Weekly Dev Update #95

Hey Y’all, 

This week we focused on implementing onion requests and revamping push notifications in Session. Onion requests (once implemented clientside) should increase message sending reliability and improve multi-device functionality. On the Lokinet side, we worked on Mac builds; these are still presenting some problems, but we’re close to ironing out the issues. Loki Coreore and the Loki Storage Server also got some updates related to crash reports submitted by Service Node operators. 

Loki Core 

• Updated formatting for buying LNS names

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1110

• Signature checking for prepare registration commands

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1103

• Fix upgrade, memory leak, abstract sqlite3 interface

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1108

   

• Bundle updates and require linking to newer LokiMQ

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1104

• [LokiMQ] – WIP (no PR yet) on revamping the existing loki core RPC layer with persistent LokiMQ connections. Preliminary RPC testing shows loki-mq able to handle tens of thousands of simple requests per second, even when spread across thousands of incoming connections.

Wallets 

Android Wallet 

• Make updates to Android wallet build system and daemon to ensure it runs correctly

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-android-wallet/pull/29

Desktop Wallet

• Auto Update fixes to ensure prompt is shown

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/130

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 code cleaning, new documentation updates, and work towards streamlining how we create the Windows and macOS builds.  Currently there is too much human effort involved in these and we’ve started (and will continue this week) making the process easier and faster so that we can put out Windows and macOS updates faster (the linux process is already mostly automated).

PR Activity:

• Update the clang format rules to be more sane for Lokinet devs (massive PR by line count because it reformats vast amounts of the code) –

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1215

  , 

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1216

• More automatic documentation generation work –

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1199

• Client-side protocol cleanups for reducing overhead –

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1205

• Finished (pending review) config cleanup PR –

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1186

• Make gitlab CI package building (working, but still needs further testing/tweaks) –

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1209

  and 1210, 1211, 1212

• Add CPack code to generate macOS packages (for the lokinet core binaries) and build them as part of the macOS gitlab CI –

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1213

  and 1214

Session

Session iOS 

• Push notifications for iOS

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/152

  ,

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/149

• Onion requests

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/148

Session Android

• Avatar and note to self fixes

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/161

• Fix various file server proxying issues

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-android-service/pull/46

Session Push Notifications Server 

• Various updates to accommodate iOS Push notifications

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-push-notification-server/commits/PN-with-preview

Session Desktop 

• Remove unused dependencies

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1053

• Update linting

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1042

• Convert to open fonts

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1026

• Integration testing fixes

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1057

  ,

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1056

  ,

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1044

  ,

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1038

• Fixed closed group create button

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1043

• LNS Client implementation

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1041

• Disabled disappearing messages before friend requests are accepted

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1039

• Fix file server and open group tokens

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1037

• Password entry

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1036

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1035

• UI fixes

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1034

Loki Storage Server 

• Improved error handling for proxy requests

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/344

• Peer testing fixes

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/343

• Make guard node forward error messages correctly

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/342

• Add requests for LNS mappings

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/341

• [LokiMQ] – performance fix when connections get closed and lots of messages are incoming –

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-mq/commit/b9e9f10f29a8ebc89509fd18cf917cfdf183d1c8

• [LokiMQ] – support forcing using an outgoing connection to a remote service node (for storage server reachability testing); switching to this also indirectly fixes some storage-server connection reliability issues –

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-mq/commit/e3a86aaf718dac40132b022a4a3c534b08d445ef

Thanks,  

Kee