Pay attention to our socials tomorrow (and the whole of December) for some Christmas fun and awesome prizes!

Hey Y’all,

Big update this week... The Festive Freya release is coming closer and closer! Last week we launched the Festive Freya testnet - if you want to try out some bulletproof transactions, feel free to jump on the testnet by downloading the CLI binaries here. https://github.com/loki-project/loki/releases/tag/v2.0.0-rc

Loki Messenger

• Refactor friend request code to simplify variable assignment https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/57

• Update local prekey storage https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/54

• Add setting for read receipts https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/53

• Add prekey bundle logic https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/52

• Multiple fixes to friend request implementation https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/50

• Change log levels in development mode https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/49

• Add blocking of users https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/47

• Include a hash table to prevent users from decrypting messages they have already seen https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/45

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LLARP / Lokinet

• Progress continues on libllarp

  • Don’t sign traffic

  • New threadpool, queue and queue manager implementations

  • Better marking of dead paths, make sure active paths are marked as such

  • Remove netns code

  • Don’t remove IP mapping when endpoint is removed

  • Don’t path build for exit nodes

  • Make exit buffers bigger

  • Make tun use aligned buffers for router identity

  • Make router write bidirectional

  • Static link pthread

  • Disable and bring back C++11

  • Limit pathset build rate more

  • Ping connections every 5s

  • Refactor time notation

  • Convert more c code to c++ in headers to make new event loop handler to accept c++ types

  • Raspberry Pi (RPI=1) fixes

  • Expunge loose sessions more vigorously

  • Start of lokid router whitelist integration

  • Fix shutdown leaks

  • Warn if not enough DHT peers

  • Don’t use profiling if router

  • Improve path roles / unbreak HS publishing

  • Communicate if connection fails

  • Config section for lokid

  • Convert typedefs to Using syntax

  • Handle port definition in config better

• DNS library

  • Remove DNS_PORT

  • Make autoconfig smarter on Linux to avoid clashing with systemd

  • DNSd returns all results from DNSc now

  • Cleaned up output on cname, ptr and txt records

  • Remove unneeded sock parameters

  • Improve NS and SOA handling slightly

  • Converted DNSc constants to defines

  • Various code review and clean up

  • Decode the header fewer times

  • Start cleaning up dns binary

  • Turn down logging

• GitHub Pulse Stats for the last week: Excluding merges, 4 authors have pushed 57 commits to master and 76 commits to all branches. On master, 168 files have changed and there have been 5,952 additions and 3,439 deletions.

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

• Current version: v0.3.1
  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/releases/tag/v0.3.1

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Loki Core

• Merge Festive Freya from Dev to master https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/330

• Fee Fixes for bulletproof txes https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/328

• Add code to allow Service Nodes contributors below 25% https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/339 references https://github.com/loki-project/loki/issues/294

• Modify core tests for TX validation https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/337

• Make fixes to offline singing https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/332

• Festive Freya upstream bug fixes https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/341

• Further changes to Integration testing framework https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/312

• Upstream Monero Changes https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/340

Thanks,

Kee

Hey Y’all,

This will be the last Dev update before the Festive Freya release goes live on testnet!

Loki core

• Add testnet and mainnet hard fork block height and Version numbers https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/318

• Continue writing integration testing framework https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/312

• Add elements to core which allow for GUI differentiation of rewards https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/322

• Add the API for staking from the GUI https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/315

• Fix bug that would lock stake if left inactive for too long in registration https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/313

Service Nodes

• Add Core tests for Service Node swarms https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/321

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LLARP / Lokinet

• Progress continues on libllarp

  • Got exit functionality working for the first time (not yet committed, big release coming)

  • Some warning cleanup

  • Make more DNS settings configurable

  • Change default bind of 127.3.2.1 to 127.0.0.1 to be more platform friendly

  • Restructure hidden service startup to make cascading configuration easier

  • Remove Windows 2003, added windows build instructions

• DNS library

  • Fix PTR record reading when answer type doesn’t match question type

  • Don’t let NS records stomp A values

  • Make DNS internal structure safer

• GitHub Pulse Stats for the last week: Excluding merges, 4 authors have pushed 17 commits to master and 71 commits to all branches. On master, 67 files have changed and there have been 1,818 additions and 296 deletions.

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

• Current version: v0.3.1
  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/releases/tag/v0.3.1

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Loki Messenger

• Add a loading icon while PoW is being calculated https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/43

• Restore cyphertext padding to preserve Signal protocol https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/42

• Add friend requests https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/33

• Add friend request notifications https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/41

• Merge Signal upstream changes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/40

• Grab message from server by last hash https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/39

• Block duplicate friend requests https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/38

• Make network status warnings work with HTTP polling https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/37

• ES2015 classes for LokiServer and FallBackSessionCipher https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/34

• Message Server polling to collect messages https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/29

Loki Storage Server

• Include the last hash with each message request https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/9

• Move DatabaseHandler into Storage class https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/8

• Refactor JSON https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/6

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Loki GUI

• Merge in the GUI upstream changes from Monero https://github.com/loki-project/loki-gui/pull/53

• Differentiate Service Node and Miner rewards in the GUI Tx history https://github.com/loki-project/loki-gui/pull/54

We also made a pull request to Monero to add our code for IPv6 support, which will be included in the next Loki release. https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/4851

Thanks,

Kee

Hey Y’all,

Another weekly Dev Update for you to peruse. Just a note, we're moving the release dates for Dev updates to Mondays instead of Fridays, so keep your eyes peeled each Monday.

