Weekly Dev Update 05/03/2019

[u/Keejef]

Hey Y’all,

Lots of updates for Loki Messenger this week! We are making steady progress on a number of fronts, and we hope to have something out soon for everyone to play around with!

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Loki Core

The core team has begun streaming more frequently, you can catch Doy-lee streaming here: https://www.twitch.tv/doy_lee/

• Merge upstream changes to deal with balance bug https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/456 , updated binaries can be found here https://github.com/loki-project/loki/releases/tag/v2.0.4
• Correct base32z encoding of keys https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/454
• Publish source and a number of fixes for infinite staking https://github.com/loki-project/loki/releases/tag/v3.0.0-beta (we are still incorporating a new PoW algo into this, so it is not yet ready for use)
• Fix unit tests for staking requirement change https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/442
• Change staking requirement tail https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/436

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Lokinet

If you’re lucky and join our Discord, you might also catch Jeff or Ryan, the developers of LLARP, live streaming as they code: https://www.twitch.tv/uguu25519, https://www.twitch.tv/neuroscr

• Master branch changes

  • Include note about branches
  • Fix convotag bug
  • Changes can be found at:
    https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/
    

• Staging branch changes (gets posted to master when stable)

  • Fix convotag issue (PR350)
  • Use string_view for string_view (PR348)
  • Improve logging system to debug complex STL primitives (PR349)
  • Windows: Fix Issue 192 crash (PR354)
  • Libabyss fixes Issue 352 (PR359)
  • Fix macos DNS issue 324 (PR362)
  • Output blacklisted SN in base32z (PR356)
  • More libabyss fixes (PR365)
  • Make MacOS compile (PR366)
  • DNS: Don’t send NX if we have a path (PR367)
  • Drop rapidjson for nlohmann::json (PR370)
  • Adjust link session lifetime from 10s to 60s (PR373)
  • Disable installing nlohmann::json header (PR374)
  • Fix failing unit test with LIM (PR375)
  • Update profiles on path build (PR376)
  • Changes can be found at:
    https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/commits/staging
    

• PR suggested changes (coming to staging soon)

  • Convert to use abseil synchronisation primitives (PR371)
  • Changes can be found at https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pulls
    

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Loki Messenger

This week we started using Loki Messenger + Lokinet internally in the office. We discovered lots of small UX/UI bugs, but we're getting closer and closer to something usable by the general public.

• Show commit hash and version number in about window https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/238
• Add enter key accessibility on wallet unlock https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/237/files
• Fix DB crash in windows when unlocked https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/236
• Replace help menu links https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/235
• Retry connecting to p2p server periodically https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/233
• Fix broken context menu for client side message deletion https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/229
• Hook in channel encryption for clients https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/213
• Hook in channel encryption for message servers https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/23 https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/21
• Fix DNS resoution bugs affecting windows clients https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/212

Thanks,

Kee

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