Recently there we announced some big news with Chris taking over as CEO, and with 2022 quickly coming to a close, it’s an appropriate time for all the big decision-makers at the Oxen Labs to come together with the community to answer questions, discuss the future, and get ready for another big year. Find more information about the event here: https://oxen.io/blog/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38AMvywdZUs

This week the Session desktop team released 1.7.2 —focused on fixing a bunch of small quality of life issues, such as timestamp issues and messaging highlighting. The Session mobile team continued to work on WebRTC calling, this week honing in on switching between video and voice calls, as well as the general UX of the calling experience. The Lokinet team built a nodejs wrapper for liblokinet, which ticks off another essential step towards liblokinet being ready for deployment in Session desktop. The Oxen core team worked on wallet3, making further progress on key derivation. The Oxen core team also worked on the Session open group server, moving ever closer to finishing up with the database schema changes, which will allow increased flexibility for SOGS operators. Read the full update here: https://oxen.io/blog/weekly-dev-update-169 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk9rztGbi_8