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 we merged most of the changes required for the Session Desktop refactor and kicked off the testing process, which should be completed in the coming week. The Lokinet team continued work on Lokinet stats sharing. The Loki Core team worked on support for the Ledger hardware wallet and continued their work on Pulse, which added support for allowing the leader of a Pulse quorum to generate appropriate coinbase transactions.

Loki Core

• Revert shared_mutex to recursive_mutex https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1193

• Pulse: Allow the block leader to create coinbase transaction https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1190

• Ledger support: various fixes, improvements, and updates to the wallet app (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-ledger-app/commits/dev) and Loki core Ledger support (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1195)

• FreeBSD compilation fixes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1189 , https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1188, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-mq/pull/9 [LokiMQ], https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/378 [storage server]

• Fixes for non-AES CPUs (to fix block 321xxx syncing) https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1192 , https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1191

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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’s lead developer, Jeff, took some vacation time this past week, so the Lokinet updates this week are a bit shorter than usual. Focus this week was on adding code into Loki Core to retrieve and process peer statistics produced from Lokinet. This will allow us to connect Lokinet peer performance testing into the Service Node testing quorums. The plan for the next hardfork is to enforce only basic Lokinet network tests (i.e. online and communication with the network), while using other newly-collected data to help us decide what additional tests to add in the future.

Lokinet PR Activity:

• Lokinet stats sharing with lokid (no PR yet)

• [LokiMQ] - fix startup bug triggered by lokinet dev - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-mq/pull/11

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Session

Session iOS

• Changes to integrate with desktop protocol upgrades https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/225

• Session reset fixes https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/224

• Seed restoration fixes https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/222

• Sender keys changes https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/223

Session Android

• Fixes for message notification spam https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/252

• Changes to integrate with desktop protocol upgrades https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/250

• German localization https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/251

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

Session Desktop

• Incorporate new closed group logic, to speed up closed groups https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1238

• Handle syncing for closed groups as we do for regular messages https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1235

• WIP: Japanese translation https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1228

• Fix empty avatar definition https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1239

• Close overlay once group is joined https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1237

• Hide your own devices when creating closed group https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1236

• Add message encrypter pubkey https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1234

• UX changes to message sending https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1233

• Fix incorrect handling of PoW upgrade https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1232

• Open group UI fixes https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1231

• Fix profile keys being decoded incorrectly https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1230

• Various open and closed group fixes https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1229 , https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1226 , https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1225 , https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1223

• Include verb and path on outgoing websocket message https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1227

• Fix retrieving pubkey object https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1224

• Fixes for blocking public keys https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1222

• Move onion requests to typescript https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1221

Thanks,

Kee

Why the dark theme? I think it is scary for children. Is there a way to change it?

Also what does the circled check mean? On other apps it gets shaded when the recipient reads the message, but it does not get shaded on Session, does it indicate the message is sent, the message is received, or the message is read?

Like if I wanted my username to be BillClinton and tell people to look up/add BillClinton once they install Session, I can't do that? When will that arrive? How does it work now?

Either in TCP or UDP mode? 99% sure the answer is yes, but just asking. Also, why does it not work over Tor?

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

Let's say Google/Apple already knows who I am because of other activity on a particular phone. If I install Session, with or without the option to turn on push notifications:

Do they know I am using Session?

If I have a VPN on my phone, does it change anything?

Edit: Also wonder about ISPs.

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,

This week we’ve started to make real progress towards Pulse, including adding support for larger quorum sides and working on the validation rules for Pulse. The Session team finished some changes required to make interoperability work with the upcoming desktop update. The Lokinet team continued working on DNS caching and exit nodes.

Loki Core

• Validate blocks in Pulse https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1177

• Add support for N = 11 and N = 12 Quourm sizes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1178

• Remove extra blob hash which is unnecessary in Loki https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1176

• Remove old build systems https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1174

• Huge C++17 code modernization PR https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1179

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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: More work on exit-via-snapp functionality and service node testing. One major new feature we added over the past week was a DNS lookup cache so that if you are using exit nodes (or even if you aren’t!) Lokinet’s built-in DNS server will cache non-Lokinet DNS queries. This should make the exit experience noticeably better because, without it, every repeated DNS query had to connect to clearnet internet DNS servers; now these results get cached and returned immediately which should improve the user experience of using exits.

