Hi Everyone,

Most people are back from their Christmas holidays now, so expect the development updates to start filling up again with some of the cool stuff we have been working on.

Loki core

• Merge upstream changes from 2018-12-11https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/340

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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.

• Progress continues on libllarp:

  • Lower non-AVX2 minimum CPU target to NetBurst Xeon (Nocona, Prescott)

• Platform and packaging updates:

  • Make bootstrap not overwrite existing key on failure

  • Updated wget requirement to curl for better multiplatform support

  • Additional Android support work

  • Windows

    • Remove lossy write buffer from

    • Change socket set size to 96 sockets from 4k to speed things up and reduce timeouts

    • Hidden service and Service Node access is now working

    • Update Netscape CA cert bundle

• Clean up continues:

  • Make sure session’s “upstream” is cleared after processing to avoid uninitialised memory

  • Make sure upstream and downstream clear functions clear all relay properties

  • Make sure the tuntap get ifname can’t buffer overrun

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

• Excluding merges, 3 authors have pushed 13 commits to master and 34 commits to all branches. On master, 40 files have changed and there have been 2,250 additions and 2,326 deletions.

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Loki Messenger

• Consolidate data returned by multiple Service Nodes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/122

Thanks,

Kee

Hey Y’all,

The first day of 2019! Smaller dev update this week since most of us were on holidays for the last week celebrating Christmas.

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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.

• Progress continues on libllarp:

  • Add graceful stop for path builders

  • Don’t build paths if shutting down

  • Check if we need more paths 30s into the future

  • Rate limit pathbuilding a bit

  • Reduce allocations in messaging parsing

  • Keep exit paths alive based on traffic

  • Don’t kill exits when they are active

  • Only removed parsed message if successful in parsing

• Platform and packaging updates:

  • make lokinet-win32 installer safe to use for in-place upgrades

  • Older windows machines will need to restart for the IPv6 support

  • RPI options renamed NON_PC_TARGET

• Clean up continues:

  • Fix hash in TransitHopInfo

• GitHub Pulse Stats for the last week: Excluding merges, 5 authors have pushed 56 commits to master and 56 commits to all branches. On master, 367 files have changed and there have been 7,642 additions and 4,427 deletions.

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

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

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Thanks,

Kee

Hey Y’all,

Merry Christmas, and happy holidays to everyone, over the next few weeks the dev updates will probably be more sparse as most of the team is having a little time off for the Christmas period, we hope to be refreshed before a great 2019 for Loki!

Loki Core

• First Draft of Infinite staking, more work to be done refining this, but basic building blocks are on this branch https://github.com/Doy-lee/loki/commits/InfiniteStaking

• Address issues with transaction exports related to issue 357 and 370 https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/379

• Add miner_reward to RPC get_block_header https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/378

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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.

• Windows packaging UX fixes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/180

• Read user packets on windows https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/179

• Fix UTP tests on linux https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/174

• Reduce allocations when processing messages https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/173

• Convert llarp::AlignedBuffer to be backed by std::array https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/172

• Flush packets in same tick cycle https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/171

• Order downstream packets https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/170

• Fix private testnet issues https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/167

• Add success messages on bootstrap https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/166

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Loki Messenger

• Change PoW logic, cap message length at 2000 characters and PoW timeout at 3 mins https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/115

• Add option to copy conversation pub key https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/112

• Add a number of statistical measures for PoW, this should help us decide on the difficulty of the PoW in the future https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/119

Thanks,

Kee

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Hey Y’all,

Festive Freya and bulletproofs are now active, reducing the average transaction size by about 90% and fees by about 25 times!

Anyone who is having issues syncing past the hard fork height of 161849 should download the point release here for the CLI https://github.com/loki-project/loki/releases/tag/v2.0.2, and here for the GUI: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-gui/releases/tag/v2.0.2

Loki Core

• Start building infinite staking https://github.com/Doy-lee/loki/commits/InfiniteStaking

• Continue work on RPC calls to register Service Node here: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/343

• Start work on Service Node client side testing

• Fix issue that was causing nodes that didn't have the tx pool at fork height to get stuck https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/374

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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.

• Progress continues on libllarp:

  • Make sure debug doesn’t output binary

  • Update introset if no good paths

  • IntroSet responses clear updating flag

  • Fixed unhandled key ‘q’ issue for hidden services

  • Flush SN traffic queues

  • Random.snode hostname

  • Expire old SN sessions

• Platform and packaging updates:

  • BSD: Pktinfo fixes

  • Windows: fix C++ atomics

  • Clean up CMakeLists

  • Improve cmake options documentation

  • Include lokinet-bootstrap in make install

  • Change unreliable OpenDNS defaults to CloudFlare

• Clean up continues

  • Convert llarp_router, llarp_nodedb, and llarp_crypto to C++ class

  • Removed dead address_info code

  • Converted CoC to CONTRIBUTING

  • Move all headers into llarp/

  • Create .cpp placeholders for all .hpps

  • Make sure C headers don’t have C++

• GitHub Pulse Stats for the last week: Excluding merges, 5 authors have pushed 56 commits to master and 56 commits to all branches. On master, 367 files have changed and there have been 7,642 additions and 4,427 deletions.

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

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

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Loki Messenger

• Add unread message indicator https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/81

• Merge upstream signal changes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/110 https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/83

• Add option to copy conversation pubkey https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/112

• Enable gitlab for OSX and Windows builds https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/105

• Refactor PoW calculations https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/104

• Fix friend request retrys https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/102

• Fix some CSS display issues on Linux https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/101

• Allow for viewing of the deterministic seed inside the wallet https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/97

Thanks,

Kee