Oxen Weekly Dev Update #160
Oxen released Weekly Dev Update #160 about Service Node payment batching, ONS Lookups for the block explorer, Steps forward for Lokinet macOS support & more.
Oxen Core
More work on Service Node payment batching https://github.com/darcys22/loki-core/commits/batch-sn-payments
Add ONS lookup to block explorer https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-observer/pull/6 https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-observer/pull/7/files
Lokinet
This week they primarily focused on merging client side fixes from last week’s development, as well as continuing efforts to wrangle the Lokinet macOS client to make it play nice with the relevant macOS network extension APIs — which unfortunately are rather sparsely documented.
Properly set reply intro pivot router for inbound sessions, pick random initial intro for outbound context, make sure we remove half open outbound contexts after a certain period of time https://github.com/oxen-io/lokinet/pull/1702
Rewrite checksums on icmp destination unreachable packets including inner ip header https://github.com/oxen-io/lokinet/pull/1701
Session
Session Android
Start up time optimisations https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/666
Improved open group polling performance https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/663
Translation updates https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/660
Voice message icon bug https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/659
Add message details page for failed messages https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/658
- Don’t show notification banners on home screen https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/657
Improve permissions handling https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/656
Properly Handle External Keyboard Content & Handle Text Content Shared via Intent https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/653
Session iOS
Tappable profile pictures https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/462
Disable push notifications for muted closed groups https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/461
Session Desktop
Preserve image transparency https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1784
WIP: Performance improvements with react virtualized view https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1783
Fix device linking issue https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1781
Header and conversation menus updates https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1779
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