Weekly Dev Update #96

14 April 2020 —Admin

Hey Y’all,

Last week we dealt with a deregistration event caused by some misconfigured Service Nodes, and a Loki Storage Server bug which occurred on some platforms. On the Lokinet side, we adopted some new strategies for implementing the Lokinet GUI on Mac, and made significant progress towards a finished implementation. On Session, we finished up work on Onion Requests for iOS and began addressing a number of issues with closed groups. We’re also begun work on implementing a Sender Keys based system for closed groups, allowing us to increase closed group size.

Loki Core

Merge various upstream commits
https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1119
Fixes rvalues not taking correct default_serialize overload
https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1118
Warn Service Nodes with configuration issue and refuse to submit proofs if we detect duplicate ed/x25519 key
https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1121
Update for changes in new LokiMQ version
https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1122

Wallets

Desktop Wallet

Release new version with GUI support for registering LNS names
https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/releases/tag/v1.4.1

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 pushed through some issues with Lokinet GUI behavior on macOS and spent a bunch of time learning how to navigate the vagaries of low-level system tools on Apple hardware. Much cursing was involved. We believe, however, that we’ve figured out the magic set of incantations to keep the mischievous gods — such as Loki — that live inside every Mac happy, and we hope to have a working, mostly automatically-built installer with functional GUI interface finished later this week

PR Activity:

Fix `dev` branch compilation on Mac –
https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1219
Add Python script to convert ed25519 hex pubkeys to .snode addresses –
https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1222
Fixes to travis-ci configuration to make it pass on the dev branch after recent large merges –
https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1223
Massive automatic formatting rules change to make source code formatting more in line with what lokinet devs are productive working with –
https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1215
Apple release build fixes –
https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1218
Watchdog timer for the GUI on macos –
https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network-control-panel/pull/33
Fix systray icon on macos –
https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network-control-panel/pull/35
(WIP, no PR yet) – rewrite macos installer and GUI code to let Apple manage the core lokinet via launchd rather than making the GUI own the process (this is closer to how lokinet works on Linux with systemd).
(WIP, no PR yet) – build installer infrastructure to automatically produce bundled installers for lokinet core and lokinet GUI.