GNUnet Messenger API: March 2024
Hello again, this month we finally got the release of GNUnet 0.21.0 and in addition we released a new release of libgnunetchat and both messenger front-ends . I tried to make sure the flatpak and snap packages work. However there were some difficulties. For example the flatpak runtime, the application uses, did not contain libportal for some reason. I needed to include that. The release of libgnunetchat caused a build issue because it required a dependency from the new meson build of GNUnet . The usage of Pipewire caused an immediate crash because of missing permissions. At the same time I worked on the flatpak manifest to make it update its dependencies automatically in the future via the external data checker that Flathub provides. public relation picture of the messenger application In the end the flatpak seems to work now. Only camera access is still not fully cooked yet. On my Librem 5 it gives a format error and fails to show an image. If no camera is connected at