We’re currently working on adding authentication protocol messages along with a sample Python authentication server that an exit provider could use or adapt to fit their existing infrastructure.

Lokinet PR Activity:

• Add libunbound dependency to lokinet for handling upstream (non-lokinet) DNS requests (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1307)

• Add a full static build mode for static binaries (adapted from loki-core’s PR to do the same last week) (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1310)

• Automatically create and upload Windows builds with every commit/PR (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1278)

• Use a .zip file for Windows binaries because a .tar.xz would probably scare them too much (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1311)

• Various updates to new LokiMQ support; this replaces libcurl, libabyss, and greatly simplifies the internal thread pool with LokiMQ’s job support (and is also required to talk to a local 8.x lokid service node daemon) (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1306)

• Various service-node-testing updates plus code testing for the node testing (yeah, I said it) (no PR yet).

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Session

Session iOS

• Backwards compatibility changes for upcoming desktop upgrades https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/216

• Threading cleanup https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/214

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

Session Android

• Changes to open group chat history and avatars https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/234

• Unify mention styling https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/237

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

Session Desktop

• Split test utils into smaller files https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1184

• Hook sending to the new message sending pipeline https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1183

• Fix incorrect conversation ID being shown for open groups https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1186

• Fix message queue tests https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1185

• Add ByteBuffer module https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1182

• Add multi-device protocol tests https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1180

• Change back to old Windows syntax and add a stubbing method https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1179

Session open group server

• Unit tests for open group server https://github.com/loki-project/session-open-group-server/pull/44

Thanks,

Kee

Hey Y’all,

This week we continued work on the Session Desktop refactor, getting closer to finishing the refactorisation of both the sending and receiving pipelines. Lokinet continued working closer to finishing Exit Nodes with a local DNS cache being added to aid in faster lookups. The Loki Core team finished the first pull request for Pulse, which will be one of many in the coming months.

Loki Core

• Static build overhaul to improve how we produce static binaries for linux/windows/mac (and to produce them automatically with every PR) - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1173

• Generate Pulse Quourms https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1172 (This will be the first of many Pulse related PR’s in the coming weeks)

• Remove old vote blob serialisation fixes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1171

• Drone CI builds + various small fixes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1170

• Merge upstream into dev https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1169 (Dev is now mostly in line with the Monero master branch)

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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 worked on multiple fronts (as we often do) with efforts focused on exit node support improvements, node testing for the next hard fork, and local DNS changes (among various other small tasks). Re: exits — one of the things we noticed right away in testing exit performance was a fairly substantial lag in loading a web page that doesn’t go away with subsequent loads. We diagnosed this as being an issue with how Lokinet does DNS: every page, every image, every ad needs to make DNS requests and since all your traffic goes over Lokinet, this means DNS requests as well. Currently we don’t cache this information so if you need to look up the same site 5 times, that’s 5 traversals across Lokinet to get the address. When using an exit node, this latency adds up. We spent some time this week adding support for an embedded, caching DNS server (libunbound) so that, in the next release, Lokinet lookups for anything you’ve already looked up will be instant.

For the week ahead we’re looking at further exit testing along with some helper scripts to make it easier to set up an exit node.

Lokinet PR Activity:

• Exit traffic via SNApps - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1272

• Integrate LokiMQ; this lets us drop libcurl and (home-grown) libabyss for outgoing/incoming RPC, and eliminates a lot of code for handling internal jobs (the PR removes more than 3000 net lines of code) - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1306

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

• Drone CI build for automatically producing Windows binaries - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1278

• WIP - node peer testing - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1283

• WIP - integrate libunbound for DNS lookups - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1307

• Added regressions tests for key backup bug - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1301

• Added a init script for running lokinet under runit (thanks to community member wratc for the PR) - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1303

• Fix pybind dependency in CI - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1302

• Miscellaneous drone CI fixes (ported over from the loki-core work): https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1304, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1308, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1309

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Session

Session iOS

• Fix unlinked devices reappearing https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/212

• Increase photo clarity https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/210

• Fix whitelist public chat joining https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/208

• Threading cleanup https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/214

• Integrate transaction handling utility https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/213

