Original release notes
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 https://github.com/session-foundation/session-desktop/pull/2025
- Default to stream encryption and write the stream fragment bare https://github.com/session-foundation/session-desktop/pull/1992
Other Changes
- Update Windows build info https://github.com/session-foundation/session-desktop/pull/1946
Bug Fixes
- Avoid jumping back after sending https://github.com/session-foundation/session-desktop/pull/1961
- Keep draft reply quotes per conversation https://github.com/session-foundation/session-desktop/pull/1959
- Focus composition input when typing https://github.com/session-foundation/session-desktop/pull/1956
- Allow same-name staged attachments https://github.com/session-foundation/session-desktop/pull/1950
- Support pinch-to-zoom and drag-to-pan in lightbox https://github.com/session-foundation/session-desktop/pull/1957
- Reduce update file server polling https://github.com/session-foundation/session-desktop/pull/1960
- Preserve unread state for remote deletions https://github.com/session-foundation/session-desktop/pull/1968
- Build errors with latest libsession-util-nodejs https://github.com/session-foundation/session-desktop/pull/1969
- Keep Home and End within message input https://github.com/session-foundation/session-desktop/pull/1987
- Popover position on open is measured after open https://github.com/session-foundation/session-desktop/pull/2008
- Make sure only one create/restore is in flight https://github.com/session-foundation/session-desktop/pull/2011
- Renew config message TTLs at most once an hour per swarm https://github.com/session-foundation/session-desktop/pull/2017
- Preserve colon suffixes after consecutive dots in URLs https://github.com/session-foundation/session-desktop/pull/2020
- Remember lightbox video volume https://github.com/session-foundation/session-desktop/pull/2012
- Erase group entries a config merge recreated after another device erased them https://github.com/session-foundation/session-desktop/pull/2027
- Keep a hidden conversation hidden when our own message syncs into it https://github.com/session-foundation/session-desktop/pull/2000
- Stop an in-flight poll undoing a cursor reset https://github.com/session-foundation/session-desktop/pull/2016
- Make the collapsed message bubble and its Read More button addressable https://github.com/session-foundation/session-desktop/pull/1999
- Stop the sending device counting its own message twice https://github.com/session-foundation/session-desktop/pull/1998
- Fix system-specific build issues https://github.com/session-foundation/session-desktop/pull/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.
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