Weekly Dev Update #78

Hey Y’all, 

Last week we started testing Blink on testnet. Apart from a few small bugs, Blink transactions are now sending successfully on testnet. On the Loki Messenger side, nearly all Loki messenger team members have started work on the upcoming Loki Messenger rebranding. This rebranding includes a full cross-platform visual redesign of the application to further separate it from the Signal UI. Last week we also released custom profile images for Loki Messenger, along with a number of bug fixes for multi-device syncing. Lokinet also went through additional stress testing, with the hopes of triggering any undiscovered bugs.

Loki Core

• Make Service Node list handle failure to query blocks, remove v0 loading code

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/956

• Service Node List reset, should reset all transient fields

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/953

• Store uptime proof information (keys, uptime, version) directly in LMDB

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/952

   

• https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/963

  Fix off-by-one error in remote-only quorumnet

• Fix minor errors

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/962

  ,

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/960

  ,

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/959

  ,

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/951

  ,

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/945

• Remove broken timing optimizations

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/958

• Add Lokinet pinging information to lokid

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/957

• Fix TX burning construction

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/955

• Improvements to print_sn command

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/950

• Revamp travis CI to produce builds much faster

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/947

• Query state archive while processing state changes

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/944

• Fix reward winner sorting and error messages

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/943

• Fork testnet to enable Blink

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/941

   

• Fix timeout issues in Blink

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/964

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: The past week of testing has been mostly uneventful, which is great. We now have Lokinet deployed (and required) on the Loki testnet. We have been using Lokinet on a daily basis for Lokinet developer voice chat, as well as various performance tests.  We’re quite confident now that the code is working solidly, and it is nearly ready to go live in the upcoming hard fork.

PR Activity:

• Logic thread fixes big PR merged

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/935

• Various windows build fixes

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/914

• More windows fixes (WIP)

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/941

• Include data in the initial message, improvement latency for small packets

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/936

• Bump version to 0.6.0

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/938

  and change default netid to “gamma”

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/940

• Key backup manager cleanup and fixes

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/937

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/942

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/945

• Close unneeded connections more proactively

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/947

• Add support for creating bootstrap files that specify multiple bootstrap nodes

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/949/files

• Fix ipv4 traffic to .snode address

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/951

• Replace cpp backports library with header-only filesystem library implementation (ghc-filesystem)

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/952

• Fix recently added router deadlock and add a watchdog timer to make lokinet kill itself (to be restarted) if it deadlocks for more than 30 seconds (WIP)

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/953

Loki Messenger for Desktop

• Build out icon framework, relevant for rebranding

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/685

• Rebuild registration pages

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/683

• Public server moderator Quality of life improvements

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/679

• Tell user more clearly that their clock is out of sync

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/677

Loki Messenger for Mobile (iOS and Android)

Loki Messenger for iOS:

• Use Signal implementation of data reset

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/70

• UI redesign work

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/68

• Updates to profile picture storage on Loki file server

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/69

Loki Messenger for Android:

• Fix issues with restoration from seed

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/pull/55

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android-service/pull/18

• Add cache for messages to cut message loading times in half

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/pull/54

• Clickable profile images for Android

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/pull/51

Misc.

Lokinet Onion Explorer

• Update to comply with latest dev branch

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-onion-blockchain-explorer/pull/15

Loki Storage Server

• Key fetching changes necessary for 6.0.0 hardfork

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/293

Loki Public File Server

• Changes to add moderator endpoint

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-public-server/pull/18

Thanks, 

Kee