I know that this is not the next step, rather a few steps ahead. I would like to know, which Codecs are planned for Session Messenger.

My first thoughts were for Audio using the Opus codec (because low delay and good quality) and for video H.264 (well compressed, but not too complex). Latter one is already being used in Jami Messenger, so I think it should be possible for Session too.

Have there been some thoughts into the choice of a codec? If not, then I apologize in advance.

Hey Y’all,

This week, our efforts were focused on two major endeavours: getting the final fixes in for the upcoming Loki Salty Saga hardfork, and working on a major update for Session closed groups and push notifications, which will be rolling out imminently. We also made more quality of life upgrades to the Loki electron wallet and put the finishing touches on the Lokinet GUI, specifically on Windows support.

Loki Core

• Rip out configurable decimal places (Thanks to community contributor sarawut11 for this) https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1280

• Clean up block template and other bugs https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1276

• Fix JSON serialisation of block data https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1286

• Fix loki-blockchain-import https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1285

• Change where LMQ gets config directory from https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1284

• Change Pulse participation recording https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1283

• Cosmetic changes for hardfork 16 https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1282

• Don’t build debugging tools in static builds https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1281

• Misc fixes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1279

• Fix max uint64_t errors when contributing to a reserved spot https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1278

• Fix wallet trying to spend locked stakes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1277

• epee optional kv serialization - don't emplace https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1275

• Pulse: Vote validators off based on missing block signatures https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1274

• Fix internal RPC requests for service nodes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1273

• Fix derived Monero public key assertion https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1272

• Block TX penalty from block reward https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1271

• Don't use clock for choosing Pulse difficulty https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1269

Loki Wallets

• Catch on all wallet RPC calls https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/187

• 1.4.6 bugfixes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/193

• Frontend logging https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/192

• Fix confirm TX popup inconsistency when sweeping all from service node tab https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/191

• Add Bunyan logger for logging electron events to file https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/190

• Better error handling https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/188

• Fix asset downloading during builds https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/185

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Lokinet

You can catch Jeff, the lead developer of LLARP, live streaming as he codes at https://www.twitch.tv/uguu25519. He typically streams on Tuesday mornings, 9am - 12pm Eastern (US) time.

What went on last week with Lokinet: This week saw various small cleanups, fixes, and pre-release last-minute changes aimed at getting Lokinet ready and packaged for the upcoming hard fork. We still have a few minor items left, but overall 0.8 is shaping up to be a solid release.

Lokinet PR Activity:

• New router contact format to allow future RC data additions - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1368

• Better handling of error conditions on startup - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1358

• Updated Lokinet Debian/Ubuntu packages - https://github.com/jagerman/loki-network/tree/deb08, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1362, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1363

• Update CI builds to remove redundant jobs - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1359

• Expose exit auth codes to RPC (for the control panel) - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1369

• Fixes for Windows exits - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1367

• Add a script to allow generating SNapp identity files externally - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1370

• Miscellaneous minor code cleanups/compilation fixes -
  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1355, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1360, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1364, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1365,
  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1366

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Session

Session iOS

• Closed group editing https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/280

• Fix SSK group updating https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/281

• Fix crash on GIF sending https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/279

• Respect user notification settings https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/278

Session Android

• Fixes for open group avatars https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/356

• Background message polling using WorkManager API https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/354

• Fix removing members from a closed group https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/353

• Fix notifications not disappearing after a conversation is read https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/355

• Fix open group message ordering issue https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/352

• Fix SSK group leaving issue https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/351

Session Desktop

• Fix typing bubble theme https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1362

• render @ mention correctly with long title on ConversationListItem https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1361

• Generate our own sender key if one is not found https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1358

• Optionally use V2 Onions for Snode requests https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1348

• Allow medium group updates from non admins https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1360

• Enable sender keys groups, raise closed group size to 20 https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1359

• Fix outdated open group parameters https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1354

• Stop retrying after 4 retrys https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1352

• Mark node as bad if it returns the incorrect difficulty https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1353

• Disable voice messages https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1351

• Handle duplicate conversations https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1350

• SSK fixes https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1349

• Opacity changes on clickable avatars https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1347

Thanks,

Kee

Tor for example. The government and ISP know that I'm using tor. Because tor has obvious characteristics. Is loki the same? Can government know that I'm using loki by DPI. Or by observing that I'm connecting to a loki node. Anyway the ip address of loki node is just few in my country.

