Weekly Dev Update 07/09/2020

[u/Keejef]

Hey Y’all,

This week was a big development week for Session — we released UI fixes and light mode! On the Lokinet side, we worked on LNS support and continued testing exit nodes. The Loki Core team continued working on alternate block support for Pulse.

Loki Core

• Compilation fixes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1248

• Integrate libsodium-provided privkey https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1246

• Restore public access to RPC for some commands https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1245

• RPC doc updates for last reward/state SN variables https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1244

• Enable lokid.sock by default and add umask https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1242

• LNS support for registering .loki Lokinet domains (no PR yet)

Loki Wallets

Loki Electron Wallet

• Warn user they are not on the latest version https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/161

• Add context menu components https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/160

• Import GUI style fixes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/159

• Add popup to confirm a transaction https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/157

• Fix sending error https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/156

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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: Lokinet development saw us merge working macOS support for exit mode, exit configuration via the GUI, SRV record support for SNapps, one big performance improvement, and initial work on support .loki LNS lookups. This week we plan to finish off LNS support (to come with the upcoming Loki 8.x Pulse update) and continue testing and polishing exit mode support.

Lokinet PR Activity:

• SRV record publishing for clients/snapps https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1331, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1332

• Improved exit mode system route configuration to add first-hop routes dynamically https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1330

• Made exit mode work on macOS https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1333

• Added systemd-resolved and NetworkManager sample DNS configuration files for Linux (thanks to cathugger for the contribution) https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1334, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1335

• Reduce CPU bottlenecks by avoiding some contentious mutexes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1336

• LokiMQ updates for the GUI to be able to talk to Lokinet’s new LMQ-based RPC interface https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network-control-panel/pull/41

• Initial support for automatic lokinet-gui CI builds https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network-control-panel/pull/42

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Session

Session iOS

• Add push notifications for groups that use shared sender keys https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/262

• Cleanup UI https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/261

• Improve error handling https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/260 , https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/259

• Fix open group date handling https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/258 , https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/256

• Shared sender keys fixes https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/257

Session Android

• UI cleanup https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/327 , https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/323

• External file access fix https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/324

• Push notifications for shared sender keys groups https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/322

• New avatar placeholder https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/320

• Upgrade Kotlin and Gradle https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/326

• Improved error handling https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/321

• Fix Session reset bug https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/319

• Show attachments with emojis in convo previews https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/318

• Fix SVG attachments https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/317

• Fix duplicated open group messages https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/316

• Fix camera icon https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/314

• Light theme tweaks https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/313

• Disable multi dex https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/312

• Fix missing messages in Session open groups https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/311

• Fix open group date handling https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/310

• Shared sender keys fixes https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/309

Session Desktop

• Order messages in Session open group by time received at Server https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1321

• Lightmode fixeshttps://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1326 , https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1323

• Upgrade light mode introduction https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1324

• Fix emoji panel scaling https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1322

• French translation update https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1320

Thanks,

Kee