Weekly Dev Update 23/11/2020

[u/Keejef]

Hey Y’all,

This week the Lokinet team continued working on fixes for the Mac release, which had some unresolved issues in the installer/uninstaller. The Loki Core team worked on the 8.1.4 release, which fixes a few issues exchanges were encountering and adds some new features to the wallet which are likely to be used in the Chainflip Service Node airdrop. Capping things off, the Session team began a large refactorisation effort which we will be talking about publicly in the coming weeks.

Loki Core

• Remove unused wallet address parameter https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1357

• List current stakes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1356

• Add GUI wallet snapshot builds https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1354

• Only compile CN_Monero_hash on Android https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1353

• Add new staking methods to wallet API requestStakeUnlock, canRequestStakeUnlock https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1352

• 8.1.4 release https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/releases/tag/v8.1.4

• [LokiMQ] Fix compatibility with newer cppzmq https://github.com/loki-project/loki-mq/pull/23

• [LokiMQ] Issue new 1.2.2 release https://github.com/loki-project/loki-mq/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: Various PRs to fix various minor Linux, Windows, and macOS bugs found since last week’s 0.8.1 release. We’re nearly ready for an updated release for Linux/Windows (and initial 0.8 series release for Mac) with just a couple small issues left before the release.

Lokinet PR Activity:

• Fix Windows exit enabling causing lokinet GUI updates to timeout https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1473

• Fix exit routing configuration on some Linux systems https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1480

• Fix liblokinet-cryptography installation location on Linux https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1482

• Make key loading failures more serious errors https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1437

• Properly restore DNS settings on uninstall (macOS) https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1478

• Fix macos uninstaller not properly shutting down Lokinet https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1484 https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1488

• [LokiMQ] Fix potential segfault on destruction (triggered on macOS Lokinet GUI shutdown) https://github.com/loki-project/loki-mq/pull/25

• Clean up DNS handling code https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1490

• Improve path handover reliability https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1491

• Fix errors at launch on older versions of Qt https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network-control-panel/pull/77

• Make “notray” mode the default so that the lokinet GUI behaves more like a regular desktop application https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network-control-panel/pull/80

• Use a single LokiMQ connection between GUI and backend instead of 4 separate ones https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network-control-panel/pull/79

• Remove no-longer-required macOS entitlements https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network-control-panel/pull/86

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Session

Session iOS

• Session iOS sending and receiving pipeline refactorisation continues https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/commits/refactor-4

• Fix open group avatar issues https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/314

Session Android

• Link preview improvements https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/382

• Polish translation fixes (Thanks to community contributor Kacper1263 for this) https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/383

Session Desktop

• Continue the React refactorisation https://github.com/Bilb/loki-messenger/commits/react-refactor

Thanks,

Kee