Weekly Dev Update #39

Hey Y’all, Loki Core is going through some big changes this week… Infinite Staking! We decided to postpone the hard fork date due to some bugs in the 3.0.0 testnet release. However, we are back on track for a Mandatory Upgrade Period of 10 days which will begin on the 16th of March. This means our new hard fork date will be the 26th of March.Loki CoreThe core team has begun streaming more frequently, you can catch Doy-lee streaming here: https://www.twitch.tv/doy_lee/

• Improve wording for infinite staking unlock command

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/476

• Fix RPC call for prepare registration

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/474

• Fix Print locked states missing from help menu

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/471/files

• Fix off by one bug that was causing windows clients to crash

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/466

• Rotate mainnet governance key and change HF time (No longer relevant)

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/462/files

LokinetIf you’re lucky and join our Discord you might catch Jeff or Ryan, the developers of LLARP, live streaming as they code: https://www.twitch.tv/uguu25519, https://www.twitch.tv/neuroscr

• Master branch changes

• Staging branch changes (gets posted to master when stable)

• Convert to use abseil synchronisation primitives (PR371)

• Update kqueue / improve profiling expiration (PR380)

• MacOS compile fix / profiling fix (PR382)

• Huge multipart overhaul: Shadow, Session, Path building, DNS, IWP/UTP, kqueue (PR384)

• Reduce pings (PR385)

• Fix gitlab CI for non-windows builds (PR387)

• Path building, timeout tuning, UTP, send/handle discard packets, Endpoint path building changes, protocol breaking changes (PR388)

• Fix path changes, endpoint changes (PR389)

• Fix path building bug where paths with two of the same nodes were chosen and causing path timeout (PR391)

• Changes can be found at:

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/commits/staging

• PR suggested changes (coming to staging soon)

Loki MessengerThis week we started using Loki Messenger and Lokinet internally in the office. We discovered lots of small UX/UI bugs, but we’re getting closer and closer to something usable by the general public.

• Add way to delete contacts, and add a right click menu

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/252

• Extend functionality of right click menu

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/253

• Remove Github issue template

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/249

• Add requestExpired state to Friend Request state machine

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/248

• Fix multiple Friend Request timers instantiated at same time

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/247

Messenger Swarms

• Loki storage server continues to be updated to reflect the more current design for data migration between nodes in a swarm

  https://github.com/msgmaxim/loki-storage-server/commits/data-migration

• Created a Testing framework for swarms so we can test under load

  https://github.com/msgmaxim/swarm_migration_testing/commits/master

Loki GUI

• Partially complete reskinning of the electron GUI for Loki is here:

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-wallet/pull/1

  We are on track to release this along with the hard fork.

Thanks, Kee