Repository Deprecated

This repository is now deprecated. However, Session Desktop is still actively developed here. This is in line with announcements from Session and the OPTF, indicating that the OPTF has handed over the stewardship of the Session Project to the Session Technology Foundation, a Swiss-based foundation dedicated to advancing digital rights and innovation.

Session Desktop

Download at getsession.org

Summary

Session integrates directly with Oxen Service Nodes, which are a set of distributed, decentralized and Sybil resistant nodes. Service Nodes act as servers which store messages offline, and a set of nodes which allow for onion routing functionality obfuscating users IP Addresses. For a full understanding of how Session works, read the Session Whitepaper.

Want to Contribute? Found a Bug or Have a feature request?

Please search for any existing issues that describe your bug in order to avoid duplicate submissions.

Submissions can be made by making a pull request to our development branch.If you don't know where to start contributing please read Contributing.md and refer to issues tagged with the Good-first-issue tag.

Supported platforms

Session requires Windows 10 or later, macOS Monterey (12) or later, or a Linux distribution with glibc 2.28 or later like Debian 10 or Ubuntu 20.04.

Build instruction

Build instructions can be found in Contributing.md.

Verifying signatures

Note: Session Desktop versions newer than 1.14.2 are signed with Jason Rhinelander's GPG key, signatures are contained in a file called signature.asc rather than signatures.asc Jason's GPG key can be found here https://github.com/jagerman.gpg and in other locations.

Get Kee's key and import it:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oxen-io/oxen-core/dev/utils/gpg_keys/KeeJef.asc
gpg --import KeeJef.asc

Get the signed hash for this release, the SESSION_VERSION needs to be updated for the release you want to verify

export SESSION_VERSION=1.6.1
wget https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/releases/download/v$SESSION_VERSION/signatures.asc

Verify the signature of the hashes of the files

gpg --verify signatures.asc 2>&1 |grep "Good signature from"

The command above should print "Good signature from "Kee Jefferys..." If it does, the hashes are valid but we still have to make the sure the signed hashes matches the downloaded files.

Make sure the two commands below returns the same hash. If they do, files are valid

sha256sum session-desktop-linux-amd64-$SESSION_VERSION.deb
grep .deb signatures.asc

Debian repository

Please visit https://deb.oxen.io/

License

Copyright 2011 Whisper Systems
Copyright 2013-2017 Open Whisper Systems
Copyright 2019-2023 The Oxen Project
Licensed under the GPLv3: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html

Attributions

The IP-to-country mapping data used in this project is provided by MaxMind GeoLite2.