session-foundation / session-desktop

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 or feature request 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 Check Session's system requirements and what platforms are supported here. Build instructions Build instructions can be found in Contributing.md. Translations Want to help us translate Session into your language? You can do so at https://getsession.org/translate! Verifying signatures **Step 1:** Add Jason's GPG key. Jason Rhinelander, a member of the Session Technology Foundation and is the current signer for all Session Desktop releases. His GPG key can be found on his GitHub and other sources. **Step 2:** Get the signed hashes for this release. needs to be updated for the release you want to verify. **Step 3:** Verify the signature of the hashes of the files. The command above should print " ". If it does, the hashes are valid but we still have to make the sure the signed hashes match the downloaded files. **Step 4:** Make sure the two commands below return the same hash for the file you are checking. If they do, file is valid. Linux macOS **Apple Silicon** **Intel** Windows **PowerShell** **Bash** Debian repository Please visit https://deb.oxen.io/ License Copyright 2011 Whisper Systems Copyright 2013-2017 Open Whisper Systems Copyright 2019-2024 The Oxen Project Copyright 2024-2025 Session Technology Foundation 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. This project uses the Lucide Icon Font, which is licensed under the ISC License.