Weekly Dev Update #90

Hey Y’all,

Last week we focused on Session patches for Android and iOS clients, including improved multi-device functionality and error reporting. We also finished and tested the Lokinet design changes for 0.7.0, which means that we can begin doing limited deployment of the new and improved Lokinet across the Service Node network over the next few weeks. 

Loki Core

• Add Get Service Node RPC endpoint (Thanks to community developer Darcys22 for this)

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1050

• Allow a LNS Mapping to have multiple owners

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1048

• Move simple_string_view in common/string_view.h

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1049

   

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: We solved the last of the introset publish and handover issues, and are preparing a 0.7.0 release candidate for testing on mainnet.  If you’re interested in helping us test this on the mainnet before the next fork, contact Jason on Session (052bcac1d94688955d3ae16e19adc960d545b1b0eb1b3898f1e4e81080ced93d29) or Telegram (@jagerman42). The performance of the development branch is now extremely stable, with hours of continuous pings without a single drop and perfectly reliable voice chat over the testnet, and we’re confident that this release is mainnet-ready.

PR Activity:

• DHT publishing fixes: fix redundant publishing behaviour, fix issues related to publish confirmation messages, fix issues related to erroneously over-publishing, plus various related small fixes:

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1147

• Initial work on a

  pybind11

  -based diagnostic interface that runs and analyzes a local testnet.  This tool will, when finished, allow us to write considerably better network-wide integration tests. (Still a work in progress – available in Jeff’s

  pybind11-introspection

  branch).

• Add systemd “notify” support with watchdog and status updates:

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1131

  ,

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1143

• Remove extraneous DHT exploration:

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1146

• Fix minor issues related to change to submodules:

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1150

  ,

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1135

• Remove unneeded code related to RC gossiping:

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1148

• Recognized failed conversations immediately:

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1145

• Miscellaneous build and ci updates:

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1135

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1136

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1137

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1139

Session

Session iOS 

• Ensure pre-key bundle is valid

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/127

• Fix device unlinking issues

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/126

• Fix crashes when restoring from seed

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/125

• Fix input being disabled after prompting for permissions

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/124

   

• Sync open groups across devices

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/123

• Fix issues with multi device sessions being out of sync

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/122

Session Android

• Fix device linking UX

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/115

• Added in app version number

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/113

• Remove references to Google play and firebase

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/120

• Remove unused preferences

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/117

• Fix device linking blocking the main thread

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/116

• Fix race conditions that occur on device linking auth

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/114

• Open group syncing

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/112

Session Desktop 

• Github actions upgrades

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/938

• Revise context menu cacheing

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/935

• Fix message ordering when receiving multi device related messages

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/934

• Fix message loading related exceptions

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

• Include friends in search results

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

• Member list related fixes

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

• Remove underline for contacts title

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/918

• Make closed groups show in conversations panel

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/917

• Enable desktop notifications

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/924

• Fix caching on forgotten modals

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/923

• More Signal to Session changes

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/922

• Remove redundant search icon

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/921

• Fix event propagation for links in messages

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/920

• Removefix pill divider in react

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/919

• Fix issue with multiple duplicate messages

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/915

Loki MQ 

Loki MQ is a communications layer for various components that allows more efficient and reliable communication between service nodes and storage servers and, in the future, between wallets and nodes and other Loki components.

• Considerable improvements and tests related to using Loki MQ for non-service node direct communication over both encrypted and unencrypted channels:

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-mq/pull/2

• Integration of LokiMQ into Loki-core’s RPC and quorumnet interfaces (WIP).

Thanks,

Kee