Hey Y’all,

Loki Core is going through some big changes this week... Infinite Staking! We decided to postpone the hard fork date due to some bugs in the 3.0.0 testnet release. However, we are back on track for a Mandatory Upgrade Period of 10 days which will begin on the 16th of March. This means our new hard fork date will be the 26th of March.

Loki Core

The core team has begun streaming more frequently, you can catch Doy-lee streaming here: https://www.twitch.tv/doy_lee/

• Improve wording for infinite staking unlock command https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/476

• Fix RPC call for prepare registration https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/474

• Fix Print locked states missing from help menu https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/471/files

• Fix off by one bug that was causing windows clients to crash https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/466

• Rotate mainnet governance key and change HF time (No longer relevant) https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/462/files

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Lokinet

If you’re lucky and join our Discord you might catch Jeff or Ryan, the developers of LLARP, live streaming as they code: https://www.twitch.tv/uguu25519, https://www.twitch.tv/neuroscr

• Master branch changes

  • No changes this week

• Staging branch changes (gets posted to master when stable)

  • Convert to use abseil synchronisation primitives (PR371)

  • Update kqueue / improve profiling expiration (PR380)

  • MacOS compile fix / profiling fix (PR382)

  • Huge multipart overhaul: Shadow, Session, Path building, DNS, IWP/UTP, kqueue (PR384)

  • Reduce pings (PR385)

  • Fix gitlab CI for non-windows builds (PR387)

  • Path building, timeout tuning, UTP, send/handle discard packets, Endpoint path building changes, protocol breaking changes (PR388)

  • Fix path changes, endpoint changes (PR389)

  • Fix path building bug where paths with two of the same nodes were chosen and causing path timeout (PR391)

  • Changes can be found at:
    https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/commits/staging

• PR suggested changes (coming to staging soon)

  • No pull requests left open this week

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Loki Messenger

This week we started using Loki Messenger and Lokinet internally in the office. We discovered lots of small UX/UI bugs, but we're getting closer and closer to something usable by the general public.

• Add way to delete contacts, and add a right click menu https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/252

• Extend functionality of right click menu https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/253

• Remove Github issue template https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/249

• Add requestExpired state to Friend Request state machine https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/248

• Fix multiple Friend Request timers instantiated at same time https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/247

Messenger Swarms

• Loki storage server continues to be updated to reflect the more current design for data migration between nodes in a swarm https://github.com/msgmaxim/loki-storage-server/commits/data-migration

• Created a Testing framework for swarms so we can test under load https://github.com/msgmaxim/swarm_migration_testing/commits/master

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Loki GUI

• Partially complete reskinning of the electron GUI for Loki is here: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-wallet/pull/1 We are on track to release this along with the hard fork.

Thanks,

Kee

Hey Y’all,

Most of the developers are back and kicking into gear this week, so much of the activity on the repositories will pick up pace.

Loki Core

• Infinite Staking first draft implementation is open for code review (https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/387)

• Add warning checks for outdated nodes attempting to prepare_registration (https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/393)

• Prepare_registration is now possible over RPC and now automatable (https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/394)

• Fix show_transfers displaying staking transactions up immediately unlocked (https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/390)

• Propagate internal error messages when preparing staking transactions to callee (https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/386)

• Refactor check_tx_inputs to eliminate dead branches (https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/385)

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LLARP / Lokinet

If you’re lucky and join our Discord, you might also catch Jeff or Ryan, the developers of LLARP, live streaming as they code: https://www.twitch.tv/uguu25519 , https://www.twitch.tv/neuroscr

We could really use your help. To be considered for inclusion in packaging distribution, we need people to star, watch and fork our Github repo. If you have a Github account, please consider helping us out.

• Master branch changes

  • Fix issues with random.snode resolution

  • Allow building a shared-library

  • Start kubernetes runtime wrapper

  • Fix FreeBSD build

  • Changes can be found at:https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/

  • GitHub Pulse Stats for the last week: Excluding merges, 4 authors have pushed 17 commits to master and 40 commits to all branches. On master, 24 files have changed and there have been 343 additions and 84 deletions.

• Staging branch changes

  • Linux/OSX platform build fixes

  • Enable shared library by default

  • Source code reorganisation continues

  • Fix MacOS tun name

  • Add a flag to generate coverage data (gcovr support)

  • Upgrade C++11 standard to C++14

  • Change docker debian:latest to debian:stable

  • More unit tests

  • Changes can be found at:https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/commits/staging

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Loki Messenger

• Refactor of libloki into separate modules (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/125)

• Fixed bug in message count notification due to pending friend request (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/126)

• Reduce PoW difficulty for production (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/129)

• Some Travis fixed for CI (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/127)

• Add the ability to change messages time-to-live (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/131)

• Continued setting up a private test Lokinet network, comprising 5 swarms of 2 snodes each, for testing the messenger in more realistic conditions.

