Weekly Dev Update #120

Hey Y’all, 

This week, our efforts were focused on two major endeavours: getting the final fixes in for the upcoming Loki Salty Saga hardfork, and working on a major update for Session closed groups and push notifications, which will be rolling out imminently. We also made more quality of life upgrades to the Loki electron wallet and put the finishing touches on the Lokinet GUI, specifically on Windows support. 

Loki Core 

• Rip out configurable decimal places (Thanks to community contributor

  sarawut11

  for this)

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1280

   

• Clean up block template and other bugs

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1276

• Fix JSON serialisation of block data

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1286

   

• Fix loki-blockchain-import

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1285

• Change where LMQ gets config directory from

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1284

• Change Pulse participation recording

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1283

• Cosmetic changes for hardfork 16

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1282

• Don’t build debugging tools in static builds

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1281

• Misc fixes

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1279

• Fix max uint64_t errors when contributing to a reserved spot

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1278

   

• Fix wallet trying to spend locked stakes

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1277

• epee optional kv serialization – don’t emplace

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1275

   

• Pulse: Vote validators off based on missing block signatures

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1274

   

• Fix internal RPC requests for service nodes

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1273

   

• Fix derived Monero public key assertion

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1272

• Block TX penalty from block reward

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1271

• Don’t use clock for choosing Pulse difficulty

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1269

   

Loki Wallets 

• Catch on all wallet RPC calls

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/187

• 1.4.6 bugfixes

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/193

   

• Frontend logging

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/192

• Fix confirm TX popup inconsistency when sweeping all from service node tab

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/191

   

• Add bunyan logger for logging electron events to file

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/190

• Better error handling

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/188

   

• Fix asset downloading during builds

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/185

Lokinet

You can catch Jeff, the lead developer of LLARP, live streaming as he codes at https://www.twitch.tv/uguu25519. He typically streams on Tuesday mornings, 9am – 12pm Eastern (US) time.

What went on last week with Lokinet: This week saw various small cleanups, fixes, and pre-release last-minute changes aimed at getting Lokinet ready and packaged for the upcoming hard fork. We still have a few minor items left, but overall 0.8 is shaping up to be a solid release.

Lokinet PR Activity:

• New router contact format to allow future RC data additions –

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1368

• Better handling of error conditions on startup –

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1358

• Updated Lokinet Debian/Ubuntu packages –

  https://github.com/jagerman/loki-network/tree/deb08

  ,

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1362

  ,

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1363

• Update CI builds to remove redundant jobs –

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1359

• Expose exit auth codes to RPC (for the control panel) –

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1369

• Fixes for Windows exits –

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1367

• Add a script to allow generating SNapp identity files externally –

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1370

• Miscellaneous minor code cleanups/compilation fixes –

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1355

  , 

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1360

  ,

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1364

  , 

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1365

  ,

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1366

Session

Session iOS 

• Closed group editing

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/280

• Fix SSK group updating

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/281

• Fix crash on GIF sending

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/279

• Respect user notification settings

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/278

   

Session Android

• Fixes for open group avatars

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/356

• Background message polling using WorkManager API

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/354

   

• Fix removing members from a closed group

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/353

• Fix notifications not disappearing after a conversation is read

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/355

   

• Fix open group message ordering issue

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/352

• Fix SSK group leaving issue

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/351

   

Session Desktop

• Fix typing bubble theme

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1362

• render @ mention correctly with long title on ConversationListItem

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1361

   

• Generate our own sender key if one is not found

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1358

• Optionally use V2 Onions for Snode requests

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1348

   

• Allow medium group updates from non admins

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1360

   

• Enable sender keys groups, raise closed group size to 20

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1359

• Fix outdated open group parameters

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1354

• Stop retrying after 4 retrys

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1352

• Mark node as bad if it returns the incorrect difficulty

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1353

• Disable voice messages

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1351

   

• Handle duplicate conversations

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1350

• SSK fixes

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1349

• Opacity changes on clickable avatars

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1347

   

Thanks,  

Kee