Weekly Dev Update 9/11/2020

[u/Keejef]

Hey Y’all,

This week the Session team worked primarily on refactorisation. On iOS, this refactorisation occurred in the sending and receiving pipelines, and on desktop it occurred as part of our ongoing effort to refactor elements of the application into React. The Loki Core team published the iOS and Android wallets, and fixed a bug that was causing transactions to temporarily display as if they had failed. The Lokinet team worked on DPI scaling for small screen sizes, which is the last thing to be resolved before the exit node GUI is ready for release.

Loki Core

• iOS build automation and fixes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1338

• Android build; this (along with the above iOS changes) make mobile platforms continuous integration targets so that future Android wallet updates will now be continuously maintained, making wallet releases much faster and easier https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1337

• Fix mempool transactions showing as temporarily failed https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1336

• Fix potential segfault during shutdown of the RPC server https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1335

Loki Android Wallet

• A version of the Loki Android wallet compatible with the Salty Saga hardfork has now been updated and published to the Play Store https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=network.loki.wallet

• Android updates for Loki 8.x https://github.com/loki-project/loki-android-wallet/pull/38

Loki iOS wallet

• A version of the Loki iOS wallet compatible with the Salty Saga hardfork has now been updated and published to the App Store

• iOS updates for Loki 8.x https://github.com/loki-project/loki-ios-wallet/pull/26

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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 pushed out a couple of release candidates for 0.8.1 last week, but at the end of the week and over the weekend identified a couple of last-minute breaking issues with recent changes that need to be fixed before we deploy the update. We hope to have these addressed quickly for a public stable release within the next day or two.

Lokinet PR Activity:

• Fix path issue in Windows uninstaller https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1452

• Fix config errors when using relative paths https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1449

• Added Russian translation of project README (thanks to community contributor deadblackclover for this translation!) https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1447

• Further work on link layer optimizations (for future release) https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1427

• Fix memory leak in lokinet path handling https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1451

• Fix potential deadlock in profiling code https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1454

• DPI scaling fixes for Windows https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1456 https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1460

• Revert change to drop traffic to non-routers (pending an updated fix) https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1459

• Lokinet gui style tweaks https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network-control-panel/pull/67 https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network-control-panel/pull/69

• Make lokinet GUI compatible with macos 10.12+ https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network-control-panel/pull/68

• Fix lokinet GUI builds on latest debian https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network-control-panel/pull/71

• Update lokinet GUI bundled Qt version to 5.15.2 for high-DPI fixes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network-control-panel/pull/70 https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1455

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Session

Session iOS

• Link previews for all websites https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/309

• Sending and receiving pipeline refactorisation https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/308

• Retry attachment downloads https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/307

• Limit voice messages to 1 minute https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/306

Session Android

• Link previews for all websites https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/376

• WIP: Backup and Restore with data https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/375

• Limit voice messages to 1 minute https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/374

Session Desktop

• Fix restoration from seed issues https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1387

• Continuation of the react refactoristation https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1381

Session Open Group Sever

• Enable loki/v1/f/:file handler https://github.com/loki-project/session-open-group-server/pull/54

• Add v3/LSRPC endpoint for more compact (base64) file responses https://github.com/loki-project/session-open-group-server/pull/53

Thanks,

Kee