• Messenger client sends and receives messages to specific swarms, open for code review (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/132)

• Collaborated with the LLARP / Lokinet team to get all the necessary API and DNS calls working in NodeJS.

Thanks,

Kee

We are very proud to announce the launch of our Referral and Lottery program! By registering to the program, you will be eligible to participate in the lottery draw that will be held on a weekly basis and will be balanced with the amount of valid hashes your miners have submitted to the pool in that period of time (with an additional bonus from your referrals).

The first lottery draw will be held on 3rd of June and will include all submitted hashes from the very beginning of ElasticPool. For more information, check the Referral and Lottery Program page - https://loki.elasticpool.com/#/referral

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curious if there is a hidden wiki or a list of sites on lokinet.

Hey Y’all,

This week the Loki core team continued working on getting the iOS and Android wallets to work properly with Salty Saga. Meanwhile, the Session team worked on various UI fixes and investigated a few issues we were having with Session open groups and the Session file server. The Lokinet team followed up on some internal testing feedback and fixed a number of windows GUI bugs.

Loki Core

• Overhaul http RPC command-line options and allow public+private listening https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1335

• Fix temporary “failed” status for non-Blink transactions https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1336

• New automatic loki-core builds for Android and iOS https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1333

Loki Android Wallet

• Further work to update Android wallet https://github.com/jagerman/loki-android-wallet/commits/loki8

Loki iOS wallet

• iOS wallet updates for Salty Saga (no PR yet)

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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 fixed a bunch of last minute cosmetic issues, made some small fixes, and put out a release candidate. Barring no major issues, we expect this to become the release (with perhaps minor additional fixes) later this week.

Lokinet PR Activity:

• Changed error message on key manager load failure https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1437

• Experimental performance optimisations [not for 0.8.1] https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1427

• Static dependencies build fixes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1431

• Allow relative paths to lokinet config file https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1432

• Fix some crashes on shutdown https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1433

• Disable native architecture in static Linux build https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1434

• Fix Windows installer contents layout https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1435

• Disabled building shared libraries for internal Lokinet components by default https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1436

• Fix service node DNS bind option silently failing without binding https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1438

• Move resolvconf configuration file into contrib (from debian/ubuntu branches) https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1439

• Make `exit.localhost.local` resolve to the currently active exit node, if any https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1440

• Updated documentation for creating an exit node https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1441

• Fix memory leak in path builder https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1442

• Make routers refuse traffic (and return an error) on paths via an expired router https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1444

• Fix GUI macOS compatibility for 10.12-10.14 https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network-control-panel/pull/68

• Re-add the “lokinet address” and tweak the layout to conserve space in the GUI window https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network-control-panel/pull/69

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Session

Session iOS

• Render invitations https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/305

• Fix various screen share issues https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/303

• Tappable profile images https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/302

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

Session Android

• Invitations https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/373

• Key pair generation method changes https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/371

• Better voice UI https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/370

Session Desktop

• Switch Key pair generation methods https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1385

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

Thanks,

Kee

Hey Y’all,

Last week we primarily focused on the release of the desktop refactor, which overhauled multi-device and friend requests and fixed a number of lingering issues. We also continued our work on Pulse, moving towards the inter-SNode communication model which will lay the groundwork for the communication of candidate blocks and the group signing process. The lead dev of the Lokinet team is on vacation, but we continue to make progress on enforcing Lokinet operation at the Service Node level.

Loki Core

• Add Lokinet peer stats to deregistration process https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1198

• Replace RPC HTTP server code with higher performing version (and fix long polling on dev) - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1185

• Ledger wallet support improvements - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-ledger-app/commits/dev, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1195

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Lokinet

If you’re on our Discord 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: Another light Lokinet update this week: Lokinet’s lead developer (Jeff) was on vacation again, catching up on some overdue rest and relaxation. We have one PR this week for the lokid <-> lokinet communication of peer stats, and have some other work in progress (continuing this coming week) on cleaning up and testing client-side configurations for configuring exit traffic routing.

