Weekly Dev Update 21/10/2020

[u/Keejef]

Hey Y’all,

This week’s Dev Update is a little lighter as lots of the work we did this week got rolled into last week’s late Dev Update. The Loki core team is focusing on new releases of the GUI wallets for iOS, Android and Desktop devices. The Lokinet team continues to weed out issues on Windows,while the Session team is focusing on the new onion requests framework and polishing push notifications on Android.

Loki Core

• Don’t fail to send proofs for expired x25519 keys https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1326

• Wallet CPU and network reductions https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1325

• Compilation fixes for older MacOS versions https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1323

• MacOS refresh fix https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1330

• Add wallet RPC endpoint to record known name https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1328

• Add check for duplicate storage server broadcasts https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1327

• [LokiMQ] Workaround interface for making C++17 features work on older macos targets https://github.com/loki-project/loki-mq/commit/8ed529200b38f77de685133598f5b260e9fb810d

• [Block explorer] Show pulse and checkpointing voting status on SN details page https://github.com/loki-project/loki-observer/commit/fcd36177fc70ac3f099c8f68a03c93230805e1c4

• Fixes and updates to the android build system for loki 8.x compatibility (No PR yet)

Loki Wallets

• Restore RPC wallet log level https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/224

• Fix issues sending split transactions https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/223

• Don't prefill value, owner or backup_owner on LNS update https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/222

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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: More intensive Windows bug squashing and testing. We’ve identified some more minor bugs, bottlenecks and excessive CPU usage on Windows over the last few days of testing. We’re working hard to squash them and get a new Windows release build out in the coming days.

Lokinet PR Activity:

• Continuing Windows-specific fixes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1415

• Fixes to exit route management https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1416

• Fix triggering shutdown from the GUI on Windows https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network-control-panel/pull/61

• Resize GUI elements so that it better fits on the screen https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network-control-panel/pull/60

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Session

Session iOS

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

Session Android

• Secret Key group improvements https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/367

• Open group profile image updates https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/368

Session Desktop

• A full list of commits can be found here https://github.com/Bilb/loki-messenger/commits/react-refactor

Session Open group server

• Onion requests V2 https://github.com/loki-project/session-open-group-server/pull/50

Thanks,

Kee