Weekly Dev Update #117

Hey Y’all, 

This week was a big development week for Session — we released UI fixes and light mode! On the Lokinet side, we worked on LNS support and continued testing exit nodes. The Loki Core team continued working on alternate block support for Pulse. 

Loki Core 

• Compilation fixes

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1248

• Integrate libsodium-provided privkey

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1246

   

• Restore public access to RPC for some commands

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1245

   

• RPC doc updates for last reward/state SN variables

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1244

   

• Enable lokid.sock by default and add umask

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1242

   

• LNS support for registering .loki Lokinet domains (no PR yet)

Loki Wallets

Loki Electron Wallet 

• Warn user they are not on the latest version

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/161

• Add context menu components

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/160

• Import GUI style fixes

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/159

• Add popup to confirm a transaction

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/157

• Fix sending error

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/156

   

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: Lokinet development saw us merge working macOS support for exit mode, exit configuration via the GUI, SRV record support for SNapps, one big performance improvement, and initial work on support .loki LNS lookups. This week we plan to finish off LNS support (to come with the upcoming Loki 8.x Pulse update) and continue testing and polishing exit mode support.

Lokinet PR Activity:

• SRV record publishing for clients/snapps

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1331

  ,

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1332

• Improved exit mode system route configuration to add first-hop routes dynamically

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1330

• Made exit mode work on macOS

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1333

• Added systemd-resolved and NetworkManager sample DNS configuration files for Linux (thanks to cathugger for the contribution)

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1334

  ,

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1335

• Reduce CPU bottlenecks by avoiding some contentious mutexes

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1336

• LokiMQ updates for the GUI to be able to talk to Lokinet’s new LMQ-based RPC interface

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network-control-panel/pull/41

• Initial support for automatic lokinet-gui CI builds

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network-control-panel/pull/42

Session

Session iOS 

• Add push notifications for groups that use shared sender keys

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/262

• Cleanup UI

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/261

• Improve error handling

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/260

  ,

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/259

   

• Fix open group date handling

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/258

  ,

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/256

   

• Shared sender keys fixes

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/257

Session Android

• UI cleanup

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/327

  ,

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/323

   

• External file access fix

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/324

• Push notifications for shared sender keys groups

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/322

• New avatar placeholder

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/320

• Upgrade Kotlin and Gradle

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/326

• Improved error handling

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/321

• Fix Session reset bug

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/319

• Show attachments with emojis in convo previews

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/318

   

• Fix SVG attachments

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/317

• Fix duplicated open group messages

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/316

• Fix camera icon

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/314

• Light theme tweaks

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/313

• Disable multi dex

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/312

   

• Fix missing messages in Session open groups

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/311

• Fix open group date handling

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/310

• Shared sender keys fixes

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/309

   

Session Desktop

• Order messages in Session open group by time received at Server

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1321

• Lightmode fixes

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1326

  ,

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1323

   

• Upgrade light mode introduction

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1324

   

• Fix emoji panel scaling

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1322

• French translation update

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1320

Thanks,  

Kee