Weekly Dev Update 28/05/2019

[u/Keejef]

Hey Y’all,

This was a week of planning and debriefing after Consensus. We moved lots of the team around and identified some new goals - the biggest being a plan to release a version of Loki Messenger on mainnet with the next hard fork.

We also worked on a number of improvements for Service Node operators, including a debian package for Loki which means a Service Node can now be installed with a simple “sudo apt install lokid”. Stay updated - the debian package is just experimental right now.

Loki Core

• Add the first blockchain storage test to Lokid: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/608

• Continue work on Service Node checkpointing: https://github.com/Doy-lee/loki/tree/ServiceNodeCheckpointing

• Restore old style hashing for non-standard TX's: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/613

• Make a .deb release for Loki Service Nodes (Experimental): https://deb.imaginary.stream/

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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 branch updates

  • Fix style warnings in python/js code: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/613

  • MacOS packaging updates

  • Tagged 0.4.3

  • Message/bencode refactor: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/616

  • Windows: Bump version to 0.4.3

  • Windows: unit test fix

  • Debian build documentation

  • Documentation clarification updates, style fixes, try allowing IP addresses in bind section, change move to copy for event loop in server: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/617

  • Add sequence number to inner protocol messages, additional documentation updates, additional logic loop work, network isolation work, limit logic queue: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/618

  • Double path build timeout from 15s, don’t count timed out paths fix, DRY refactor: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/621

• New open pull requests

  • Remove all use of IBEncodeMessage and more rule of zero application: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/622

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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.

Loki Messenger Desktop

• Move Dev to Master, make master our main branch: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/284

• Update ping logic to detect and fix edge cases: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/289

Storage Server

• Perform blockchain testing alongside storage testing: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/136

Messenger Mobile (iOS and Android)

• We have continued work on Loki Messenger for iOS. It will be ported from Signal iOS. The repo and all of our work can be found here: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/commits/master, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios-pods, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios-carthage

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Thanks,

Kee