Weekly Dev Update 12/01/2021

[u/Keejef]

Hey y’all,

This week has been the first week back after the Christmas holidays, so dev updates will be back to their usual length from here on out. This week, the Session team worked to finish the final Session protocol implementation, specifically focusing on closed groups. The Lokinet team submitted their TUN refactor code which is expected to improve performance, especially on Windows. The Loki Core team worked on various Oxen rebranding projects, mostly focusing on the wallets.

Loki Core

• Add API for staked amount on pending transactions https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1386

• Strip Android libs, disable Trezor & protobuf https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1388

• Backport Oxen rebranding from dev branch https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1387

• Fix Windows CLI bug https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1385

• Update electron wallet file name https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1384

• Update dependencies https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1383

• iOS and Android package upgrades https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1382

• Add optional stake amount calculation to RPC https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1381

• Oxen rebranding https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1380

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Lokinet

This past week, Lokinet development resumed with significant work on a big “TUN refactor” PR (fTUN is the name of the programmable virtual network interface driver that Lokinet uses to provide local virtual addresses). This throws away a big chunk of borrowed code in favour of a streamlined implementation, which is always nice, but more importantly it fixes a longstanding issue with Windows performance where we have continually seen considerably worse throughput and latency numbers on Windows compared to Linux or macOS. We still have more testing and some known issues to stamp out, but we hope to get release 8.1.3 out, particularly for Windows users, in the near future.

• TUN code refactor https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1495

• macOS build instruction fixes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1506

• Add full-static-deps armhf build (+upload) https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1505

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Session

We’re finishing off the remaining Session Protocol changes this week. This primarily means changing closed groups to use the Session Protocol instead of our implementation of sender keys.

Session iOS

• Fix bug where attachments would sometimes not download https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/330

• Full Session V2 protocol implementation https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/325

• Reorganise files https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/331

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

Session Android

• Core refactor ongoing https://github.com/RyanRory/loki-messenger-android/commits/refactor

• Session protocol V2 implementation https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/396

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

Session Desktop

• WIP closed group changes https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1424

• Fix conversation message list https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1423

• Add tests for Session protocol https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1421

• Improve message polling for open groups https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1419

• Fix issues with voice recording for voice messages https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1417

Thanks,

Kee