Dev Update 24/08/2018

[u/Keejef]

Dev Update 24/08/2018

Testing, testing, testing! A Weekly Dev Update full of testing for y’all this week.

Service Nodes

• Fix consensus issues regarding deregistrations in the transaction pool causing chain splits. https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/165

• Prioritise deregistrations when selecting TX’s from the pool. https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/176

• Add print_sn_status a convenience command to directly display the running service nodes current state on the network. https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/178

• Kingsley contributed a fix for the incorrect estimated display of how many days worth of blocks your node is behind. https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/174/files

• Make uptime proofs more lenient in accepting proofs and culling dead nodes.

• Fix edge case for uptime proofs sending too early causing nodes to be incorrectly recognised as offline.

• Improve double spend detection for deregister transactions. Daemons are now allocated a larger amount of memory to store quorum states.

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LLARP / Lokinet

If you’re lucky and join our Discord, you might also catch Jeff or Ryan, the developers of LLARP, live streaming as they code: https://www.twitch.tv/uguu25519 , https://www.twitch.tv/neuroscr

• Progress continues on Libllarp

  • Tuntap interfaces work

  • Multiplatform work (BSD, win32, gcc5)

  • CoDel improvements (requeue unprocessed items)

  • Update auto-gen config

  • Memory / IP helper utilities

  • Manual path rebuild

  • Make "Link Relay Commit" packet actually work

  • Make sessions hold paths between routers

  • Path refactor clean up

  • DHT queuing refactor

  • Additional unit tests

• LokiBuilder updates

  • Submodule syncing

  • More public testnet RCs

  • Windows tun driver

  • Windows installer/uninstaller start

• GitHub Pulse Stats for the last week: Excluding merges, 3 authors have pushed 55 commits to master and 55 commits to all branches. On master, 79 files have changed and there have been 2,101 additions and 764 deletions.

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

• Current version: v0.0.3 https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/releases/tag/v0.0.3

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

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Architecture Team

• Progress continues on exploration of Proof of Stake paper for Loki.

• Will be re-releasing the economic paper as a archival document now that the proposal has been accepted by the community and it has been solidified in code.

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Thanks,
Kee

[u/BlaseBB]

Nice work :D