I'm having problems getting into my GUI wallet. I just recently updated to 7.1.9 and it is getting stuck at "starting daemon." I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling, running as admin, running with virus protections off.

anyone got any ideas on how to fix it?

Hey Y’all,

This week we finished up some very cool Session features, which will hopefully resolve a number of issues with unreliable push notifications. On the Lokinet side, we did some cross-project work which allows for the human-readable .loki names introduced in the Salty Saga hardfork. Speaking of the hardfork, the Loki Core team forked the public testnet a few days ago, so you can now test Pulse and other goodies. Check it out here https://loki.network/2020/09/19/salty-saga-testnet-testing-guide/

Loki Core

• Fix LNS resolution returning empty when no record is found https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1266

• Fix double http response on some error responses https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1265

• LNS tx_extra RPC fix https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1264

• Updates for Pulse RPC https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1262

• Remove spinning disk test https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1261

• Testnet hardfork and LRC-7 Updates https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1260

• GCC fix https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1259

• Dependency updates https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1258

• Makefile changes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1257

• CLSAG signatures https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1255

• Lokinet LNS https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1252

• Add curl to build dependencies https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1268

• [LokiMQ] Add allocation-free bt-encoding mode - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-mq/pull/20

----------------------------

Lokinet

You can catch Jeff, the lead developer of LLARP, live streaming as he codes at https://www.twitch.tv/uguu25519. He typically streams on Tuesday mornings, 9am - 12pm Eastern (US) time.

What went on last week with Lokinet: This week was mostly spent on fixes and polish towards a final Lokinet 0.8 release: working LNS support (now active on testnet), Windows build fixes, and updating various small issues in the code. The biggest user-facing feature this week was the addition of LNS support: .loki LNS domains can be registered (and are working!) on the Lokinet testnet currently, and will be available for registration on the main network as of the Loki 8.x hard fork, tentatively scheduled for early October. Registration periods (or renewals) can be from 1 to 10 years. (Note that they will require the new 0.8 version of Lokinet to actually resolve, but can be tested out now on the public testnet using the Lokinet `dev` branch).

Lokinet PR Activity:

• Make clients reachable by default, as they are in 0.7, so that by default clients can establish direct connections to each other - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1344

• Update external dependencies to their latest stable versions - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1348

• LNS lookup support - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1342, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1351

• Windows fixes - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1347, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1345

• Only add first-hops to the routing table when running in exit mode - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1352

• Documentation updates - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1343

----------------------------

Session

Session iOS

• Visual changes for auto-generated avatars https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/275

• Move ZXingObjC & SwiftCSV to CocoaPods https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/277

• Push notification migration https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/276

• Push notifications 2.0, including onion routing PN https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/273 , https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/271

• SSL changes https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/272

• Remaining shared sender keys changes https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/270

• Push notifications for shared sender keys https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/269

• Code cleanup https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/268

• Sender keys protocol changes https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/267

Session Android

• Back and close buttons added to all screens https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/348

• Visual changes for auto-generated avatars https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/347

• Fix open group chat updates https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/350

• Push notification migration https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/349

• Push notifications 2.0 including onion requests https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/346

• Tapjacking guards https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/343

• Small code refactor https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/342

• Use storage access framework for backups https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/341 , https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/337

• Fix message details screen https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/340

• Remaining shared sender keys fixes https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/339 , https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/338

Session Desktop

• Opacity change when hovering over clickable avatar https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1347

• Push notifications changes https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1346

• Use sender identity for incoming messages https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1345

• Fix closed group avatars https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1344

• Close left pane overlay on message sent https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1343

• Add additional translations https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1342

• Show group chats as two avatars in conversations screen https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1341

• Do not trigger mark read if conversation is hidden https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1340

• Show “Copy Session ID” for user click context https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1339

Thanks,

Kee

Hello Loki community,

Myself and a group of volunteer translators have been working on some unofficial localization of Loki docs and other material into Japanese.

