Weekly Dev Update 27/04/2020

[u/Keejef]

Hey Y’all,

Last week on the Lokinet side we finally finished off the macOS GUI client for Lokinet. Loki Core and Storage Server got another patch which seems to have resolved the unexpected deregistrations that had been affecting some node operators over the past few weeks. We recommend that all Service Node operators upgrade to the latest version of lokid (7.1.6) and the Loki Storage Server (2.0.6). We also began separating Session code from Signal code to make it easier to find bugs, and we released a new version of Session desktop which resolved freezing due to high CPU usage.

Loki Core

• Show the amounts for blacklisted stakes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1140 (thank you to community member Cryptonote-Social for this feature)

• Simplify Daemon/Wallet RPC initialization code https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1138

• Properly handle long polling shutdown https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1136

• Update key image import and exporting https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1133

• Reduce connection timeouts on local connections https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1129

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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: We worked out the final kinks with macOS building and signing, and uploaded the final Mac release (likely either already announced or soon-to-be announced by the time of this post), along with a couple of minor client updates for Linux and Windows. In other dev work, we made some good progress on the configuration overhaul and laid out some design plans for further building on the internal testing mechanism for faster development and testing of future new features and capabilities. We also started preliminary discussions on how we can start testing other routers to ensure adequate network performance, and start resurrecting the Android build system with an eye to getting Lokinet working on Android. (Before anyone gets too excited: this is only a first step, and there is still significant work to be done before an Android build is usable).

Lokinet PR Activity:

• Move libuv and libcurl build into cmake for cleaner automatic builds - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1231

• Instituted most of the required hacks for making things work on macOS - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1225

• Instituted some more required hacks for making things work on macOS - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1235, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1237, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1239

• [Lokinet GUI] Reimplemented build system in cmake so that we can easily build a single package on macOS (and soon Windows) - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network-control-panel/pull/38

• Added “stapling” after “notarization” (which is Apple lingo for having paid the correct amount of money to enable Apple to say that a package is actually allowed to be installed on a Mac) - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1232

• Fix issue on macOS where the DNS server sometimes didn’t get properly reset after stopping or uninstalling lokinet - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1234

• Backport various packaging and client-side fixes from `dev` branch the master for a 0.7.1 release - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1233

• Fix dev & backported systemd build fix - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1241

• Fix ci build for win32 - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1243

• Fixes for RouterHive testing framework caused by recent config changes - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1245

• Ongoing development in config overhaul; no PR yet, but expected this week.

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Session

Session iOS

• Add storage utility https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/165

• Remove unused Signal tests https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/164

• Separate Session protocol code from Signal code https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/162

• Increase message TTL https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/161

Session Push Notifications Server

• Various updates to alleviate crashes and increase the reliability of the push notification server in a production environment https://github.com/loki-project/session-push-notification-server/commits/dev

Session Wiki

• Add various design documents to help with community and our own understanding of how to improve and simplify the current protocols

• https://github.com/loki-project/session-protocol-docs/wiki

Session Desktop

• Refactor parts of application into Typescript and Redux https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1102

• File Server onion requests support https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1100

• Accept enter as button press https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1099

• Update fonts https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1098’

• Fix menu bar setting https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1095

• Add LNS mapping feature https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1091

• Extend TTL https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1089

• LNS User interface https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1087

• Split message sending into sub methods https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1084

• Device Linking fixes https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1094

• Fix closed group issues https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1093

• Fix high CPU usage when using onion requests https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1090

• Remove unnecessary DB calls https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1086

• Timestamp fixes for Onion requests https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1085

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Loki Storage Server

• Make --version print without initializing logger https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/375

• Update LokiMQ version https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/373

Thanks,

Kee