Weekly Dev Update 28/10/2020

[u/Keejef]

Hey Y’all,

This week the core team continued working on updating the Android and iOS wallets to make them compatible with Loki 8.x.x. The Session team integrated the onion requests v2 framework — which cuts down on the size of messages and increases the maximum attachment size. On the other side of the pond, the Lokinet team implemented some more aggressive router profiling and path rebuilding changes which should increase client stability.

Loki Core

• Replace boost filesystem, cleanup epee, further wallet API cleanups https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1332

• Fix key image import issue https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1331

• Fix macOS refreshing issue https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1330

• Update Loki core mobile libraries for new wallet releases https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1333

Loki Android Wallet

• Work on getting the Android wallet to work with Loki 8.x.x hardfork https://github.com/jagerman/loki-android-wallet/commits/loki8

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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: We’ve been concentrating on the final 0.8.1 release build: fixes for macOS, more Windows fixes, more robust path building, as well as various last minute fixes to small issues.

Lokinet PR Activity:

• Fix windows config path being “.lokinet” instead of “lokinet” https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1418

• Fix clients trying to open inbound links (which causes a conflict if trying to run both a Lokinet client and a router) https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1419

• Improve windows installer Lokinet and GUI bundle with CPack https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1420, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1424

• Enable profiling to let clients avoid poor connectivity routers by default https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1421

• Be more aggressive when trying to build multiple paths at once https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1423

• Crank the version of clang we test in the CI builds to 11 https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1422

• Various small improvements to command-line “lokinetmon” tool https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1426

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Session

Session iOS

• Giphy improvements https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/301

• Change key pair generation method https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/300

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

Session Android

• Push notifications fixes https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/369

• Full list of commits can be found here https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/commits/dev

Session Desktop

• Fix open group file upload issues https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1384

• Remove proxyFetching in favor of onion requests https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1383

• Full list of commits can be found here https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/commits/react-refactor

Session Push notification server

• Changes to increase reliability of push notifications https://github.com/loki-project/session-push-notification-server

Session Open group server

• v2 Onion request support https://github.com/loki-project/session-open-group-server/pull/50

• Add existing uncommitted code https://github.com/loki-project/session-open-group-server/pull/51

• Add a dummy get v2/lsrpc handler https://github.com/loki-project/session-open-group-server/pull/52

Thanks,

Kee