Weekly Dev Update #97

20 April 2020 —Admin

Hey Y’all,

Last week we continued our efforts to improve the stability of Loki Core and the Loki Storage Server. We found and patched some bugs, however these stability upgrades are still ongoing. Lokinet for macOS was reworked, and we are onto the final stages of navigating macOS signing and notarization. On the Session front, we released a new version of Session for iOS and Android which adds the option to receive reliable push notifications from the Apple Push Notification service (APNs) on iOS, and Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) on Android. These builds also patched a number of bugs which caused unreliability when sending messages.

Loki Core

Fix segfault occurring when exiting wallet
https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1127
(Thanks to community member
cryptonote-social
)
Cn_turtle_hash: Use light flag in portable implementation (this was causing an issue where clients would get stuck syncing)
https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1126
Reduce connection timeouts on local addresses
https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1129
Update LokiMQ version
https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1128

https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1122
Handle SN status when not staked
https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1124
Refuse to submit uptime proofs for duplicate X25519 keys
https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1121

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 rewrote the build, installer, and system run scripts for macOS Lokinet build with GUI. This gives us a functional foundation that makes churning out new builds much simpler — we can now easily produce a signed, notarized macOS binary from scratch with a single build command. We still have a couple remaining build issues to address in order to get the build working on pre-Catalina versions of macOS, but a public macOS release is close. We also have some work to do on improving performance, and will continue with the planned improvements for 0.8 in the near future.

Lokinet-Core

PR Activity:

Update Lokinet build script to be able to do an all-in-one Lokinet+GUI+signing+notarized macOS build, and remove a ton of old, now-unused installer code –
https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1225
Reduce network bandwidth usage by reducing the number of packets that get acknowledged at once –
https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1226
Remove unused Windows code –
https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1228
Add windows installer VC runtime installation support –
https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1229
Add a script to convert hex ed25519 pubkeys to their base32z encoded address –
https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1222
, and base32z back to hex –
https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1224
Fix travis CI code that got broken in recent `dev` branch changes –
https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1223

Lokinet Control Panel

PR Activity:

Redo macOS build system in cmake
https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network-control-panel/pull/38
Add macOS icons
https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network-control-panel/pull/37
Use launchd to control process
https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network-control-panel/pull/36

Session

Last week we released new iOS and Android applications which add the option to use APNS and Firebase push notifications (respectively) for a more reliable push notification experience. We also pushed a number of closed group fixes and changes which should increase sending reliability.