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Hey, a few days ago GNUnet 0.25.0 got released with the latest changes to the CORE layer and containing the new PILS service reducing the risk of being tracked while using GNUnet over a wider area. The MESSENGER service might still have some issues working properly with these changes but I will let you know here when I implemented necessary changes to utilize the new PILS service. This will be necessary because the MESSENGER service actually requires to track peers collaborating in message exchange to some degree. It won’t be necessary to link peer identities to individual chat room members. At the same time switching networks on abstract level like walking around with your mobile device or switching from physical connection to WiFi shouldn’t cause issues, message loss or heavy disconnections. So it will be fun to tackle this! However I’m very optimistic GNUnet is going in the right direction with all this work on its fundamental layers. There are still issues underlying in the TR...

Hey, this is the last post under the topic “GNUnet Messenger API”. As mentioned last time I only had a few remaining things to implement in the messenger-cli application. So that is pretty much what I did with some small caveats. The only thing not working as planned is file sharing. Let me explain this: You can already write a file path to your text input and it will send the file. When a file gets received, you can select the message, hit ENTER and download the file. However depending on your GNUnet setup uploading a file might not work. This seems to depend on user access permissions of your selected files. The best work-around I know is to use a single-user installation for GNUnet. But I hope that this can be solved properly, so users don’t have to mess with configurations. More information about this issue can be found here . The second missing part is that you can technically download the file and progress of that will be visualized. However there’s still no opt...