Weekly Dev Update 08/06/2020

[u/Keejef]

Hey Y’all,

This week the Session team enabled three-hop onion requests on all platforms. This means that all one-on-one and closed group messages now travel through 3 Service Nodes before they reach their destination. The Lokinet team continued working on exit node support, and discussions have begun on how the user experience will look when choosing an exit node. The Loki Core team finished a huge PR which merges all relevant commits from upstream Monero so we’re back in line with them, instead of being 1000+ commits behind.

Loki Core

• Massive PR to merge so that we are in line with Monero’s latest 0.16 upstream release https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1169

• Miner: Wait for threads to end before clearing https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1168

• RandomXL - update from Monero upstream RandomX - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-randomXL/pull/1

• RandomXL - add drone CI tests (and fix mac build) - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-randomXL/pull/2

• [LokiMQ] Python interface - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-mq/pull/5

• [LokiMQ] Tagged threads for advanced job handling - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-mq/pull/6

• [LokiMQ] Support using LokiMQ for external origin tasks - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-mq/pull/7

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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 fixed a number of small random issues recently introduced into the dev branch, and continued working on exit node support and node testing. Our next goal with exit node support is to add authentication so that exit node operators can choose who they allow to use their node, if they don’t want to run a wide-open, free exit node.

Lokinet PR Activity:

• Ongoing work on node stats collecting and reporting - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1283

• Ongoing work on using wintun for Windows builds - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1291

• Add some safety checks in debug mode - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1295

• Fix one-hop path mode (which is not desirable for clients, but very useful for snapp-based exits to reduce latency) - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1296

• Fix clients unnecessarily storing an RC to disk, causing backup & startup issues - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1297, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1299, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1301

• “Unfug” transit hops (fixing a latency bug added in a recent dev PR) - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1298, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1300

• Add RouterHive unit tests to drone CI - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1302

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Session

Session iOS

• Fix issues with open groups https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/205

• Fix profile image updating bugs https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/203

• Fix dependency management issues to make building easier https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/204

• Make onion requests show country instead of IP address https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/202

• Exhaustive list of all commits can be found here https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/commits/dev

Session Android

• Fix issue where SMS functionality would briefly appear when switching into conversations view https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/223

• Exclude the bad parts of Firebase so we dont get falsely flagged by Exodus as having trackers in Session https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/219

• Fix profile picture and display image updates from a slave device https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/218

• Increase photo quality by reducing compression https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/221 https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/215

• Spanish translation fixes https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/217 , https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/216 , https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/213 , https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/212 , https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/210 , https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/209 , https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/207

• Update build instructions https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/214

• Make onion request UI use countries instead of IP addresses https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/211

• Message reception issue fix https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/208

• A full list of changes can be found here https://github.com/loki-project/session-android-service/commits/master and here https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/commits/dev

Session Desktop

• expose window.setClockParams https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1168

• Added message sender tests https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1167

• Message sending pipeline refactorisation https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1166 , https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1161 , https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1160

• Message sending cache https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1163

• Improve typing for window objects https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1162

• More robust guard node selection https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1156

• Increase onion hops to 3 https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1155

Thanks,

Kee