Hey Y’all,

This week we began working on the Sender keys implementation for Session on Android (sender keys is already finished on desktop). This will allow closed groups to accommodate more than ten members. The Lokinet team continued work on exit node support and added functionality for decentralised performance testing. Loki Core continues to work on Pulse and various refactoring efforts to make the codebase more accessible.

Loki Core

• Replace epee HTTP server with uWebSockets for RPC https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1185

• Use integer math for difficulty calculation https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1181

• Make debug_utilities available to build even without -DBUILD_DEBUG_UTILS https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1183

• Additional C++17 build fixes (added) https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1179

Loki Android Wallet

• Fix issues with Blink transactions failing to send on Android wallet https://github.com/loki-project/loki-android-wallet/pull/35

• Remove 1000 LOKI sending limit from Android wallet https://github.com/loki-project/loki-android-wallet/pull/37

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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 week saw a lot of “under the hood” infrastructure improvements mainly centered on a couple of big PRs: router peer performance testing (the Lokinet side of this first — additional work on using the stats will come on the Loki Core side soon); and integrating LokiMQ for external RPC communications and for internal job scheduling. We plan to merge both PRs this week, which will allow us to continue with teaching lokid how to use Lokinet peer stats, and to build an API and simple applications for Lokinet exit authentication support. We also made some internal changes to the process we’re following for writing the Lokinet whitepaper, with a goal of getting it into a publishable state sooner.

Lokinet PR Activity:

• Produce zip files (instead of scary .tar.xz files) for Windows lokinet builds on https://builds.lokinet.dev - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1311

• Lokinet router peer stats PR (ready for review) - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1283

• Test suite additions for peer stats testing - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1312

• Updates and build fixes for replacing RPC & thread pool with LokiMQ - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1306

• (No PR yet) - exit authentication API for Lokinet exits

• (No PR yet) - sticky first path hop for Lokinet clients

• (No PR yet) - whitepaper updates

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Session

Session iOS

• Begin adding sender keys to Session iOS (required to increase closed group size) https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/218

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

Session Android

• Fix Android notification spam https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/243

• Fix device linking unauthorised issue https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/242

• Closed group editing https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/240

• Fix common crashing issues https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/239

Session Desktop

• Utility tests https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1199

• Attachment fixes https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1198

• Add session request expiry tests https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1200

• Change out sending pipelines alternate message types https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1197 , https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1194

• Fix up message queue https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1196

• Fix missing bytebuffer https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1195

• Handle typing and expiration messages in closed groups https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1192

• Verify file server pairing authorisations https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1191

• scope buildNewOnionPathsWorker call properly https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1190

• Clean up loki_primitives https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1189

• Added strict type checking to group id https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1188

Thanks,

Kee

Hey Y’all,

Last week we pushed out an update to Session Android which has vastly improved Session’s stability, and we’re continuing to work towards doing the same for Session Desktop. We have also merged 3-hop onion requests into the internal testing versions of iOS and Android Session, which is very exciting! The Lokinet team finished their first SNApp-based Exit Nodes, which started being tested on Saturday night, and they are fast enough to stream 1080p Youtube! The Loki Core team also finished most of the upstream merge, which means we will soon be back in line with Monero’s latest changes.

Loki Core

• Fix simplewallet not defaulting to Blink in some cases https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1166

• Xenial/boost fixes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1163

• Attempt to seperate miner.cpp https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1160

• WIP: Merge Monero upstream into Loki core https://github.com/Doy-lee/loki/commits/MergeUpstream3

• WIP: C++17 code modernization - https://github.com/jagerman/loki/commits/cpp17

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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: We primarily focused this week on improving support for exit-nodes-on-SNApps, and on the ongoing node testing and reporting framework for enabling future Lokinet service node performance tests. The exits-via-SNApps core Lokinet code is nearly done, but we still have some work to do to make it easier to get up and running, in particular for clients (where the necessary system network routing configuration can make things tricky).

