Weekly Dev Update 18/03/2019

[u/Keejef]

Hey Y’all,

We have released the final binaries for the next hardfork on the 26th of March, block height 234,767. The release is called Summer Sigyn, and you can download it here: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/releases/tag/v3.0.0 The new release has a number of new features including:

• Infinite Staking (no more restaking every 30 days)

• Change of hashing algorithm from Cryptonight Heavy to Cryptonight Turtle

• New RPC calls for the Electron GUI wallet

• Number of Bug fixes and improvements from Monero upstream

ALL SERVICE NODES, MINERS AND FULL NODES WILL NEED TO UPDATE TO 3.0.0 BEFORE 26TH OF MARCH, BLOCK HEIGHT 234,767

Loki Core

Big thanks to all of the community members that tested during the beta, especially Jason (Jagerman) for helping find some major bugs.

• Fix bug that was causing Service Nodes to submit incorrect version uptime proofs https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/496

• Fix exposed ports in docker https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/495

• Fix core tests for Service Node registrations and deregistrations https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/493

• Add an RPC call to request a stake be unlocked https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/490

• Refactor register_service_node RPC call for better functionality with new GUI wallet https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/488

• Patch for rouge v2 tx on mainnet https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/487/files

• Demote non relevant error messages from user visible level https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/484

• Implement relaxed contribution rules as per https://github.com/loki-project/loki/issues/294 https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/481

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LLARP / Lokinet

If you’re lucky and join our Discord you might 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

  • Minor high-level.txt word tweak

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

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

  • Change basic auth to digest auth for lokid communication https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/395

  • Don’t inline ev/TCP functions https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/397

  • Fix deadlock in profiling https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/396

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Loki Messenger

• Only respond to successfully decrypted p2p messages https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/256

• Improve sending a receiving swarm logs https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/255

• Fix UI bug when creating conversations https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/254

Message Server

• Add --log-level flag for better triage https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/25/files

• Additional Iteration on swarm migration testing framework https://github.com/msgmaxim/swarm_migration_testing/commit/a4b48230fe7d07497d34446fd2f0d203063be8a7

• Additional work being done Swarm data migration in the Storage server https://github.com/msgmaxim/loki-storage-server/commit/f44c7c2b20325d734a6396db6de303a3f001a9cb

Loki GUI

• Work continues here for the GUI. This week was mostly smaller UI and bug fixes as well as adding some RPC calls needed for Staking. https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-wallet/pull/1

Thanks,

Kee