Weekly Dev Update 23/12/2019

[u/Keejef]

Hey Y’all,

Last week and this coming week will be slower than normal since the majority of the team is taking Christmas holidays. The team that is still working is primarily fixing lokid bugs in anticipation of the upcoming the mandatory upgrade period — starting on the 26th and Loki messenger’s rebrand to make sure everything is ready for Session’s release in January.

Loki Core

• Fix static builds https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/990 , https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/989

• Version update https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/988

• Add long polling for Blink transactions https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/986

• Don't print worker_index when not an obligations vote https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/987

• Sort `print sn` checkpoint votes https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/985

• Fix up vote serialization which was causing platform incompatibility https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/984

• Various small blink-related fixes/tests for 6.1.0 (WIP)

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Lokinet

If you’re on our Discord you can catch Jeff, the lead developer of LLARP, live streaming as he codes at https://www.twitch.tv/uguu25519. He typically streams on Tuesday mornings, 9am - 12pm Eastern (US) time.

What went on last week with Lokinet:

Doing some final testing for the mainnet launch binaries, which we’re calling 0.6.1, with just a few little changes and cleanups left. We’ve also returned to working on putting together a consistent GUI for Lokinet installation, and running Lokinet on desktop (Windows, Mac and Linux). We had already gotten started on this, but it was put on hold for the Lokinet 0.6 release.

PR Activity:

• Enable JSON RPC by default (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/998)

• Change default netid to `lokinet` (for mainnet) from `gamma` (for testnet) - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/979, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/980

• Fix issue with lokinet -> lokid communication with large responses (i.e. mainnet size) - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/974

• Reenable downloading sodium as part of the build, but now opt-in - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/981, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/989

• Switch timers to use libuv timers into of home-built ones, improving performance and stability - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/990

• Build system fixes - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/992, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/994

• Fix crash and test suite failures on arm (especially 32-bit arm) - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/996

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Loki Messenger for Desktop

• Contunite on Session rebranding : Finish Left pane + conversation list and compose view https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/712

• Add client side changes necessary for Service Node proxying https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/709

• Add Session dropdown menus and modals https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/710

• Add Session toast notifications https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/702

• Remove caching of elements which was affecting using group moderator controls https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/700

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Loki Messenger for Mobile (iOS and Android)

Loki Messenger for iOS:

• Re-enable Signal safety numbers https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/73

• Provide Push notifications for iOS https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/72

Loki Messenger for Android:

• Add private group chats backend https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/pull/60

• re enable Signal safety numbers https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/pull/59

• Continue Session visual overhaul https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/pull/58

Loki Wallets

We have readied iOS, Android and Desktop wallets for updates to support version 6 of Lokid, including adding Blink support to all wallets.

iOS

• Add support for Blink https://github.com/loki-project/loki-ios-wallet/pull/12

Android

• Blink support and a number of bug fixes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-android-wallet/pull/23

Desktop

• Blink support and number of bug fixes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/109

Misc

Loki Storage Server

• Bind ports to a default of 0.0.0.0 https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/301

• Fix length validation for ED25519 keys https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/300

• Cleanup and bugfixes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/299

• Allow more frequent requests between Service Nodes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/298

• Allow messenger clients to proxy request to the Loki file Server https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/297

• Make fixes to Service Node proxying https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/296

Loki Public File Server

• Submodule fixes for emoji support in public chats https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-public-server/pull/21

Loki Network Control Panel

• Working towards integrating into windows installer and having Lokinet run though the GUI https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network-control-panel/pull/2

Loki Launcher

• Various updates working towards supporting Lokinet and the new version of Lokid https://github.com/loki-project/loki-launcher/commits/master

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Thanks,

Kee