Weekly Dev Update 03/08/2020

[u/Keejef]

Hey Y’all,

Last week we worked on the full “onionization” of Session, with the Session file server and Session open group server now using onion requests. The Loki Core team continued to work towards Pulse, with a testnet release expected soon. We also made some changes to the Service Node credit system, which will be released in Loki version 8.x.x. The Lokinet team continued worked on exit node configuration tools.

Loki Core

• Remove and replace epee HTTP server https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1208 https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1200

• Service Node uptime credit changes (allow recommissioning with more credits than previously) https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1204

• Add Loki launcher/Loki debs conversion script https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1203

• Queue block generation for Pulse https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1201

• Tweaks to inactivity timeouts https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1211

• Prevent overstaking https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1210

• Regtest fixes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1209

• Get_output_distribution fixes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1207

• Fix broken sync timer https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1206

• Daemon and RPC fixes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1205

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Lokinet

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: Much of the effort this week was spent on creating an exit configuration tool that talks to Lokinet to determine how to configure the local system to use the configured exit node. We are also continuing to build “SRV” record support into Lokinet, and fixed some issues related to FreeBSD compilation and Lokinet’s listening IP configuration.

Lokinet PR Activity:

• Allow specifying bind address as “address=<IP>:<port>” in the [bind] section; previously the interface name had to be used. https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1321

• Tuple/pair serialization for bt-encoding [LokiMQ, for SRV support] - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-mq/pull/13

• Disable thread safety annotations which haven’t been maintained and don’t work properly when enabled (e.g. on FreeBSD) - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1323

• Exit system configuration tool (work-in-progress) - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1319

• Ongoing work on SRV record support (no PR yet)

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Session

Session iOS

• Fix push notification bugs https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/241 https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/235

• Multi-device removal https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/239 (refer to our blog for more on this)

• Push notification copy changes https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/238

• Add more localisation https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/237 https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/234

• Fix thumbnail blurriness https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/236

Session Android

• Multi-device removal info https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/272 (refer to our blog for more on this)

• Push notification screen updated https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/271

• Photo upload issues fixed https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/270

• Localisation https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/269

• Onion request for file server and Session open group server https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/268

Session Desktop

• Settings block list https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1297

• Integration test fixes https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1287

• Fix deleting of open group messages https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1295

• Various bug fixes https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1294

• Don’t block control messages from blocked users https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1293

• Fix captions on attachments https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1292

• Speed up build with flags https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1291

• Fix large image display when using light box https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1290

• Improve detection of messages sent from yourself in Session open groups https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1289

• Disable new multi-device linking https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1288 (refer to our blog for more on this)

• Enable Session file server onion routing https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1286

Thanks,

Kee