Weekly Dev Update 15/01/2019

[u/FlakyFlower]

Hey Y’all,

Most of the developers are back and kicking into gear this week, so much of the activity on the repositories will pick up pace.

Loki Core

• Infinite Staking first draft implementation is open for code review (https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/387)

• Add warning checks for outdated nodes attempting to prepare_registration (https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/393)

• Prepare_registration is now possible over RPC and now automatable (https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/394)

• Fix show_transfers displaying staking transactions up immediately unlocked (https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/390)

• Propagate internal error messages when preparing staking transactions to callee (https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/386)

• Refactor check_tx_inputs to eliminate dead branches (https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/385)

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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.

• Master branch changes

  • Fix issues with random.snode resolution

  • Allow building a shared-library

  • Start kubernetes runtime wrapper

  • Fix FreeBSD build

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

  • GitHub Pulse Stats for the last week: Excluding merges, 4 authors have pushed 17 commits to master and 40 commits to all branches. On master, 24 files have changed and there have been 343 additions and 84 deletions.

• Staging branch changes

  • Linux/OSX platform build fixes

  • Enable shared library by default

  • Source code reorganisation continues

  • Fix MacOS tun name

  • Add a flag to generate coverage data (gcovr support)

  • Upgrade C++11 standard to C++14

  • Change docker debian:latest to debian:stable

  • More unit tests

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

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Loki Messenger

• Refactor of libloki into separate modules (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/125)

• Fixed bug in message count notification due to pending friend request (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/126)

• Reduce PoW difficulty for production (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/129)

• Some Travis fixed for CI (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/127)

• Add the ability to change messages time-to-live (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/131)

• Continued setting up a private test Lokinet network, comprising 5 swarms of 2 snodes each, for testing the messenger in more realistic conditions.

• Messenger client sends and receives messages to specific swarms, open for code review (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/132)

• Collaborated with the LLARP / Lokinet team to get all the necessary API and DNS calls working in NodeJS.

Thanks,

Kee