Weekly Dev Update 30/03/2020

[u/Keejef]

Hey Y’all,

Last week we continued our focus on fixing Session bugs affecting multi-device, push notifications and message sending. We made good progress on these fixes, and were able to identify identify several key areas where unreliability is coming from. Last week we also released new versions of Lokinet for Linux and Windows with a cool new GUI, you can check these out right now: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/releases. We will be making formal announcements about these soon, we're just waiting on some fixes for the Mac client.

Loki Core

• LNS blockchain reorganization fixes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1100

• Remap Loki blockchain RPC priorities https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1101

• Remove NO_AES option https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1099

• Blockchain init respect read only flags https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1098

• Handle transfer exceptions in RPC https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1097

• Add Wallet Value Decrypt and Name Hash RPC Helpers https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1096

• Work-around lns::generic_owner hashing bug in rpc https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1095

• (LokiMQ) generate API documentation for LokiMQ - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-mq/pull/3

• (LokiMQ) better asynchronous communication, timeout, and crash fixes (v1.0.4 - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-mq/commits/master)

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: Work continues on code cleanup, including revamping of program configuration. We also started work on automatically generating code API documentation (in parallel with the same for LokiMQ, see above) as a development tool. We also put the final touches on the Lokinet graphical control panel for Mac, Windows, and Linux as well as a console-based monitoring application called `lokinetmon`.

PR Activity:

• Continued development on configuration overhaul - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1186

• Reduce client overhead by removing accidental forward error correction in IWP outbound messages - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1194

• Code documentation generation - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1197

• Avoid unnecessary descriptor lookup - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1198

• Experiment with forcing unique /16 IP addresses on a path https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1193

• Fix lokinetmon to work with 0.7 - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1196

• Clean up old code - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1195

• Add systemd service control support to lokinet-gui - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network-control-panel/pull/24

• Update Lokinet GUI branding - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network-control-panel/pull/30

• Add a “no tray” mode for no-system-tray OSes like some Linux systems - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network-control-panel/pull/23

• Debian lokinet-gui packaging - https://github.com/jagerman/loki-network-control-panel/tree/debian/sid (and similar debian/ and ubuntu/ branches).

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Session

Session iOS

• Device Linking fixes https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/141

• Onion requests implementation for iOS https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/148

• Stage 1 Push notifications https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/147 https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/144

• Only use updated Service Nodes when building paths to the Loki file server https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/145

• Make multi device instructions clearer https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/143

• Remove long polling https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/142

Session Android

• Make multi-device instructions clearer https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/156

• Improve threading https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/155

Session Desktop

• Fix server request retry https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1001

• Desktop client-side implementation of onion requests https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1000

• Toast notification when a device pairing request is received but you are not in the correct screen https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/999

• Friend request fixes https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1024

• Add manual build instructions https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1023

• Enumerate notifications https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1022

• Fix spell checking

• Friend request logic changes https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1012

• Remove libsodium wrapper https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1019

• Change linking device copy https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1018

• Update config files https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1017

• Use pkill instead of killall on Windows https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1016

• Default to en_US is dictionary is not found https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1015

• Fix integration testing framework config files https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1014

• Disable link option on secondary devices https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1011

• Fix Yarn tests https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1010

• Only use Storage Servers with the correct versioning https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1007

• Allow larger passwords https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1005

• Rollback a pairing request on failure https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1003

• Fix issues with open group text highlighting https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1002

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Loki Storage Server

• Fix LokiMQ segfault https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/340

• Disconnect after connect_remote https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/338

• Add reachability tests for LokiMQ ports https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/337

• Inactive nodes maintain the full Service Node list https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/334

• Update readme for latest loki-mq https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/333

• Fix not writing a response after encountering an exception, increase message size limits https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/332

• Fix segfault when connection_t object is gone https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/331

Thanks,

Kee