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However, Session Desktop is still actively developed [here](https://github.com/session-foundation/session-desktop). This is in line with announcements from [Session](https://getsession.org/blog/introducing-the-session-technology-foundation) and the [OPTF](https://optf.ngo/blog/the-optf-and-session), indicating that the OPTF has handed over the stewardship of the Session Project to the [Session Technology Foundation](https://session.foundation), a Swiss-based foundation dedicated to advancing digital rights and innovation.\n\n# Session Desktop\n\n[Download at getsession.org](https://getsession.org/download)\n\n## Summary\n\nSession integrates directly with [Oxen Service Nodes](https://docs.oxen.io/about-the-oxen-blockchain/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](https://getsession.org/whitepaper).\n\u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e\n![DesktopSession](https://i.imgur.com/ydVhH00.png)\n\n## Want to Contribute? Found a Bug or Have a feature request?\n\nPlease search for any [existing issues](https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/issues) that describe your bug in order to avoid duplicate submissions. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSubmissions 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](CONTRIBUTING.md) and refer to issues tagged with the [Good-first-issue](https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22) tag.\n\n## Supported platforms\n\nSession 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.\n\n## Build instruction\n\nBuild instructions can be found in [Contributing.md](CONTRIBUTING.md).\n\n## Verifying signatures\n\nNote: 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\nJason's GPG key can be found here https://github.com/jagerman.gpg and in other locations.\n\nGet Kee's key and import it:\n\n```\nwget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oxen-io/oxen-core/dev/utils/gpg_keys/KeeJef.asc\ngpg --import KeeJef.asc\n```\n\nGet the signed hash for this release, the SESSION_VERSION needs to be updated for the release you want to verify\n\n```\nexport SESSION_VERSION=1.6.1\nwget https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/releases/download/v$SESSION_VERSION/signatures.asc\n```\n\nVerify the signature of the hashes of the files\n\n```\ngpg --verify signatures.asc 2\u003e\u00261 |grep \"Good signature from\"\n```\n\nThe command above should print \"`Good signature from \"Kee Jefferys...`\"\nIf it does, the hashes are valid but we still have to make the sure the signed hashes matches the downloaded files.\n\nMake sure the two commands below returns the same hash.\nIf they do, files are valid\n\n```\nsha256sum session-desktop-linux-amd64-$SESSION_VERSION.deb\ngrep .deb signatures.asc\n```\n\n## Debian repository\n\nPlease visit https://deb.oxen.io/\u003cbr/\u003e\n\n## License\n\nCopyright 2011 Whisper Systems\u003cbr/\u003e\nCopyright 2013-2017 Open Whisper Systems\u003cbr/\u003e\nCopyright 2019-2023 The Oxen Project\u003cbr/\u003e\nLicensed under the GPLv3: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html\u003cbr/\u003e\n\n## Attributions\n\nThe IP-to-country mapping data used in this project is provided by [MaxMind GeoLite2](https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geolite2-free-geolocation-data).\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Foxen-io%2Fsession-desktop","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Foxen-io%2Fsession-desktop","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Foxen-io%2Fsession-desktop/lists"}