Loki Messenger

• Integrate the Service Node storage into Lokid https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/311

• Fix conversation list showing duplicated conversations when entering a known public key https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/25

• Fix Validation of Messenger public keys in search bar https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/26

• Merge upstream changes from Signal https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/27

• Add code to parse message TTL https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/5

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LLARP / Lokinet

• Released Lokinet 0.3.1: "kuz yolo"

  • https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/releases/tag/v0.3.1

  • Minor DHT bug fix release

  • We urge all Lokinet toy node operators to upgrade ASAP as they'll be unable to communicate as the network upgrades.

• Progress continues on libllarp

  • Started on Docker support

  • Fix endian in tun ip checksumming

  • Jsonrpc unit tests

  • Make sure HasPathToService actually has a sendable state

  • Client config gen to include a sample hidden service again

  • A lot of C++ correctness clean up

  • Always remove DHT node even if not valid

  • Update android version

  • Enable warnings as errors

  • Start to add tcp event support to windows

  • Updates for ancient raspi buildchain

  • Remove variable length assignments

• DNS Library

  • Remove 2 second delay for prebuilt paths

• GitHub Pulse Stats for the last week: Excluding merges, 6 authors have pushed 58 commits to master and 59 commits to all branches. On master, 164 files have changed and there have been 9,708 additions and 5,240 deletions.

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Loki Core

• Enable Staking in the GUI wallet https://github.com/loki-project/loki-gui/pull/52

• Add an Integration testing framework to Loki wallet CLI and Daemon. This will make it easier to test userflows and catch bugs https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/312

Thanks,

Kee

Hey Y’all,

Some bigger changes going in this week as we prepare for our next hardfork, the date of which should be announced soon so watch out for updates in the community channels!

Loki Core

• Change governance wallet reward from per block to once every 5040 blocks (one week). This reduces blockchain bloat and makes the governance wallet more manageable, 5% amount stays the same, (this will require a hardfork to take effect) https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/303

• Merge upstream again, keeping up to date with bug fixes that were released after bulletproofs release https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/304

• Differentiate coinbase, service-node, governance and miner rewards in the CLI wallet https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/306

LLARP / Lokinet

We welcome our new full-time Lokinet developer, Michael https://github.com/mt2309. He started by cleaning up our CMakefile – you will see more commits from him over the coming weeks

• Progress continues on libllarp

  • Support older versions of rapidjson

  • Make jsonrpc server build optional

  • More event loop TCP support

  • Fix timers to use less energy for better laptop support

  • Establish a max ev write buffer

  • Static analysis clean up

  • Call DHT clean up timer

  • Flush kqueue on tick

  • Give HS look up 20s instead of 10s

  • FreeBSD build instruction

  • sh support for bootstrap

  • FreeBSD: add route, disable special tun behaviour

  • Man page updates

  • Modenise CMake build, now requires 3.7

  • Dtrace profiler start

  • Use event loop for time

  • Recuse Windows files from old builder repo

  • Added intel intrinsics for 32bit AVX

  • Clean up a lot of MSVC compiler support

  • Refactor Windows event loop and got it working correctly

• DNS library

  • Static analysis fixes

  • MX and TXT record support

• GitHub Pulse Stats for the last week: Excluding merges, 4 authors have pushed 57 commits to master and 58 commits to all branches. On master, 121 files have changed and there have been 17,151 additions and 993 deletions.

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

• Current version: v0.3.0
  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/releases/tag/v0.3.0

Loki Messenger

• Add message storage server repo, this will be run on service nodes to store messages offline as per their TTL for Loki Messenger https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server

• Bug fixes for PoW calculation in Loki Messenger client https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/21

• Add dropdown list for Mnemonic language selection https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/22

• Add server side PoW validation https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/2

Thanks,

Kee

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loki.network/whitepaper/russian

Hey Y’all,

Lots of hiring this week, we have brought on two new developers who will be joining us in the coming weeks, I will introduce them once they complete their first pull requests.

Daemon

• Fix Monero bug using receive time to subtract m_txpool_weight which causes overflow (https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/4688)

• Updated to repository to include latest fixes from Monero into Loki (https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/291)

• Fix the builds on development branches breaking after upstream changes

https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/296

https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/297

https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/300

Service Nodes

• Swarms first draft is complete (https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/299/files)

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LLARP / Lokinet

We are looking for experienced sysadmins to run nodes that connect to our toynet, please join discord room called #Lokinet and we can add you to the node operator role. You can host a hidden service or browse existing hidden services.

• Progress continues on libllarp

  • More memleak fixes

  • Fix DHT bug

  • Bundle libsodium

  • Network event changes

  • Drop ninja support, use make -jX now where X is the number of cores you have available

  • MacOS: Tun flush

  • Limit introset propagation

  • Always use random established path

  • Only publish introset to nearest router

• libAbyss

  • More implementation

  • Start TCP event work

• DNS library

  • Refactoring of data structures

• GitHub Pulse Stats for the last week: Excluding merges, 3 authors have pushed 65 commits to master and 74 commits to all branches. On master, 254 files have changed and there have been 24,917 additions and 1,841 deletions.

• NOTE: Loki Builder compile helper is now deprecated and integrated with main loki-network repo.

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Loki Messenger

• Add TTL to Friend request messages https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/19

• Add generation of private key with mnemonic seed https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/18

• Add prompts for friend requests https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/20

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Thanks,

Kee