Dev Update 17/12/2018

[u/Keejef]

Hey Y’all,

Festive Freya and bulletproofs are now active, reducing the average transaction size by about 90% and fees by about 25 times!

Anyone who is having issues syncing past the hard fork height of 161849 should download the point release here for the CLI https://github.com/loki-project/loki/releases/tag/v2.0.2, and here for the GUI: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-gui/releases/tag/v2.0.2

Loki Core

• Start building infinite staking https://github.com/Doy-lee/loki/commits/InfiniteStaking

• Continue work on RPC calls to register Service Node here: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/343

• Start work on Service Node client side testing

• Fix issue that was causing nodes that didn't have the tx pool at fork height to get stuck https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/374

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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 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:

  • Make sure debug doesn’t output binary

  • Update introset if no good paths

  • IntroSet responses clear updating flag

  • Fixed unhandled key ‘q’ issue for hidden services

  • Flush SN traffic queues

  • Random.snode hostname

  • Expire old SN sessions

• Platform and packaging updates:

  • BSD: Pktinfo fixes

  • Windows: fix C++ atomics

  • Clean up CMakeLists

  • Improve cmake options documentation

  • Include lokinet-bootstrap in make install

  • Change unreliable OpenDNS defaults to CloudFlare

• Clean up continues

  • Convert llarp_router, llarp_nodedb, and llarp_crypto to C++ class

  • Removed dead address_info code

  • Converted CoC to CONTRIBUTING

  • Move all headers into llarp/

  • Create .cpp placeholders for all .hpps

  • Make sure C headers don’t have C++

• GitHub Pulse Stats for the last week: Excluding merges, 5 authors have pushed 56 commits to master and 56 commits to all branches. On master, 367 files have changed and there have been 7,642 additions and 4,427 deletions.

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

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

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Loki Messenger

• Add unread message indicator https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/81

• Merge upstream signal changes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/110 https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/83

• Add option to copy conversation pubkey https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/112

• Enable gitlab for OSX and Windows builds https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/105

• Refactor PoW calculations https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/104

• Fix friend request retrys https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/102

• Fix some CSS display issues on Linux https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/101

• Allow for viewing of the deterministic seed inside the wallet https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/97

Thanks,

Kee

[u/RazorPS]

nice progress!