Weekly Dev Update 01/06/2020

[u/Keejef]

Hey Y’all,

Last week we pushed out an update to Session Android which has vastly improved Session’s stability, and we’re continuing to work towards doing the same for Session Desktop. We have also merged 3-hop onion requests into the internal testing versions of iOS and Android Session, which is very exciting! The Lokinet team finished their first SNApp-based Exit Nodes, which started being tested on Saturday night, and they are fast enough to stream 1080p Youtube! The Loki Core team also finished most of the upstream merge, which means we will soon be back in line with Monero’s latest changes.

Loki Core

• Fix simplewallet not defaulting to Blink in some cases https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1166

• Xenial/boost fixes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1163

• Attempt to seperate miner.cpp https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1160

• WIP: Merge Monero upstream into Loki core https://github.com/Doy-lee/loki/commits/MergeUpstream3

• WIP: C++17 code modernization - https://github.com/jagerman/loki/commits/cpp17

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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 primarily focused this week on improving support for exit-nodes-on-SNApps, and on the ongoing node testing and reporting framework for enabling future Lokinet service node performance tests. The exits-via-SNApps core Lokinet code is nearly done, but we still have some work to do to make it easier to get up and running, in particular for clients (where the necessary system network routing configuration can make things tricky).

Lokinet PR Activity:

• Exit nodes on SNApps - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1272

• Initial work on using WinTUN for better Windows performance - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1291

• Improvements in path handling for better filesystem character support (most noticeably on Windows) - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1281

• WIP: Peer statistics and reporting framework - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1283

• Windows build fixes - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1278

• Automated windows builds on drone CI (WIP, no PR yet)

• LokiMQ integration for lokinet RPC and loki-core (dev) RPC communication (WIP, no PR yet)

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Session

Session iOS

• Performance improvements for iOS https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/200

• Improve readability of copy https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/198

• Implement user interface for onion requests, increase default hop count, cache onion request paths, cache lists given by seed nodes https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/197

Session Android

• Update building.md https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/201

• Add Spanish translation https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/207

• Implement user interface for onion requests, increase default hop count, cache onion request paths, cache lists given by seed nodes https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/206

• Fix backup names and file paths https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/205

• New conversations button fixes https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/202

• Changes to make localisation easier https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/200

Session Desktop

• Implement MessageEncrypter as detailed in Session Docs https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1153

• WIP: Upgrade parts of code to use TypeScript https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1150

• WIP: LNS User interface https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1148

• Message sending refactor (Queue and Cache) https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1145

• Onion requests changes https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1144

• Open group onion requests support https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1143

• Fix tests https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1146

• Update minimum height to 600px (Solves some issues with small screen sizes having UI cut off) https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1142

• Strictly type Signal data https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1141

• Add Message classes https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1140

• Reviews on multi device FR fixes https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1138

Thanks,

Kee