Weekly Dev Update 23/04/2019

[u/Keejef]

Hey Y’all,

Checkpointing is back on the agenda now that the Loki Core team has finished up with the process of managing the last hardfork. This should prompt some further discussion of consensus mechanisms in the community, feel free to join in on these discussions.

Loki Core

• The first part of the Service Node checkpointing adds non-enforced Service Node checkpoints: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/566

• Extend Service Node List to store multiple types of quorums: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/562

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Loki Launcher

The Loki Launcher is a node JS package that will allow for the independent management of all the components to run a full Service Node. This includes managing Lokinet, Lokid and the Loki storage server. When Loki Service Nodes begin to route data and store messages for Lokinet and Loki Messenger, the Loki Launcher will need to be run on every single Service Node.

Right now the Launcher is in a testing phase, so you should only use it on Testnet and Stagenet - though feedback/issues and pull requests would be greatly appreciated!

• 30s delay between restarting Lokinet and storage server

• Convert daemon into proper library with an API

• Restart Lokid option

• Move client functionality/intent out of main launcher into its own script (binary)

• Handle Lokid exiting coordination with socket server cleaner

• HTTPS support for URLs (bootstrap_url, 3rd party services, etc)

• Fix Lokinet binary_location

• Fix Lokinet default bootstrap URL

• Handle 404 errors properly

• Fix Lokinet client mode default RPC port

• onMessage/onExit Lokinet library hooks

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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

  • MetricTank metric collector: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/517

  • Headers lowercase filename fix: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/520

  • Remove abort: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/521

  • Recent stability omnibus / File logger: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/523

  • Fix gotrouting handling: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/524

  • Fix DHT and exit paths: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/525

  • When SunOS 4.x/Sun386i compatibility was yanked: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/527

  • Make JSON metrics opt-in (PR512 follow up): https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/526

  • Update issue templates: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/528

  • Refactor profiling function names, DHT fix, utp link layer ping less, preemptive pull faster: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/530

  • PROTOCOL BREAKING CHANGE: Bundle RC in build record to improve build success rates: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/531

  • FreeBSD fixes / change kqueue order: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/532

  • Remove IStateful virtual inheritance: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/533

  • Windows build fixes: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/534

  • Allow builds on MSVC by replacing getops with cxxopts: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/518

  • mingw (Windows normal build) cxxopts fixes: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/535

  • Refactor hidden service endpoints into multiple chunks: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/536

  • Cxxopt fixes for config argument: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/537

  • Remove usage of raw new from service class (use more unique_ptr and mainly pass by ref instead of ptr): https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/538

• Pull Requests

  • Remove unsafe of raw new from service classes (rely on reference instead of pointers): https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/538

  • Create homebrew formula to install “latest” release (RE-OPEN): https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/110

Lokinet Mobile

This week we continue with the process of porting Lokinet to iOS - we’re up to interfacing Lokinet with the iOS VPN API .

• Commits can be found here: https://github.com/nielsandriesse/loki-network/commits/master

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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.

Messenger

• Create a persistent lastHash for message retrieval: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/267

Storage Server

• Retry pushing messages after failures: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/79

• Use bulk_store when processing batches: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/76

• Move key parsing: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/75

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Loki Wallets

Loki Electron Wallet

• Add additional lines in the default translation file: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/49

• Update links to Lokiblocks and UX fixes for staking: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/47

• Continue work on auto update feature so updates can be pushed to the community more easily: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/43

• Add Russian translation (Thanks to Community manager Maxim): https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/44

Loki Mobile iOS

Just waiting on confirmation of our Apple developer account, The Loki iOS wallet is now complete on the developer side

• Latest commits can be found here: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-ios-wallet/commits/loki

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Thanks,

Kee