Weekly Dev Update #76

Hey Y’all,

Last week the Loki Messenger team released the first revision of multi-device for public usage. For the rest of the week, we worked on upcoming features for improving the multi-device user experience. This includes adding QR code scanning for multi-device pairing, and also the ability to unpair devices. Both of these features will be released shortly. On the Lokinet team, it looks like we’ve tracked down and fixed the notorious 0-hop bug, which was the major hindrance to a new release. In Loki Core news, it looks like we will be forking the Loki testnet this week to start aggressively testing Blink.

Loki Core

• Necessary changes for Blink transactions to be synchronized across peer mempools

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/927

• Support for making a blink “bump” conflicting non-blink transactions from the mempool

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/933

• Classify stakes in show/export_transfers

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/932

• Explicitly Specify that times are given in UTC time

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/931/files

• Don’t define empty CPUID(..) if not x86-64, avoids unused func error

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/930

   

• Fix typos in makefile

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/929

Lokinet

If you’re on our Discord 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 was productive in tracking down and eliminating some of the remaining performance issues. We’re aware of one more outstanding bug to be fixed early this week and are continuing to test the code for an upcoming 0.6.0 release.

PR Activity:

• Reduce the “tick” latency on routers to make them check for pending messages faster (reducing latency across paths) –

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/924

• Add detection for contentious access to the logic thread [debugging tool] plus miscellaneous fixes for small issues found during testing –

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/916

• Fix runtime detection of AVX2, and fix AVX2 code –

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/919

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  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/920

   

• Fix crashes and memory leak resulting from multithreaded code –

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/912

• Correct handling and simplification of config file paths to avoid undesirable  expansion –

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/917

• Drop bad sessions sooner (should address at least some versions of the “0-hop” bug) –

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/915

• Automatically backup and move away old private keys on upgrade –

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/921

• Small code cleanup/simplification –

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/923

Loki Messenger for Desktop

• Add the ability to invite friends to Public chats

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/645

• Refactor Custom Avatars for public chats

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/638

   

• Github actions intergration

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/644

• Add QR codes for pairing secondary devices

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/643

• Sending and handling of unpairing requests

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/641

• Prevent prekeys to be deleted when re-sending pairing request

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/639

   

• Add missing margin to typing indicator bubbles

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/636

   

• Don’t select messages when context menu is shown

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/635

   

• Jump words with Ctrl and arrow keys

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/634

   

• Ensure primaryDevicePubKey is always defined in storage

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/633

   

• Fix errors showing up from invalid public chats

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/632

   

• Fix incorrect margins for public messages and friend request bubbles

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/629

   

Loki Messenger for Mobile (iOS and Android)

Loki Messenger for iOS:

• Allow for unpairing of devices for better multi device UX 

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/67

• Add QR code scanning for multi device

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/66

• Custom Profile images

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/65

Loki Messenger for Android:

• Multi device unpairing

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/pull/46

• Custom Profile images

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/pull/45

• Fix mentions issues

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/pull/44

Thanks, 

Kee