Ricochet Refresh 3.0.19 is out (and at FOSDEM)

Blueprint is the sponsor of Ricochet Refresh, an open-source project to allow private and anonymous instant messaging.

We have recently announced Ricochet-refresh 3.0.19! Over the past year we have primarily focused on build system improvements, improved dependency updates, and merging community patches.

The short list of updates from this year:

- complete re-write of the ricochet-build build system
- updated OpenSSL dependency to the 3.0.X series
- regular updates of dependencies:
  - Qt 5.15.12
  - tor 0.4.8.10
  - tor-expert-bundle 13.0.9 (pluggable transports used in Tor Browser)
    - lyrebird
    - Snowflake
    - conjure
    - webtunnel
  - OpenSSL 3.0.12
  - zlib 1.3.1
  - protobuff 3.21.12
  - nsis 3.09
- user-submitted et-EE localization (Estonian)
- native aarch64 macOS builds (aka Apple silicon)
- updated Windows installer, macOS dmg, and application icons and assets
- portable zip distribution for Windows
- migrated to rcodesign for macOS code-signing

Ricochet-Refresh 3.0.19 can be downloaded from either our Github repo or from ricochetrefresh.net

We have also been hard at work developing Gosling, a new Tor peer-to-peer authentication Rust crate which will power the future Ricochet-Refresh 4.0 series.  Come check out our Github repo!

Our hope is that this crate will allow other developers to build their own peer-to-peer Tor powered applications with the same anonymity, security, and meta-data resistance properties as Ricochet Refresh!

Interested in learning more about our plans for Ricochet Refresh and Gosling? Come and find us at FOSDEM ‘24 in Brussels, with 8000+ other representatives of the open source community.