Weekly Dev Update #124

Hey Y’all,

This week the core team continued working on updating the Android and iOS wallets to make them compatible with Loki 8.x.x. The Session team integrated the onion requests v2 framework — which cuts down on the size of messages and increases the maximum attachment size. On the other side of the pond, the Lokinet team implemented some more aggressive router profiling and path rebuilding changes which should increase client stability.

Loki Core

• Replace boost filesystem, cleanup epee, further wallet API cleanups

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

• Fix key image import issue

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

• Fix macOS refreshing issue

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

• Update Loki core mobile libraries for new wallet releases

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

Loki Android Wallet

• Work on getting the Android wallet to work with Loki 8.x.x hardfork

  https://github.com/jagerman/loki-android-wallet/commits/loki8 

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: We’ve been concentrating on the final 0.8.1 release build: fixes for macOS, more Windows fixes, more robust path building, as well as various last minute fixes to small issues.

Lokinet PR Activity:

• Fix windows config path being “.lokinet” instead of “lokinet”

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1418

• Fix clients trying to open inbound links (which causes a conflict if trying to run both a Lokinet client and a router)

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1419

• Improve windows installer Lokinet and GUI bundle with CPack

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1420

  ,

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1424

• Enable profiling to let clients avoid poor connectivity routers by default

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1421

• Be more aggressive when trying to build multiple paths at once

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1423

• Crank the version of clang we test in the CI builds

  to 11

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1422

• Various small improvements to command-line “lokinetmon” tool

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1426

Session

Session iOS

• Giphy improvements

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/301

• Change key pair generation method

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/300 

• Full list of commits can be found here

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/commits/dev 

Session Android

• Push notifications fixes

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/369 

• Full list of commits can be found here

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/commits/dev 

Session Desktop

• Fix open group file upload issues

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1384 

• Remove proxyFetching in favor of onion requests

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1383 

• Full list of commits can be found here

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/commits/react-refactor 

Session Push notification server

• Changes to increase reliability of push notifications

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-push-notification-server 

Session Open group server

• v2 Onion request support

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-open-group-server/pull/50

• Add existing uncommitted code

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-open-group-server/pull/51 

• Add a dummy get v2/lsrpc handler

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-open-group-server/pull/52 

Thanks,  

Kee