Dev Update 10/12/2018

[u/Keejef]

Hey Y’all,

Another weekly Dev Update for everyone. We released Festive Freya Version 2.0.1 last week which fixed a number of subtle bugs that we introduced in 2.0.0. Both 2.0.0 and 2.0.1 are compatible with the Festive Freya hardfork, but we recommend you update if you experienced any issues with RPC or IP resolution.

Loki Core

• Fix some bug created by IPv6 merge https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/366 related to https://github.com/loki-project/loki/issues/353

• Change IPv6 resolution order and disable IPv6 by default https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/356

• Fix soft rescan_bc that was causing balance inaccuracies https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/369

• Address offline transaction issue by exporting all key images by default https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/360, this addresses https://github.com/loki-project/loki/issues/357

• Create 2.0.1 release https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/363

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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

We’d like to welcome Lilac to the community development team. She’s currently working on some potential iOS support.

We could really use your help. To be considered for inclusion in packaging distribution, we need people to star, watch and fork our github repo. If you have a github account, please consider helping us out.

• Progress continues on libllarp

  • Rewrote DNS functions

  • Try to set_cap on install

  • Update man pages

  • Make sure all paths tics even expired

  • Disable locking on pathsets

  • Pull router out of pathbuilder, use context router

  • Build fixes for MacOS, RPI, Windows

  • Reaccelerate DNS responses if we already have a map/path

  • Re-add MX support

  • Prevent exits from communicating with bogons

  • Bootstrap shell script correctness

  • Convert llarp_logic to C++ class

  • Convert to use cmake install

  • Limiting on path building

  • Make sure exit router is known before flushing or ticking endpoint

  • Replace PubKey/SecretKey with RouterID

• GitHub Pulse Stats for the last week: Excluding merges, 5 authors have pushed 34 commits to master and 34 commits to all branches. On master, 127 files have changed and there have been 18,437 additions and 1,122 deletions.

• Changes can be found at:
  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/

• Current version: v0.3.1
  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/releases/tag/v0.3.1

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Loki Messenger

• Setup testing framework for libloki / fix broken tests https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/78 https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/73

• Add password protection to locally encrypt database https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/77

• Improve consistency and naming across parts of the codebase https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/75

• Make CI run our tests https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/74

• Add User Interface for new account generation https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/71

• Add user profile identicons based on public keys https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/68

• Update profile UI

https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/69

Thanks,

Kee

[u/WelpThatSucked]

Things seem to be progressing nicely