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    • 2025.02 LEAP VPN Release

    Timing

    • Wk1:10.21 Scoping and Dev
    • Wk2-5: 10.28: Dev
    • Wk3: Invite system testing
    • Wk4: Decongestion testing
    • Wk6: 12.02 Testing and release

    Overview

    Circumvention Tech: We will create automated uploads for reports and finalize and deploy the dashboard toolchain to improve our measurement system. We will end KCP tests and initiate a four-week Quic field testing cycle of Quic+Hopping and Quic solo. CSOs will be contacted and give invite codes to pass to their users.

    Desktop client release: We will work on an update of Bitmask Multi-Provider client. This release will introduce beta support for using an invite code during the onboarding process to connect to a provider for dev testing. Additionally, small UX improvements, specifically in the sidebar and topbar will enhance the overall user experience. And work will continue on the the automatic updater.

    Android release: We will add the ability to use invite codes via inputting a url or scanning a QR code as part of the onboarding process. API V5 integration will be completed. Multiple bug will be fixed, and a new circuvention focused UX implemented in settings. The app store will have new translations, copy and screenshots.

    Platform release: We added obfscated discovery (The Introducer) to lilypad. We added to lilypad the ability to to use obfs4 via QUIC. We implemented the ability to run gateways on different ports to ward against protocol blocking by port. We have standardised deployment code for Circumvention Technologies: kcp, bridge, and introduced QUIC as a new CT - Tagged release 2.4.0 https://0xacab.org/leap/container-platform/lilypad/-/tagsand. Work to finalize the api v5 workflow is complete and tested with android.

    Several complete tear-downs and redeployments of recent changes to staging and production environment for a new provider, troubleshooting the bucket system which will allow us to delegate specific gateways to specific groups, and found a bug on gateway selection endpoint(/gateways) in menshen(api backend) that was intefering with gateway selection. Fixing the Integration tests after the migration to podman and upstream gitlab-runner instance changes.

    Tunnel-telemetry Improvements For increased sharability, we will create ability to submit field testing measurements to OONI collector

    CIRCUMVENTION TECH

    Provider Overview: https://nc.riseup.net/index.php/f/2369429

    DEVELOPMENT

    FIELD TESTING

    Experimental Track

    • Deploy Quic on a bridge server with a different port
    • Configure and build Quic-compatible clients and debug
    • Quic: field test

    Using Bitmask

    • Setup ft.demo.bitmask.net or other url
    • Reach out to CSO, proposing to use our latest Bitmask prior to invite code

    ANDROID

    INVITE SYSTEM

    The Invite system will allow use of an invite code to establish connections with circumvention providers. It requires: 1) APIV5 implemented on the platform and clients, 2) The "Introducer", a new proxy tech used for circumvention tech providers to protect the discovery process. In addition a Bucket system which creates resilency in the case of burnt bridges will be created, but is not neccessary to begin use. For desktop we will begin dev on the required bitmask multi-provider.

    APIV5

    INTRODUCER

    BUCKET SYSTEM - INVITE TOKEN HANDLING

    LOAD BALANCING & OPTIMIZATION

    Working to ease congestion of gateways is taking the following form:

    GEO-LOCATION

    Sending the country code in apiv5 (bitmask-core) allows us to better distribute the load of the gateways. Currently the country code is fetched, but not yet used, as the backend part was missing in the past.

    PLATFORM / MENSHEN

    • Add custom STUN server to provider.json (menshen#54 (closed)) --> ask peanut: is this on your plate?

    BITMASK CORE

    GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS

    PLATFORM

    DESKTOP

    INFRASTRUCTURE

    ANDROID UX

    ANDROID BUG FIXES

    PUBLIC FACE IMPROVEMENTS