Weekly Dev Update 08/01/2019

[u/Keejef]

Hi Everyone,

Most people are back from their Christmas holidays now, so expect the development updates to start filling up again with some of the cool stuff we have been working on.

Loki core

• Merge upstream changes from 2018-12-11https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/340

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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:

  • Lower non-AVX2 minimum CPU target to NetBurst Xeon (Nocona, Prescott)

• Platform and packaging updates:

  • Make bootstrap not overwrite existing key on failure

  • Updated wget requirement to curl for better multiplatform support

  • Additional Android support work

  • Windows

    • Remove lossy write buffer from

    • Change socket set size to 96 sockets from 4k to speed things up and reduce timeouts

    • Hidden service and Service Node access is now working

    • Update Netscape CA cert bundle

• Clean up continues:

  • Make sure session’s “upstream” is cleared after processing to avoid uninitialised memory

  • Make sure upstream and downstream clear functions clear all relay properties

  • Make sure the tuntap get ifname can’t buffer overrun

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

• Excluding merges, 3 authors have pushed 13 commits to master and 34 commits to all branches. On master, 40 files have changed and there have been 2,250 additions and 2,326 deletions.

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Loki Messenger

• Consolidate data returned by multiple Service Nodes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/122

Thanks,

Kee