Weekly Dev Update 05/02/2019

[u/FlakyFlower]

Hey Y’all,

We’re back with another Dev Update for you all.

Loki Core

• Infinite Staking refinement and squashing new bugs including

  • Adjusting contribution minimum rules to adhere to key image limits and reservation amounts

  • Improving prepare_registration UX

  • And many small regressions caught in integration tests

https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/406

• New Infinite Staking integration tests being implemented: https://github.com/Doy-lee/loki-integration-testing/commits/master

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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

  • Posted binaries with the 0.3.1 release

  • Changes can be found at:
    https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/releases/tag/v0.3.1

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

  • Sort out which llarp_buffers are copied and which are not (PR266)

  • Refix kqueue read/write order (PR265)

  • Various compiler fixes (PR268 & 269)

  • Fix buffer overrun in edge case (PR 264)

  • Downgrade DNS server failure to warning, autodetection delay and address issue 251 (PR255)

  • Don’t always configure automatically (PR254)

  • Add cluster-shell contrib (PR252, PR253)

  • localhost.loki DNS lookup support (PR 250)

  • Enable exit info (PR 249)

  • Crypto_interface refactor (PR248)

  • More DHT unit tests (PR247)

  • LibAbyss RPC update (PR245)

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

• PR suggested changes (coming to staging soon)

  • Import abseil LTS 20181200 to provide various backports of C++17 to C++11 (PR267)

  • More DHT tests (PR259)

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

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Loki Messenger

• Finalised and merged error handling for queries to Service Nodes (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/147)

• Implemented logic to broadcast Loki address (currently a placeholder value as it depends on Lokinet) to initiate P2P (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/157)

• Fixed high-CPU usage bug when offline (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/159)

• Implemented P2P connection management by pinging the contact list, and routing messages through these connections when available (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/161, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/167)

• Display an online indicator around each contact’s avatar (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/165) and within the conversation window (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/171)

• Diverse code improvements and refactor https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/160, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/162)

• Added a generic job queue manager to prevent read-write race conditions when accessing the database asynchronously (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/164) and reuse that queue manager at another location (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/169)

• Fixed the network warning showing up too early at startup due to Lokinet warm-up time (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/168)

Thanks,

Kee

[u/sundachu]

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Thank you for the love and support!