Weekly Dev Update #118

Hey Y’all, 

This week the Session team worked on some fixes to light mode and some additional updates to the styling of the app to give it a bit of a facelift. These were the first steps in a larger ongoing visual overhaul, and we’ll have more to share on that front soon. The Loki Core team continued to work through internal Pulse issues with a public testnet release creeping closer by the day. For the first time in a few months we also made some significant quality of life updates to the Electron GUI wallet, including displaying a list of stakeable nodes inside the GUI wallet. The Lokinet team capped things off by working towards final exit-enabled GUI builds. 

Loki Core 

• Don’t overwrite mainnet lns.db for test suite/fakechain

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1249

   

• Pulse Validation fixes

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1235

   

• Rebooted devnet with more testing and deliberate network failures to test pulse resilience

• Ongoing LNS work for .loki addresses and less CPU-heavy Session addresses (no PR yet)

Loki Wallets

Loki Electron Wallet 

• Add better error handling for transfer RPC call

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/178

• Fix incorrect operator label

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/177

• Update URL for lokid bins

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/175

• Add additional events

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/173

• Context menu fixes

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/172

• Change service node tab display functionality

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/170

  ,

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/167

   

• Update dependencies

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/169

   

• Integrate fetching new stakeable nodes from Lokiblocks

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/162

   

• Misc. fixes

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/171

  ,

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/166

  ,

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/165

  ,

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/164

  ,

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/163

   

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 (draft) LNS support for .loki address lookups in Lokinet clients (both in Lokinet and in loki-core, where the registrations are actually made). We also did some more testing and various cleanups of the code base. We think exit support is in decent shape now — it’s working well, but we continue to use it as our daily connection to shake loose more potential issues before the upcoming hard fork release.

Lokinet PR Activity:

• Draft LNS support for looking up lokinet domains

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1342

   

• Made make uninstall work to remove installed files 

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1340

   

• Removed old, unused gitlab CI scripts 

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1341

   

• Revitalise the Android build system for future Android work

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1339

   

• Update README with new requirements

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1343

   

• Make clients reachable over lokinet by default (as is currently the case in the stable release)

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1344

   

• Automated windows installer builds (work-in-progress)

Session

Session iOS 

• Shared sender key protocol changes

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/267

   

• Polish, Indonesian Vitenamese and Japanese translations

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/266

• Replace Jazzicons

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/265

  ,

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/264

   

Session Android

• Styling fixes for message details

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/336

   

• File storage API refactor

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/335

• Fix group chats not being marked as read

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/334

• Polish, Indonesian, Vietnamese & Japanese Translations

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/333

   

• Replace Jazzicons

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/332

   

• Fix Lockscreen crash

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/329

   

Session Desktop

• Fix sender keys desktop implementation

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1337

   

• Remove Jazzicons

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1336

• Fix attachment downloads

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1338

   

• Fix mark as read setting

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1335

• Ensure blocked border is appropriately shown

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1334

• Fix custom avatars

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1333

   

• Fix message detail view bugs

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1332

• Fix overloaded media panel

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1331

Thanks,  

Kee