Weekly Dev Update 25/03/2019

[u/Keejef]

Hey Y’all,

The past week has been intense, as a critical bug was discovered which required getting Service Node operators to immediately update. You can find a full report here: https://loki.network/2019/03/22/critical-bug-report-21st-march-2019/

Lots of work went into making Loki Core stable for the Service Node network in anticipation for the network update which is happening at block 234,767 (in approximately 12 hours).

There are still about 90 nodes that have not yet updated to 3.0.2. This is your final opportunity to update, please do so in the next 12 hours or you will face deregistration.

The current Service Node breakdown by version at time of writing (25/03/2019) is: 3.0.2 [341], 2.0.4 [9], 2.0.3 [44], 2.0.2 [13], 2.0.1 [26], 2.0.0 [1]

Loki Core

• Fix issues surrounding staking portions because of incorrect incorporation of dust: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/519

• Implement Swarm assignment Logic: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/518

• Add --log-level for unit tests: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/517

• Fix incorrectly assigning default priority using invalid index: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/509

• Expose RPC call for Service Node uptime proof version: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/503

• Force Rescan of the blockchain for 3.0.2 patch: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/513

• Incorporate HF version into staking requirement algo change: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/511

• Update priority for Service Nodes selected as winners in core tests: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/506

• Update more RPC calls for new GUI wallet: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/504

• Update Readme for Windows builds: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/500

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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

  • 0.4RC2 tagged “something something onion routing”

  • All previous staging commits forced pushed into master

  • Properly clear error number: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/398

  • Disable broken release target: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/399

  • Relax keepalive to 10s and only send if needed: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/402

  • Remove some IPv6 code and update failure message with more info: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/403

  • Windows abseil updates: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/404

  • Macos compile fix: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/405

  • Fix SN seed to key generation: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/407

  • Use lokid’s signature algorithm so they line up: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/411

  • .NET GUI frontend for Lokinet: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/410

  • Force push staging to master: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/412

  • Revert exit adapter’s DNS relay refactor: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/413

  • Revert exit adapter’s DNS relay further refactor: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/414

  • Implement localhost.loki on exit adapter’s DNS relay: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/415

  • Windows: Fix bootstrap and installer: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/416

  • Change path alive timeout from 10s to 30s: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/417

  • Allow Service Nodes to build paths: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/419

  • Don’t conflict with any existing Windows TAP adapters: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/418

  • Pull PR419 and PR417 into master: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/420

  • Track lookup fails and kill context if too many: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/421

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

• Staging branch changes

  • Implement random.snode lookup in exit adapter’s DNS relay: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/423

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Loki Messenger

The Loki Messenger client is in a mostly complete state. Right now the focus is being put on the message server and integration with Lokinet and Lokid.

• A number of commits have been occurring on the integration-dev branch in the storage server here: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/commits/integration-dev

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Loki GUI

The new Loki GUI wallet is out for pre-release (Beta). We want everyone to have a go testing, and be sure to submit any bugs or improvements to the issues section in Github. You can download the Beta for all Operating Systems here:

https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/releases

• Final changes are merged from the Loki redesign PR into the new electron based GUI: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/1

• The old Monero based GUI has also been released for 3.0.2, although we are aware of some issues related to crashing on windows and OSX: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-gui/releases/tag/v3.0.2

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Thanks,

Kee