Session
Session uses the Signal encryption protocol and the Loki blockchain’s decentralised Service Node network to provide anonymous, end-to-end encrypted messaging without relying on central servers.
Release overview:
This is a major release for Session and many changes have been made to make the application more usable and easier to maintain in the future. Some of these changes include:
- Removing friend requests
- We felt that the friend request system wasn't very intuitive. We have removed it, replacing it with the ability to block people.
- This change should significantly reduce the friction of starting a conversation with someone; you will be able to start a chat with anyone, anytime, and anyone will be able to start a chat with you.
- Improved communications
- Due to the removal of friend requests, we were able to implement a new session establishment protocol.
- Improved message sending
- Messages waiting to be sent are now persistent through application loads. This means if you send a message and immediately close Session before the message is finished sending, it will be sent automatically the next time you open the app.
- Message error handling is also improved, and you will now be able to view the cause of a send error.
- Improved multi-device
- Multi-device was proving to be very unreliable when receiving messages. This has been re-written, and multi-device message receiving should now be more reliable.
- Other reliability improvements.
Bug Fixes
Linux Flatpak
You can install the Flatpak by going here or by running:
flatpak remote-add flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak install flathub network.loki.Session
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