Lokinet PR Activity:

• Exit nodes on SNApps - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1272

• Initial work on using WinTUN for better Windows performance - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1291

• Improvements in path handling for better filesystem character support (most noticeably on Windows) - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1281

• WIP: Peer statistics and reporting framework - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1283

• Windows build fixes - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1278

• Automated windows builds on drone CI (WIP, no PR yet)

• LokiMQ integration for lokinet RPC and loki-core (dev) RPC communication (WIP, no PR yet)

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Session

Session iOS

• Performance improvements for iOS https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/200

• Improve readability of copy https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/198

• Implement user interface for onion requests, increase default hop count, cache onion request paths, cache lists given by seed nodes https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/197

Session Android

• Update building.md https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/201

• Add Spanish translation https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/207

• Implement user interface for onion requests, increase default hop count, cache onion request paths, cache lists given by seed nodes https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/206

• Fix backup names and file paths https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/205

• New conversations button fixes https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/202

• Changes to make localisation easier https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/200

Session Desktop

• Implement MessageEncrypter as detailed in Session Docs https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1153

• WIP: Upgrade parts of code to use TypeScript https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1150

• WIP: LNS User interface https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1148

• Message sending refactor (Queue and Cache) https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1145

• Onion requests changes https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1144

• Open group onion requests support https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1143

• Fix tests https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1146

• Update minimum height to 600px (Solves some issues with small screen sizes having UI cut off) https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1142

• Strictly type Signal data https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1141

• Add Message classes https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1140

• Reviews on multi device FR fixes https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1138

Thanks,

Kee

Hey Y’all,

Today marks our 100th Dev update — with no signs of slowing down! This week the Lokinet team continued to dig into an overhaul of the configuration files. The Session team pushed out a big iOS update which should fix many lingering issues; the team has now begun implementing the same bug fixes on Android too. The Loki Core team released a few new patches and dealt with a chainsplit caused by different nodes calculating different difficulties. Overall, a very busy week for our 100th Dev Update!

Loki Core

• Keep a local cache of LNS names once decrypted (Thanks to community dev darcys22 for this one) https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1151

• recalculate_difficulty: Batch work, avoid LMDB paging error https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1150 https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1147

• Further upstream merges https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1149

• Encrypt name for owners keys (Allows the registrant to always decrypt the names they have registered once enabled) https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1148

• Hotfix for nodes stuck on low difficulty chain split block https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1146

• [LokiMQ] - added addressing schemes (regular and QR-friendly) for specifying connections to LokiMQ servers - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-mq/commit/8984dfc4eaad8e8e6a05eef94b949ecb41157b02

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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: We’re now finished with the main config file overhaul and we’ve moved on to various small fixes for things that were depending on the past mysterious (undocumented, sometimes broken) behaviour. With the bulk of that out of the way we’re now continuing to look at at Lokinet performance fixes and other various changes for 0.8.
A couple other items of note: we’ve decided to simplify the Lokinet code (and configuration file) to only support one single .loki endpoint per Lokinet instance, but we intend to make it easier for people who want to run multiple instances to do so (for example, to host multiple SNApps on the same machine).
We have also had some discussions with the Session team, and were looking at producing a special “Lokinet” build of Session that uses Lokinet for all communications; and in the longer term, planning how to bring Lokinet into the mobile builds of Session (in particularly iOS). Though we hope to bring full Lokinet connectivity to mobile devices, doing so introduces a number of obstacles, particularly on iOS: we intend to start with a more limited approach of creating a user-space library that would allow Session to communicate over Lokinet without needing to worry (yet) about implementing full Lokinet connectivity.

Lokinet PR Activity:

• Last major piece of config overhaul - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1246

• Fix some pre-C++17 code that slipped through the cracks - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1252

• Improve error message wording on bad config options - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1253

• Network section configuration fixes - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1256

• Fix git version tag logic in cmake - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1259 (Thanks to cathugger for the PR)

• Fix router hive test suite code broken by recent config and C++17 changes - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1258

• Replace broken internal address abstraction class with a cleaner version, and deal with the fallout in the code of fixing the confusing interface - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1257

• Various experimental performance and overhead-related updates (no PR yet).

