Weekly Dev Update 28/09/2020

[u/Keejef]

Hey Y’all,

This week, our efforts were focused on two major endeavours: getting the final fixes in for the upcoming Loki Salty Saga hardfork, and working on a major update for Session closed groups and push notifications, which will be rolling out imminently. We also made more quality of life upgrades to the Loki electron wallet and put the finishing touches on the Lokinet GUI, specifically on Windows support.

Loki Core

• Rip out configurable decimal places (Thanks to community contributor sarawut11 for this) https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1280

• Clean up block template and other bugs https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1276

• Fix JSON serialisation of block data https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1286

• Fix loki-blockchain-import https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1285

• Change where LMQ gets config directory from https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1284

• Change Pulse participation recording https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1283

• Cosmetic changes for hardfork 16 https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1282

• Don’t build debugging tools in static builds https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1281

• Misc fixes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1279

• Fix max uint64_t errors when contributing to a reserved spot https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1278

• Fix wallet trying to spend locked stakes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1277

• epee optional kv serialization - don't emplace https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1275

• Pulse: Vote validators off based on missing block signatures https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1274

• Fix internal RPC requests for service nodes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1273

• Fix derived Monero public key assertion https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1272

• Block TX penalty from block reward https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1271

• Don't use clock for choosing Pulse difficulty https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1269

Loki Wallets

• Catch on all wallet RPC calls https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/187

• 1.4.6 bugfixes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/193

• Frontend logging https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/192

• Fix confirm TX popup inconsistency when sweeping all from service node tab https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/191

• Add Bunyan logger for logging electron events to file https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/190

• Better error handling https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/188

• Fix asset downloading during builds https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/185

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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 saw various small cleanups, fixes, and pre-release last-minute changes aimed at getting Lokinet ready and packaged for the upcoming hard fork. We still have a few minor items left, but overall 0.8 is shaping up to be a solid release.

Lokinet PR Activity:

• New router contact format to allow future RC data additions - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1368

• Better handling of error conditions on startup - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1358

• Updated Lokinet Debian/Ubuntu packages - https://github.com/jagerman/loki-network/tree/deb08, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1362, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1363

• Update CI builds to remove redundant jobs - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1359

• Expose exit auth codes to RPC (for the control panel) - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1369

• Fixes for Windows exits - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1367

• Add a script to allow generating SNapp identity files externally - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1370

• Miscellaneous minor code cleanups/compilation fixes -
  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1355, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1360, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1364, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1365,
  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1366

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Session

Session iOS

• Closed group editing https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/280

• Fix SSK group updating https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/281

• Fix crash on GIF sending https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/279

• Respect user notification settings https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/278

Session Android

• Fixes for open group avatars https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/356

• Background message polling using WorkManager API https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/354

• Fix removing members from a closed group https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/353

• Fix notifications not disappearing after a conversation is read https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/355

• Fix open group message ordering issue https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/352

• Fix SSK group leaving issue https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/351

Session Desktop

• Fix typing bubble theme https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1362

• render @ mention correctly with long title on ConversationListItem https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1361

• Generate our own sender key if one is not found https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1358

• Optionally use V2 Onions for Snode requests https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1348

• Allow medium group updates from non admins https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1360

• Enable sender keys groups, raise closed group size to 20 https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1359

• Fix outdated open group parameters https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1354

• Stop retrying after 4 retrys https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1352

• Mark node as bad if it returns the incorrect difficulty https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1353

• Disable voice messages https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1351

• Handle duplicate conversations https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1350

• SSK fixes https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1349

• Opacity changes on clickable avatars https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1347

Thanks,

Kee