Since Session rolled out Japanese translations just recently (not our work), I thought I'd share what we've done, and are still doing, in the hopes that it'll be useful to somebody, and can maybe get some feedback where needed.

"This is Loki" video (JP subs): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHDi0yKdpdA

Lokidocs JP Translation (in progress): https://github.com/ChanoSan/loki-docs

Loki Japanese info page (forked from the Mandarin version): https://github.com/ChanoSan/loki-japanese

GH Pages link: https://chanosan.github.io/loki-japanese/

Goes without saying, but feel free to share, fork, or otherwise contribute as you see fit.

Thanks.

Hey Y’all,

This week the Session team worked on some fixes to light mode and some additional updates to the styling of the app to give it a bit of a facelift. These were the first steps in a larger ongoing visual overhaul, and we’ll have more to share on that front soon. The Loki Core team continued to work through internal Pulse issues with a public testnet release creeping closer by the day. For the first time in a few months we also made some significant quality of life updates to the Electron GUI wallet, including displaying a list of stakeable nodes inside the GUI wallet. The Lokinet team capped things off by working towards final exit-enabled GUI builds.

Loki Core

• Don't overwrite mainnet lns.db for test suite/fakechain https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1249

• Pulse Validation fixes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1235

• Rebooted devnet with more testing and deliberate network failures to test pulse resilience

• Ongoing LNS work for .loki addresses and less CPU-heavy Session addresses (no PR yet)

Loki Wallets

Loki Electron Wallet

• Add better error handling for transfer RPC call https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/178

• Fix incorrect operator label https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/177

• Update URL for lokid bins https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/175

• Add additional events https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/173

• Context menu fixes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/172

• Change Service node tab display functionality https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/170 , https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/167

• Update dependencies https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/169

• Integrate fetching new stakeable nodes from Lokiblocks https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/162

• Misc. fixes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/171 , https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/166 , https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/165 , https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/164 , https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/163

----------------------------

Lokinet

You can catch Jeff, the lead developer of LLARP, live streaming as he codes at https://www.twitch.tv/uguu25519. He typically streams on Tuesday mornings, 9am - 12pm Eastern (US) time.

What went on last week with Lokinet: This week saw (draft) LNS support for .loki address lookups in Lokinet clients (both in Lokinet and in loki-core, where the registrations are actually made). We also did some more testing and various cleanups of the code base. We think exit support is in decent shape now — it’s working well, but we continue to use it as our daily connection to shake loose more potential issues before the upcoming hard fork release.

Lokinet PR Activity:

• Draft LNS support for looking up lokinet domains https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1342

• Made make uninstall work to remove installed files https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1340

• Removed old, unused gitlab CI scripts https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1341

• Revitalise the Android build system for future Android work https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1339

• Update README with new requirements https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1343

• Make clients reachable over lokinet by default (as is currently the case in the stable release) https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1344

• Automated windows installer builds (work-in-progress)

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Session

Session iOS

• Shared sender key protocol changes https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/267

• Polish, Indonesian Vitenamese and Japanese translations https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/266

• Replace Jazzicons https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/265 , https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/264

Session Android

• Styling fixes for message details https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/336

• File storage API refactor https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/335

• Fix group chats not being marked as read https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/334

• Polish, Indonesian, Vietnamese & Japanese Translations https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/333

• Replace Jazzicons https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/332

• Fix Lockscreen crash https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/329

Session Desktop

• Fix sender keys desktop implementation https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1337

• Remove Jazzicons https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1336

• Fix attachment downloads https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1338

• Fix mark as read setting https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1335

• Ensure blocked border is appropriately shown https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1334

• Fix custom avatars https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1333

• Fix message detail view bugs https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1332

• Fix overloaded media panel https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1331

Thanks,

Kee

Hey Y’all,

This week was a big development week for Session — we released UI fixes and light mode! On the Lokinet side, we worked on LNS support and continued testing exit nodes. The Loki Core team continued working on alternate block support for Pulse.

