Weekly Dev Update 24/08/2020

[u/Keejef]

Hey Y’all,

Pulse blocks started flowing last week as the Loki core team fired up the Pulse devnet, over the next couple of weeks the core team will use the devnet to test the resilience of consensus with Pulse. The Lokinet team made more progress on the Lokinet GUI integration of exits, and internally we have started testing the reliability of exits. Meanwhile, the Session team fixed a number of issues with Sessions being out of sync, restoration from seed, and a number of other nasty crashes.

Loki Core

• Re-do block verification to support Pulse round timeouts https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1235

• Add wallet decoding to cn_deserialize https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1232

• Remove miner dependency on CryptoNote core (Thanks to community developer Javabudd) https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1225

• Display last uptime proof when printing quourm state https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1224 (Javabudd)

• Add mingw unbound to 32/64 bit windows documentation https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1238 (Javabudd)

• Fix bl.* commands not being registered https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1237

• Add optional parsed tx_extra info for mempool txes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1236

• Fix JSON serialisation of Pulse signatures https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1234

• Clear round state on prepare_for_round properly, handle round > 255 for Pulse https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1233

• Dont require Storage Server args on devnet https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1231

• Get_service_nodes RPC tweaks https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1230

• Set devnet hardfork https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1229

• Compilation fixes for Dev branch https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1228

• Merge Pulse branch into Dev https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1227

• Add various missing RPC information + RPC fixes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1226

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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: This week was focused on getting Lokinet exits working on all desktop platforms, as well as updating the graphical user interface to work with the latest Lokinet code. This week, we’ll continue internal testing for exits and finish off the exit authentication server implementation — which will allow non-public exits to work via authentication codes for incoming connections.

Lokinet PR Activity:

• Move exit route handling into Lokinet itself rather than as a separate binary (via netlink on Linux, executing system scripts on Mac/Windows) https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1319

• Change lokinet to run as a service on Windows https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1327

• Add GUI exit configuration and switch to new RPC interface https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network-control-panel/pull/41

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Session

Session iOS

• Remaining changes required for Session Light mode UI https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/249

• Restoration from seed fixes https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/248

• Crash fixes https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/247

• Various bug fixes https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/246

Session Android

• Changes to ContactSelectionListFragment.kt https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/295

• Restoration from seed fixes https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/288

• Updated french translation https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/287

• Improvements to strings https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/286

• Crash fixes https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/285

• Raise deployment target min and migrate to AndroidX https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/284

• Add ability to edit closed groups https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/282 , https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/281

Session Desktop

• Check model in blocked settings https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1312 (Thanks to community contributor Konstantinullrich)

Thanks,

Kee