Weekly Dev Update #20

Hey Y’all,

Lots of hiring this week! We have brought on two new members who will be joining us in the coming weeks – I will introduce them once they complete their first pull requests.

Daemon

• Fix Monero bug using receive time to subtract m_txpool_weight which causes overflow (

  https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/4688

  )

• Updated repository to include latest fixes from Monero into Loki (

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/291

  )

• Fix the builds on development branches breaking after upstream changes (

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/296, 

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/297, 

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/300)

Service Nodes

• Swarms first draft is complete (

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/299/files

  )

LLARP / LokinetWe are looking for experienced sysadmins to run nodes that connect to our toynet. Please join Discord room called #Lokinet and we can add you to the node operator role. You can host a hidden service or browse existing hidden services.

• Progress continues on libllarp

• libAbyss

• DNS library

• GitHub Pulse Stats for the last week: Excluding merges, 3 authors have pushed 65 commits to master and 74 commits to all branches. On master, 254 files have changed and there have been 24,917 additions and1,841 deletions.

• NOTE: Loki Builder compile helper is now deprecated and integrated with main repo.

Loki Messenger

• Add TTL to Friend request messages 

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/19

• Add generation of private key with mnemonic seed 

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

• Add prompts for friend request 

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/20

Thanks,  Kee