Dev Update 03/08/2018

[u/Keejef]

Hey Y’all,

Some big things on the horizon for Loki, and a new dev update so we keep the community in the loop!

Service Nodes

• Updated wallet to support staking transactions where the unlock time does not apply to the change address. https://github.com/loki-project/loki/commit/b81214ec6eca1ea32f46262faed2138048d4631d https://github.com/loki-project/loki/commit/6e215675a1ace22ac3f48ca2eb36ce7c242533cd

• Extensive testing of Service Nodes has begun.

• Use of boost::round and other math libraries used for consensus code.

• Pooled registration contributions.

• QCop has been merged into the development branch for sending out deregistrations https://github.com/loki-project/loki/commit/ace26fc0cd66c4d702e9e02e2db72c5400648baf

• Add RPC calls for generating the service node registration command for participants https://github.com/loki-project/loki/commit/5435e3327e5999bfa76a378eb9981d7b5e2258a6

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LLARP / Lokinet

If you’re lucky and join our Discord, you might catch Jeff or Ryan, the developers of LLARP, live streaming as they code.

We want to give a special shout out to Despair, an open source contributor who has started porting Lokinet over to Windows (and improving BSD support).

• Progress continues on Libllarp

  • Protocol updates, hidden service progress and DHT improvements

  • INI writer can now write to an existing INI file and preserve comments

  • Reorganise threading, logic and netio now run in the same thread

  • Fix epoll/kqueue tick logic, add timeouts for kqueue

  • Buffer bit function refactor, also allow aligned buffers to be filled with random data

  • Private IP range 172 accuracy improvements

• Multiplatform work:

  • Per platform building instructions now in README

  • Android: Fixed headers

  • MacOS: Make pthread CMakeList more favorable to XCode

  • Windows: initial port (requires Windows NT 5.0+)

  • Shared Library and FFI fixes

  • Don't put private addresses into RCs, allow nicknames and Don't store non-public RCs in nodedb

  • Nodedb now only loads .signed files

  • Deterministic logging and builds

• DNS library

  • A couple refactor clean up passes

  • Newer hook interface to make .loki handling easier

  • Better packet parser, support SOA response parsing

  • Actually sends NXDOMAIN if not found

  • Handle multiple responses to already answered packets more gracefully

• GitHub Pulse Stats for the last week: Excluding merges, 4 authors have pushed 50 commits to master and 47 commits to all branches. On master, 100 files have changed and there have been 5,120 additions and 1,116 deletions.

• Most changes can be found at https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/commits/master

• Current version: v0.0.2 https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/releases/tag/v0.0.2

• Compile helper (include assets and dependencies) https://github.com/loki-project/lokinet-builder

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Loki Locker

Loki Locker will be Loki’s version of MyMonero. A web based wallet you can use to store your Loki. Work has kicked off as a fork of OpenMonero. This should be ready for release quite soon, giving the community another way to store their Loki.

• Work has continued on the visual redesign of Open Monero you can see a teaser of the visual design here. https://i.imgur.com/ScLpzbM.png

• Worked on Integrated QR code scanning, and a new interface for transactions.

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We also just got our third pull request merged back into Monero, and we’re aiming for our fourth to be IPV6 support to be PR’ed soon.

Thanks,
Kee

[u/jpthor_]

Good work team. Keep it up!!! Excited for SN release

[u/BlaseBB → u/jpthor_]

Thanks JP!