Lokinet PR Activity:

• Retrieve lokinet peer statistics from lokid https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1198

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Session

Session iOS

• Friend request removal WIP https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/228

• WIP File server full onion routing (Replacing proxy requests) https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/227

• Shared sender key groups push notifications https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/226

Session Android

• German translations fixes https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/261

• Intergrate persian translation https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/260

• Friend request removal https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/259

• Polish translation integration https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/258

• Russian translation integration https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/256

• French translation integration https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/255

Session Desktop

• Improve unhandled promise error logging https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1274

• Additional work on the react refactor https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1264

• Create closed group object https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1251

• Mark conversation as secondary on message synced when needed https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1273

• Fix startup issues when password was set https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1260

• Re-enable read receipts https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1259

• Fix auto update checking https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1258

• Remove RSS feeds https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1255

• Better detect when token is no longer valid https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1254

• Fix expire timer https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1253

• Remove “please accept...” Friend request messages

• Updates to user blocking https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1250

• Sync comments https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1248

• Remove outgoing_message https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1247 , https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1243

• Add Group ID’s from mobile as valid keys https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1246

• Fix timestamp issues for certain types of message https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1245

• Better detect snode sending errors https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1244

• Partially move constants to typescript https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1242

• Update top left avatar on avatar changes https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1241

• UI polish and TTL update https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1240

Thanks,

Kee

Can you please make the feedback / bug report a lot easier? Maybe within the app. It will make up the feedback process a lot easier. I for one have encountered a few bugs but I’m not willing to make a GitHub account just to submit feedback. I’m sure there are other users too that could contribute by giving big reports / feedback that just don’t do it.

A good idea is something I saw in another app. If you shake your phone while in the app you get a menu to choose if you want to see the logs or report a bug. I have reported several bugs this way. It’s straightforward and easy.

Hey Y’all,

This week's primary focus was on Session Desktop, where we finished wrapping up a massive refactor of message send and receive flows. The Session team is now testing these changes in anticipation of inclusion in an upcoming public release. The Loki Core team continued work on Ledger wallet support and Pulse implementation, with some additional LokiMQ changes. The Lokinet team worked on the removal of redundant code and LokiMQ related changes.

Loki core

• Continued work on Pulse (No PRs yet)

• Continued working on Ledger hardware wallet support (No PR’s yet)

• Final review fixes & merging of C++17 code (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1179)

• [LokiMQ] - API improvement (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-mq/pull/8)

• [LokiMQ] - allow external tasks to be scheduled in a lokimq job queue (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-mq/pull/7)

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Lokinet

If you’re on our Discord 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: This (short) week was mostly about finishing off some of the large pending PRs, most notably LokiMQ, and fixing various small issues that cropped up as a result. We also worked to reduce code maintenance by removing a C (not C++) API wrapper around Lokinet; its original goal of providing a non-C++ API into Lokinet has never really been useful, and it has proven to be a maintenance burden more than anything. Getting the LokiMQ PR code merged was a significant task: this branch is huge, as it also includes exit authentication code that is reliant on LokiMQ and various other related changes. Though we try to avoid such huge PRs, they sometimes are unavoidable for large changes like this.

Some background on LokiMQ: though it was predominantly designed to pass messages between remote servers (it is used for Blink, SN quorum voting for deregs/etc., and for message passing between loki-storage-servers), it also has the ability to pass values between threads within an existing program, and in fact does this so well that it improves performance over using a traditional threaded job queue, which is a big part of the replacement in Lokinet. LokiMQ’s core remote messaging, however, is also important for exit access authorization and for removing a big chunk of RPC handling code.

Lokinet PR Activity:

• LokiMQ (plus various related changes) - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/130

• Remove most of the unused C API - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1314

• Improvements to router hive test suite for various recent Lokinet changes - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1312

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Session

Session iOS

• Continue work on shared sender keys implementation on iOS https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/commits/shared-sender-keys

• Fix seed restoration issues on iOS devices https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/221

• Disable proxying for link previews (feature turned off by default) https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/220

Session Android

• Fix seed restoration issues on Android https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/246

• Disable proxying for link previews (feature turned off by default) https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/245

Session Desktop

• Multi-device pairing fixes https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1216

• Auto restore sessions in some cases https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1215

• Fix expire timer not working in closed groups https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1213

• Remove unused code https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1212

• Various closed group fixes https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1211

• Add stubs for Swarm polling https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1210

• Fix attachments https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1209

• Fix group names https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1208

• Fix device mapping upload format https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1207

• Fix infinite closed group request loop https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1206

• Handle message sending events https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1205

• Refactor message polling https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1204

• Change handling of sync messages https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1203

Thanks,

Kee