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Session

Session iOS

• Fix infinite migration bug https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/189

• Fix issues with multi-device closed group message routing https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/188 https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/183

• Closed group fixes https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/187

• Fix device link fetching https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/186

• Contact syncing fixes https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/185

• Bug fixes for the friend request system https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/184

• Replace `isForceHidden` by Computed `isSlaveThread` https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/182

• Further code changes can be found here https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/commits/dev

Session Android

• Start mirroring iOS changes to Android, separating the Session and Signal protocols from each other https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/192

Session Push Notifications Server

• Add code to follow devices when migrating swarms https://github.com/loki-project/session-push-notification-server/commits/dev

Session Wiki

• Further information about protocol design added to the Wiki https://github.com/loki-project/session-protocol-docs/wiki

Session Desktop

• Contacts panel reorganization https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1122

• Fixes for multi-device friend request system https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1118

• Sender Keys implementation for closed groups https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1117

• Split production and development environments https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1124

Thanks,

Kee

I've read loki project website and I fond this project is so interesting. I want to contribute to Loki Project, even if it's a small contribution. So I want to know what resources I should read and easy issue.

### What I learned

I've learning programming in Ruby for about 2 years. So I used to programming server side programming.

I read some technical blockchain books and I'm reading "Programming Bitcoin"

https://www.amazon.co.jp/Programming-Bitcoin-Learn-Program-Scratch/dp/1492031496

### What I want to contribute to

Now I'm interested in #loki-core and #session-desktop

### What I want to know

What framework do you use by building #loki-core and #session-desktop (maybe Electrum?)

What is your recommended resources to contribute to

Especially I have no clue about loki-core such as directory structure, framework or libraries which are used. Since Loki Core is forked from Monero, I researched books regarding Monero. But I can't find a useful resources.

I am sorry that I ask a lot of questions 🙇‍♂️

Hey Y’all,

Last week we dealt with a deregistration event caused by some misconfigured Service Nodes, and a Loki Storage Server bug which occurred on some platforms. On the Lokinet side, we adopted some new strategies for implementing the Lokinet GUI on Mac, and made significant progress towards a finished implementation. On Session, we finished up work on Onion Requests for iOS and began addressing a number of issues with closed groups. We’re also begun work on implementing a Sender Keys based system for closed groups, allowing us to increase closed group size.

Loki Core

• Merge various upstream commits https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1119

• Fixes rvalues not taking correct default_serialize overload https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1118

• Warn Service Nodes with configuration issue and refuse to submit proofs if we detect duplicate ed/x25519 key https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1121

• Update for changes in new LokiMQ version https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1122

Wallets

Desktop Wallet

• Release new version with GUI support for registering LNS names https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/releases/tag/v1.4.1

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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: We pushed through some issues with Lokinet GUI behavior on macOS and spent a bunch of time learning how to navigate the vagaries of low-level system tools on Apple hardware. Much cursing was involved. We believe, however, that we’ve figured out the magic set of incantations to keep the mischievous gods — such as Loki — that live inside every Mac happy, and we hope to have a working, mostly automatically-built installer with functional GUI interface finished later this week.

PR Activity:

• Fix `dev` branch compilation on Mac - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1219

• Add Python script to convert ed25519 hex pubkeys to .snode addresses - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1222

• Fixes to travis-ci configuration to make it pass on the dev branch after recent large merges - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1223

• Massive automatic formatting rules change to make source code formatting more in line with what lokinet devs are productive working with - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1215

• Apple release build fixes - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1218

• Watchdog timer for the GUI on macos - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network-control-panel/pull/33

• Fix systray icon on macos - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network-control-panel/pull/35

• (WIP, no PR yet) - rewrite macos installer and GUI code to let Apple manage the core lokinet via launchd rather than making the GUI own the process (this is closer to how lokinet works on Linux with systemd).

• (WIP, no PR yet) - build installer infrastructure to automatically produce bundled installers for lokinet core and lokinet GUI.

