Weekly Dev Update #31

Hey Y’all,

Most of the developers are back and kicking into gear this week, so much of the activity on the repositories will pick up pace.

Loki Core

• Infinite Staking first draft implementation is open for code review (

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/387

  )

• Add warning checks for outdated nodes attempting to prepare_registration (

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/393

  )

• Prepare_registration is now possible over RPC and now automatable (

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/394

  )

• Fix show_transfers displaying staking transactions up immediately unlocked (

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/390

  )

• Propagate internal error messages when preparing staking transactions to callee (

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/386

  )

• Refactor check_tx_inputs to eliminate dead branches (

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/385

  )

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.

• Master branch changes

• Staging branch changes

Loki Messenger

• Refactor of libloki into separate modules (

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/125

  )

• Fixed bug in message count notification due to pending friend request (

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/126

  )

• Reduce PoW difficulty for production (

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/129

  )

• Some Travis fixed for CI (

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/127

  )

• Add the ability to change messages time-to-live (

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/131

  )

• Continued setting up a private test Lokinet network, comprising 5 swarms of 2 snodes each, for testing the messenger in more realistic conditions.

• Messenger client sends and receives messages to specific swarms, open for code review (

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/132

  )

• Collaborated with the LLARP / Lokinet team to get all the necessary API and DNS calls working in NodeJS.

Thanks,

Kee