Weekly Dev Update #80

Hey Y’all, 

Last week and this coming week will be slower than normal since the majority of the team is taking Christmas holidays. The team that is still working is primarily fixing lokid bugs in anticipation of the upcoming the mandatory upgrade period — starting on the 26th and Loki messenger’s rebrand to make sure everything is ready for Session’s release in January.

Loki Core

• Fix static builds

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/990

  ,

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/989

• Version update

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/988

• Add long polling for Blink transactions

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/986

• Don’t print worker_index when not an obligations vote

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/987

• Sort `print sn` checkpoint votes

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/985

• Fix up vote serialization which was causing platform incompatibility

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/984

• Various small blink-related fixes/tests for 6.1.0 (WIP)

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: 

Doing some final testing for the mainnet launch binaries, which we’re calling 0.6.1, with just a few little changes and cleanups left. We’ve also returned to working on putting together a consistent GUI for Lokinet installation, and running Lokinet on desktop (Windows, Mac and Linux). We had already gotten started on this, but it was put on hold for the Lokinet 0.6 release.

PR Activity:

• Enable JSON RPC by default (

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/998

  )

• Change default netid to `lokinet` (for mainnet) from `gamma` (for testnet) –

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/979

  ,

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/980

• Fix issue with lokinet -> lokid communication with large responses (i.e. mainnet size) –

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/974

• Reenable downloading sodium as part of the build, but now opt-in –

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/981

  ,

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/989

• Switch timers to use libuv timers into of home-built ones, improving performance and stability –

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/990

• Build system fixes –

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/992

  ,

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/994

• Fix crash and test suite failures on arm (especially 32-bit arm) –

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/996

Loki Messenger for Desktop 

• Contunite on Session rebranding : Finish Left pane + conversation list and compose view

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/712

• Add client side changes necessary for Service Node proxying

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/709

• Add Session dropdown menus and modals

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/710

• Add Session toast notifications

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/702

• Remove caching of elements which was affecting using group moderator controls

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/700

Loki Messenger for Mobile (iOS and Android)

Loki Messenger for iOS:

• Reenable Signal safety numbers

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/73

• Provide Push notifications for iOS

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/72

Loki Messenger for Android:

• Add private group chats backend

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/pull/60

• re enable Signal safety numbers

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/pull/59

• Continue Session visual overhaul

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/pull/58

Loki Wallets 

We have readied iOS, Android and Desktop wallets for updates to support version 6 of Lokid, including adding Blink support to all wallets.

iOS 

• Add support for Blink

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-ios-wallet/pull/12

Android

• Blink support and a number of bug fixes

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-android-wallet/pull/23

Desktop 

• Blink support and number of bug fixes

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/109

Misc 

Loki Storage Server

• Bind ports to a default of 0.0.0.0

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/301

• Fix length validation for ED25519 keys

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/300

• Cleanup and bugfixes

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/299

• Allow more frequent requests between Service Nodes

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/298

• Allow messenger clients to proxy request to the Loki file Server

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/297

• Make fixes to Service Node proxying

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/296

Loki Public File Server 

• Submodule fixes for emoji support in public chats

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-public-server/pull/21

Loki Network Control Panel

• Working towards integrating into windows installer and having Lokinet run though the GUI

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network-control-panel/pull/2

Loki Launcher 

• Various updates working towards supporting Lokinet and the new version of Lokid

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-launcher/commits/master

Thanks,  

Kee