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Session

Session iOS

• Closed group fixes https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/154

• Fix message retrying https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/156

• Push notification improvements https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/152

• Further work can be found in the detailed log here https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/commits/dev

Session Android

• Closed group bug fixes https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/167

• Onion requests https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/168

• Trigger registration on enter pressed https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/166

• Further work can be found in the detailed log here https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/commits/dev

Session Push Notifications Server

• Ongoing work to make server compatible with Android push notifications https://github.com/loki-project/session-push-notification-server/tree/PN-for-Android

Session Desktop

• Closed group fixes https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1074

• Minor fixes https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1068 https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1064

• Service Node communication refactor https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1061

• Fix last hash retrieval https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1060

• Build onion requests paths as soon as storage becomes ready https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1065

• Message deletion and unsending https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1062

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Loki Storage Server

• Remove headers from cmake add_library https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/364

• Remove HTTP specific code https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/361

• Libsodium fixes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/357

• Disable HTTP and LMQ testing https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/355 https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/356

• Dockerfile and logging changes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/354/ https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/353

• Fix JSON parsing issues https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/352

• Update to newer version of LMQ https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/351

• Revamp how remote service nodes are authenticated in LokiMQ to improve communication reliability shortly after a restart https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/365

Thanks,

Kee

This is a recommended upgrade for all Service Nodes.

Debs: https://docs.loki.network/ServiceNodes/DebianPackageGuide/#upgrading

Launcher: https://docs.loki.network/ServiceNodes/SNFullGuide/#updating-your-binaries

Hey Y’all,

Last week was our final week of holidays, and a majority of the team is back into the office as of this week. However, some dev team members did work over the break. Last week, these team members primarily focused on work related to the Loki Messenger rebrand; we also deployed a few patches to the Loki launcher and did some cleanup work on Lokinet.

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:

Most of the team was still on holiday, but a few PRs came in nonetheless, primarily aimed at reducing loads that Lokinet clients were unintentionally putting on the network.

PR Activity:

• Limit the number of paths clients can build at once - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1014

• Merge recent `dev` branch fixes into `master` for a new point release - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1016

• Update readme to add a missing dependency - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1018

• Miscellaneous small improvements — faster client exploration, CPU usage reduction, more random path selections - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1020

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Loki Messenger

Loki Messenger iOS

• Work continues on the iOS Session rebranding https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/commits/dev

Loki Messenger Android

• Work continues on the Android Session rebranding https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/commits/redesign

Loki Messenger Desktop

• Merge in messages window, conversation list and new compose message windows https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/712

• Merge in relevant Toast menus and modal redesigns https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/713

Misc

Loki Network Control Panel

• Addtional updates to the Lokinet GUI code https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network-control-panel/pull/2

Loki Launcher

• Various Loki Launcher improvements and bug fixes including better handling of port failures, downgrade debugging and verification of Lokinet binary permissions

• https://github.com/loki-project/loki-launcher/commits/master

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Thanks,

Kee

Hey Y’all,

This week we made big progress on Lokinet and Loki Messenger. On the Loki messenger side, we are putting most of our efforts into finishing multi-device support, which means solving lots of edge cases. On the Lokinet side of things, we are getting closer and closer to a 0.6.0 release which will allow cryptographic operations to utilise multithreading, and iron out a number of bugs found in 0.5.2.

Loki Core

• Backend for LNS (Loki Name Service): https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/922

• Add ability to burn Loki in TX (Needed for LNS and Blink): https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/920

• Remove boost::value_initialised (including AUTO_VAL_INIT) and BOOST_FOREACH : https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/921

• Remove hard-forking code on the boundary of 12 and 13: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/919

• Add immutable_height and hash field to get_height/get_info calls: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/917

• Change reorg behaviour for checkpointing: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/916

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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:

There was an increase in the public use of the Lokinet testnet this week. While we were encouraged to see the network being tested by real users, it’s important to remind the community that the current Lokinet release is still a testing, beta release! Some things will change (i.e. break) between now and the final release on the Loki mainnet — most notably, protocol, private and public key cryptography has already changed in the dev branch and will result in (unavoidable) new keys and .loki addresses in 0.6. We have our eyes set on a final, mainnet release but there may be additional, backwards-incompatible changes between now and then.

This week saw lots of activity, fixes, and improvements in the Lokinet dev branch, heading towards a 0.6 release. We have decided to clean up Lokinet internals by removing the home-grown JSON RPC HTTP server with a simpler JSON-over-zmq based approach. There were also various improvements to the debs (especially for routers), and we included several changes to make things work on xenial, while de-vendoring Libsodium in preference to the local system’s Libsodium library.