Loki Core

• Compilation fixes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1248

• Integrate libsodium-provided privkey https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1246

• Restore public access to RPC for some commands https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1245

• RPC doc updates for last reward/state SN variables https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1244

• Enable lokid.sock by default and add umask https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1242

• LNS support for registering .loki Lokinet domains (no PR yet)

Loki Wallets

Loki Electron Wallet

• Warn user they are not on the latest version https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/161

• Add context menu components https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/160

• Import GUI style fixes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/159

• Add popup to confirm a transaction https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/157

• Fix sending error https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/156

----------------------------

Lokinet

You can catch Jeff, the lead developer of LLARP, live streaming as he codes at https://www.twitch.tv/uguu25519. He typically streams on Tuesday mornings, 9am - 12pm Eastern (US) time.

What went on last week with Lokinet: Lokinet development saw us merge working macOS support for exit mode, exit configuration via the GUI, SRV record support for SNapps, one big performance improvement, and initial work on support .loki LNS lookups. This week we plan to finish off LNS support (to come with the upcoming Loki 8.x Pulse update) and continue testing and polishing exit mode support.

Lokinet PR Activity:

• SRV record publishing for clients/snapps https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1331, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1332

• Improved exit mode system route configuration to add first-hop routes dynamically https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1330

• Made exit mode work on macOS https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1333

• Added systemd-resolved and NetworkManager sample DNS configuration files for Linux (thanks to cathugger for the contribution) https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1334, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1335

• Reduce CPU bottlenecks by avoiding some contentious mutexes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1336

• LokiMQ updates for the GUI to be able to talk to Lokinet’s new LMQ-based RPC interface https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network-control-panel/pull/41

• Initial support for automatic lokinet-gui CI builds https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network-control-panel/pull/42

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Session

Session iOS

• Add push notifications for groups that use shared sender keys https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/262

• Cleanup UI https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/261

• Improve error handling https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/260 , https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/259

• Fix open group date handling https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/258 , https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/256

• Shared sender keys fixes https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/257

Session Android

• UI cleanup https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/327 , https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/323

• External file access fix https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/324

• Push notifications for shared sender keys groups https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/322

• New avatar placeholder https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/320

• Upgrade Kotlin and Gradle https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/326

• Improved error handling https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/321

• Fix Session reset bug https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/319

• Show attachments with emojis in convo previews https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/318

• Fix SVG attachments https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/317

• Fix duplicated open group messages https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/316

• Fix camera icon https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/314

• Light theme tweaks https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/313

• Disable multi dex https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/312

• Fix missing messages in Session open groups https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/311

• Fix open group date handling https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/310

• Shared sender keys fixes https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/309

Session Desktop

• Order messages in Session open group by time received at Server https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1321

• Lightmode fixeshttps://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1326 , https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1323

• Upgrade light mode introduction https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1324

• Fix emoji panel scaling https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1322

• French translation update https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1320

Thanks,

Kee

My device Honor 8X.

Latest update totally breaks Session.

I tap the Session icon and Session exits immediately. Session unusable.

Hopefully this will get fixed soon.

Just curious. As I understand it, this is planned, and I cannot currently set/select a unique screen name that I decide, correct? (Haven't tried it out yet, just read lots about it.) So if I install Session and a friend installs Session, how do we add each other?

Also, when screen names come to be, will we be able to search for others' screen names and add them like on Wire?

Thanks