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GNUnet Messenger API: May

Hello, In April I could announce the release of the underlying chat library and this time I can happily announce that the GTK client got released . The first official release of the messenger-gtk application is 0.7.0 which might look a bit weird but the version numbering was inherited from the previous prototype cadet-gtk . So the actual release date (tagging the code in the repository) was pretty close after my last report in April but I still waited for the official announcement on gnunet.org because I wanted a proper packaging for users to test it out. That’s why we not only have tarballs available for libgnunetchat and messenger-gtk on the FTP server to install everything from source but you can also test out a flatpak hosted on flathub.org . From my testing so far there are still some issues regarding connectivity which need to be addressed in GNUnet itself but also crashes which are likely caused by the GUI code. So don’t expect a fully polished experience yet. But I was defi