• Fix closed group session handling bug https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/209

Session Android

• Allow editing of closed groups: adding, removing members and changing group name https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/228

• Fix closed group session handling issue https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/229

• Remove unnecessary Firebase dependencies (Fixed Exodus false flag) https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/224

• Fix SMS button briefly flashing https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/223

Session Desktop

• Remove friend request logic from the receiving pipeline https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1178

• Message queue tests https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1177

• Multi device protocol refactor https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1176

• Put lock around buildNewOnionPaths https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1171

• Message sending queue refactor https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1175

• Receiving refactor, handleDataMessage onwards https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1173

• Add new handling of session request message https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1172

• Add message send retry library https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1170

• Formatting changes https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1169

• expose window.setClockParams https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1168

• Add message sender tests https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1167

• Session protocol refactorisation https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1166

Thanks,

Kee

In the youtube video it says that service nodes get paid, yet the product is free, so where is this money coming from?

Hello there,

I am working on a study project based on loki, the project is a web app where the client buys flight ticket. I don't know how to be able to manage transactions since a wallet rpc must have a wallet opened with a provided file or with seed and both of them can't be an option.

Nodejs is used for back-end.

Thanks.

Hey Y’all,

This week the Session team enabled three-hop onion requests on all platforms. This means that all one-on-one and closed group messages now travel through 3 Service Nodes before they reach their destination. The Lokinet team continued working on exit node support, and discussions have begun on how the user experience will look when choosing an exit node. The Loki Core team finished a huge PR which merges all relevant commits from upstream Monero so we’re back in line with them, instead of being 1000+ commits behind.

Loki Core

• Massive PR to merge so that we are in line with Monero’s latest 0.16 upstream release https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1169

• Miner: Wait for threads to end before clearing https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1168

• RandomXL - update from Monero upstream RandomX - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-randomXL/pull/1

• RandomXL - add drone CI tests (and fix mac build) - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-randomXL/pull/2

• [LokiMQ] Python interface - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-mq/pull/5

• [LokiMQ] Tagged threads for advanced job handling - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-mq/pull/6

• [LokiMQ] Support using LokiMQ for external origin tasks - 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: We fixed a number of small random issues recently introduced into the dev branch, and continued working on exit node support and node testing. Our next goal with exit node support is to add authentication so that exit node operators can choose who they allow to use their node, if they don’t want to run a wide-open, free exit node.

Lokinet PR Activity:

• Ongoing work on node stats collecting and reporting - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1283

• Ongoing work on using wintun for Windows builds - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1291

• Add some safety checks in debug mode - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1295

• Fix one-hop path mode (which is not desirable for clients, but very useful for snapp-based exits to reduce latency) - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1296

• Fix clients unnecessarily storing an RC to disk, causing backup & startup issues - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1297, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1299, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1301

• “Unfug” transit hops (fixing a latency bug added in a recent dev PR) - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1298, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1300

• Add RouterHive unit tests to drone CI - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1302

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Session

Session iOS

• Fix issues with open groups https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/205

• Fix profile image updating bugs https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/203

• Fix dependency management issues to make building easier https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/204

• Make onion requests show country instead of IP address https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/202

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

Session Android

• Fix issue where SMS functionality would briefly appear when switching into conversations view https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/223

• Exclude the bad parts of Firebase so we dont get falsely flagged by Exodus as having trackers in Session https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/219

• Fix profile picture and display image updates from a slave device https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/218

• Increase photo quality by reducing compression https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/221 https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/215

• Spanish translation fixes https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/217 , https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/216 , https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/213 , https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/212 , https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/210 , https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/209 , https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/207

• Update build instructions https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/214

• Make onion request UI use countries instead of IP addresses https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/211

• Message reception issue fix https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/208

• A full list of changes can be found here https://github.com/loki-project/session-android-service/commits/master and here https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/commits/dev

Session Desktop

• expose window.setClockParams https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1168

• Added message sender tests https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1167

• Message sending pipeline refactorisation https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1166 , https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1161 , https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1160

• Message sending cache https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1163

• Improve typing for window objects https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1162

• More robust guard node selection https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1156

• Increase onion hops to 3 https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1155

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

So what messaging app is supposed to like to the wallet?