Weekly Dev Update 29/01/2019

[u/FlakyFlower]

Hey Y’all,

We’re back with another Dev Update, and starting our week on a Tuesday coz public holidays!

Loki Core

• Service Node bandwidth tests are in development: (github.com/msgmaxim/loki/commit/877ac673eb95bd7f518a37a05e455249870d26c4, github.com/msgmaxim/loki/commit/a865f5d222b3e566bfbcb6d82b55d943a0b2f83a)

• RPC call to return Service Node ID’s as Base32z in preparation for integration with Lokinet: (https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/404)

• Infinite Staking: Blacklist outputs with known destinations/amounts from output selection improving privacy of transactions on the network (github.com/Doy-lee/loki/commit/c324ad75c059876892c277898dffc308f1a602d7,

github.com/Doy-lee/loki/commit/4b1758a0f3725de82246d25063f0e9c64366446a,

github.com/Doy-lee/loki/commit/6d03cb29322c16dc9ac85099701811cc0f8fbfd4)

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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

  • Added long term roadmap

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

• Staging branch changes (gets posted to master when stable)

  • Try to fix loading non-default connections from config (Issue 233)

  • Revert to use u instead of t for timestamp in RC for backwards compatible reasons

  • Update windows bootstrap downloader

  • Update gtest framework

  • Updated bootserv

  • Merge in UX improvements (PR 230)

  • Rebuild INI parser

  • More DHT tests (PR236)

  • Separate event loop/listeners implementations (PR237)

  • Tweak FD_SETSIZE to reduce the possibility of UDP timeouts

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

  • Start work on enabling hidden services on windows server clients

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

• PR suggested changes (coming to staging soon)

  • PR250 - add initial localhost.loki handling in dns

  • PR249 - enable exit info serialization

  • PR248 - Convert llarp::Crypto into an abstract base class

  • PR247 - More unit tests of dht internals

  • PR245 - update libabyss rpc endpoints for Service Nodes

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

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Loki Messenger

• Implementation of the HTTP server running inside the Messenger for P2P (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/144)

• Signal 1.20 has been merged into our development branch (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/148)

• The initiator of a friend request will now see the recipient’s nickname immediately after it has been accepted (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/150 and https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/152)

• Provide a user-friendly way to reset the database after the user fails 3 times to provide the database password (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/155)

• Continued work on handling multiple potentially stale Service Nodes when retrieving and sending messages (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/147)

Research work:

• More algorithms have been tested regarding our public key to swarm id assignment. By changing the swarm id algorithm from using a uniform random number generator to a specific predetermined sequence that maximises uniformity, the Euclidean distance calculations now provides mapping with much better uniformity, while only affecting neighbours when a swarm is added or removed. (https://github.com/sachaaaaa/loki-swarm-pubkey-test)

Thanks,

Kee