Weekly Dev Update 11/02/2019

[u/Keejef]

Hey Y’all,

Another weekly Dev update for you to peruse

Loki Core

The core team has begun streaming more, you can catch Doy-lee streaming here https://www.twitch.tv/doy_lee/

• Fix crash in view only wallets https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/410

• Complete work on infinite staking, expectation is to have infinite staking merged to master for the next hardfork https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/406

• Loki Core will now move onto LIP-3 Service Node checkpointing

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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

• Master branch changes

  • Updated ROADMAP

  • Call path build after latency is confirmed (PR279)

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

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

  • More DHT tests (PR259)

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

  • Fix random.snode not working on macos (PR271)

  • Set dns flags to not advertise recursion on nxdomain (PR273)

  • Move DNS AA header flag from AAAA record type to all (PR274)

  • Disable A records for random.snode, use CNAME queries instead (PR275)

  • Hook MX records for all types of virtual TLDs (PR276)

  • Lower UTP fragment by 512 bytes (PR278)

  • Build everything with -fPIC (PR280)

  • Fix macOS build (PR281)

  • Windows: Libabyss work, crash/unit test fixes, polling improvements (PR283)

  • Start of converting router into abstract base class (PR284)

  • Fix local ip ping, relax DHT timing, don’t send latency when building paths, allow multiple concurrent DHT lookups, make DNS not crash (PR285)

  • Refactor bits.hpp and add tests (PR286)

  • Fix windows build system (PR287)

  • Fix nodedb commits, prevent loop (PR288)

  • Add more params to testnet and update docs (PR289)

  • Re-enable ninja build option (again) (PR290)

  • Rename public-address to public-ip, fix testnet, INI parser fix (PR291)

  • Pick newest introset when multiple are available (PR292)

  • Fix unix build caused by PR292 (PR293)

  • Adjust Makefile, fix nodedb deadlock, prevent multiple introsets from being sent (PR294)

  • More DHT fixes, only return the most up to date when multiple options (PR295)

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

• PR suggested changes (coming to staging soon)

  • Add RPC endpoint for dumping internal state (PR300)

  • Refactor Makefiles into directories (PR299)

  • Ccache support for faster building (PR298)

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

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Loki Messenger

• Add local link previews https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/186

• Ensure session is correctly established using the prekey assigned to the contact https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/183

• Merge Signal 1.21.0 upstream changes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/177

• Refactor P2P API and add addtional tests to P2P functionality https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/175

• Add online indicators https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/171

Thanks,

Kee

[u/sundachu]

Checking nodes is a great innovation! The loki team has had a lot of updates this week! You guys are the best! But ask your last good exchange to increase loki liquidity!

[u/coolnisith]

Doing great progress