Session
Session uses the Session encryption protocol and the Oxen blockchain’s decentralised Service Node network to provide anonymous, end-to-end encrypted messaging without relying on central servers.
Release Overview
- Show a placeholder for messages this version can't process, and retain them #2025
- Default to stream encryption and write the stream fragment bare #1992
Other Changes
- Update Windows build info #1946
Bug Fixes
- Avoid jumping back after sending #1961
- Keep draft reply quotes per conversation #1959
- Focus composition input when typing #1956
- Allow same-name staged attachments #1950
- Support pinch-to-zoom and drag-to-pan in lightbox #1957
- Reduce update file server polling #1960
- Preserve unread state for remote deletions #1968
- Build errors with latest libsession-util-nodejs #1969
- Keep Home and End within message input #1987
- Popover position on open is measured after open #2008
- Make sure only one create/restore is in flight #2011
- Renew config message TTLs at most once an hour per swarm #2017
- Preserve colon suffixes after consecutive dots in URLs #2020
- Remember lightbox video volume #2012
- Erase group entries a config merge recreated after another device erased them #2027
- Keep a hidden conversation hidden when our own message syncs into it #2000
- Stop an in-flight poll undoing a cursor reset #2016
- Make the collapsed message bubble and its Read More button addressable #1999
- Stop the sending device counting its own message twice #1998
- Fix system-specific build issues #1982
Supported Platforms
Session requires Windows 10 or later, macOS Ventura (13) or later, or a Linux distribution with glibc 2.35 or later like Debian 12 or Ubuntu 22.04.
Verify Signatures
Follow the instructions here using the signature below.
Signature of release files
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Signed SHA256 hashes of release files. These are signed using Jason's GPG
key available at:
- the oxen-io/oxen-core repository, at /utils/gpg_keys/Jason.asc
- OpenPGP key servers (Jason Rhinelander <jason@session.foundation>, C4992CE7A88D4262)
- https://deb.session.foundation/public.gpg
- https://imaginary.ca/public.gpg
- https://github.com/jagerman.gpg
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