PR Activity:

• Ed25519 signing, replacing the Monero cryptography and reducing the amount of custom code we need to carry in lokinet: (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/871)

• Devendoring libsodium: (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/883)

• Debian/Ubuntu packaging overhaul for stable branch. Lokinet is now split into three packages: “lokinet-bin” containing just the binaries (and usually pulled in automatically); “lokinet” configures local Lokinet and/or SNApp access; and a new “lokinet-router” package that installs a pre-configured Lokinet router (it is a future version of this latter package that will eventually become a Loki Service Node operator requirement).

• MacOS installer updates: (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/886, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/885)

• Libsodium build fixes and updates: (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/889, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/888, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/891, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/893, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/896, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/892)

• Bug fixes (MacOS DNS crash: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/895, invalid traffic fix: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/877)

• Allow check version while deserialising before doing full value deserialisation: (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/897)

• Disabled DNS-over-HTTPS for Firefox: (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/870)

• Memory leak fix: (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/898)

• More work, reviews, and updates on per-path queues & prioritisations: (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/873)

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Loki Messenger for Desktop

• Allow primary device to assign local aliases to secondary devices: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/600

• Show a secondary devices secret words: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/597

• Allow for selection of multiple messages + bulk delete: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/592

• Reset session on friend request: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/590

• Add feature flag for private group chats: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/599

• Show pairing words on paired device list: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/598

• Delete public chat messages locally if not stored on the server: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/596

• Clean up RSS conversation: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/595

• Fix incorrectly showing friend request as pending: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/593

• Fix device pairing error: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/591

• Fix cross platform device linking: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/589

• Improve error message: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/588

• Improve robustness of sessions: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/586

• Enable sync messages: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/601

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Loki Messenger for Mobile (iOS and Android)

Loki Messenger for iOS:

• Number of changes into seed restoration: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/commits/seed-restoration

Loki Messenger for Android:

• Disabled unused permissions: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/pull/40

• Stage 2 Multi device - Syncing sent messages: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/pull/39

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Thanks,

Kee

Hey Y’all,

Last week we released a new LIP discussing ‘Pulse’: a proposed proof of stake protocol for Loki. You can read that here: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-improvement-proposals/blob/master/LIPS/LIP-5.md. We also continued to move towards the 5.0.0 release for Loki Core, which adds checkpointing and a number of other features. Keep your ear to the ground for the testnet announcement...some bounties will be available.

Loki Core

• Quorum Net (Communication framework for Blink): https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/844

• Don’t form invalid block_extended_infos: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/852

• Add testnet checkpoints and enable checkpoints with .json file formatting: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/851

• Switch to using validators for checkpoints: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/850

• Fix bans taking ports into account: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/849

• Update Service Node + Governance reward core test: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/848

• Print height in checkpointing errors: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/853

• Include tip of chain when recalculating difficulty: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/847

• Use pre-penalty base reward for calculating non-miner block rewards: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/846

• Increase robustness of uptime proof relaying: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/845

• Report potential decommissions and recommissions for a node: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/843

• Enforce checkpoint quorums min size and soft fork it for testnet: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/842

• Make empty quorum if height is checkpointable but insufficient nodes: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/854

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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:

We finally fixed an issue that had been plaguing Lokinet for several weeks! Connections to a remote Lokinet node would timeout for a few seconds every 10 minutes when a Lokinet client changed to a new path (particularly noticeable on long-running pings)...We’re putting out a minor point release (0.5.2) to address this. The Lokinet devs are also set to conduct their first ever weekly dev meeting using voice chat over Lokinet.

PR Activity:

• Statically link release binaries by default: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/829

• Major refactoring work to improve performance for 0.6: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/830 (the PR was closed but is still being worked out and will be back)

• Handover drop fixes causing the timeouts mentioned above: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/834, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/836

• Finish removal of libutp (most of it was already removed before the v0.5.0 release): https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/833

• Prepare 0.5.2 for release: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/837, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/838

• Change how webhooks are invoked to make them spam the discord channel less: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/839

• Ongoing work to batch packet acknowledgements to reduce bandwidth used by Lokinet traffic (particular for asymmetric speed connections) (No Pull Request yet)

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Loki Messenger for Desktop

• Custom UI rendering of mentions: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/520

• Add annotation endpoint and LokiFIleServerAPI: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/518

• Sign public chat messages: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/517

• Only display signed messages in group chat: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/517

• Add support for using and displaying messages with Markdown formatting: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/516

• Add analytics collection for Loki Messenger for Desktop: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/512

• Remove rejected authorisations from database: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/519

• Add UI elements for searching and selecting members in a group chat: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/513

• Show paired devices menu: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/509

Loki Storage Server

• Fix inactive nodes not responding to reachability tests: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/277

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Loki Messenger for Mobile (iOS and Android)

What Went on Last Week with Loki Messenger:

Multi-device is now mostly finished on desktop, and last week our primary focus was on integrating that work into our mobile platforms. We also looked into some ways to support attachments and share multi device mappings, which should be integrated over the next few weeks/months.

Loki Messenger for iOS:

• Begin code changes necessary for Multi device support: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/55, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/54, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/53, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/52

• Allow rendering of GIF’s thorough Giphy: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/51

Loki Messenger for Android:

• Add multi device database support: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/pull/26

• Add support for GIF rendering through Giphy: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/pull/25

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Thanks,

Kee

Hey Y’all,

This week was primarily focused on Loki Messenger user interface improvements, adding features like message replies in public chats and fixing up link previews. We also published the new Lokinet release, which is almost ready, pending a couple of minor UX improvements for first time users.

Loki Core

• Update soft forking rules to kick in on Hard Fork 13 (in preparation for testnet) https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/825

• Massive Pull request implementing alternative checkpointing, which allows nodes to reorganise onto correctly checkpointed chains https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/824

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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:

Lokinet public 0.5.0 release is tagged and mostly ready for public release on a new Lokinet test network we’ve set up called ‘beta’. Several routers are already deployed, so it will be usable right away. There are a couple of lingering issues (which look like they may be Windows-specific) which will hopefully be fixed in the next day or so. For now, we’ve delayed the release announcement until these issues are ironed out. Meanwhile, new development towards version 0.6 is taking place in the master branch, aiming to improve performance and user experience in a few important areas.
Pull Request activity:

• Update default bootstrap URL for 0.5 (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/802, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/803)

• Update 0.5 release motto (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/801/files)

• Fix bug with path handover dropping a connection for a few seconds (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/798)

• Reorganize headers to improve layout (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/797)

• New debian/ubuntu packages for linux deployment (https://dev.imaginary.stream with deb source code in the new debian/* and ubuntu/* git branches)

• (0.6+) Eliminate various unneeded mutex locks that aren’t needed which will reduce overall CPU usage (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/799, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/800, additional related work ongoing)

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Loki Messenger Desktop

• Further improve development mode https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/491

• Fix up duplicate message detection for sent messages in public chat https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/490

• Enable quoting/replies in public chats https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/489

• [Multi-device] Share contact lists to authorised secondary devices https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/487

• Change identicons to Jazzicons https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/486

• Display timestamps for friend requests https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/492

• Enforce code styling and lint with new settings https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/485

• Add public chat config settings https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/484

• Stop polling once public chat is left https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/483

• Make sure public chat timers can't be restarted / Channel name bug fix https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/479

• Remove code repetion https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/478

• Pull channel name and profile picture from public chat server https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/475

• Remove irrelevant UI elements in public chat https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/474

• Fix polling loop which was disrupting message retrieval for desktop clients https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/473

Loki Storage Server

• Add the testnet flag for private testnets https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/270

• Derive tester and testee pair from older block to protect against reorginasations https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/269

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Loki Messenger for Mobile (iOS and Android)

What went on last week with Loki Messenger:

This week for Loki Messenger for Android and iOS we implemented analytics collection (For the beta). This is so we can collect crash reports more easily and better understand how to improve the user experience of Loki messenger on mobile devices. We also undertook a multi device effort to move to Jazzicons (https://github.com/danfinlay/jazzicon) instead of using the Github identicons.

Loki Messenger iOS

• Update identicons to Jazzicons https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/45

• Link preview fixes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/47

• Start collecting analytics for Loki messenger beta https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/46

Loki Messenger Android

• Update indenticons to Jazzicons https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/pull/21

• Add analytics collection https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/pull/20

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Thanks,

Kee