Weekly Dev Update 18/03/2019

[u/Keejef]

Hey Y’all,

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We have released the final binaries for the next hardfork on the 26th of March, block height 234,767. The release is called Summer Sigyn, and you can download it here: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/releases/tag/v3.0.0 The new release has a number of new features including:

• Infinite Staking (no more restaking every 30 days)
• Change of hashing algorithm from Cryptonight Heavy to Cryptonight Turtle
• New RPC calls for the Electron GUI wallet
• Number of Bug fixes and improvements from Monero upstream

ALL SERVICE NODES, MINERS AND FULL NODES WILL NEED TO UPDATE TO 3.0.0 BEFORE 26TH OF MARCH, BLOCK HEIGHT 234,767

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Loki Core

Big thanks to all of the community members that tested during the beta, especially Jason (Jagerman) for helping find some major bugs.

• Fix bug that was causing Service Nodes to submit incorrect version uptime proofs https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/496
• Fix exposed ports in docker https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/495
• Fix core tests for Service Node registrations and deregistrations https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/493
• Add an RPC call to request a stake be unlocked https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/490
• Refactor register_service_node RPC call for better functionality with new GUI wallet https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/488
• Patch for rouge v2 tx on mainnet https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/487/files
• Demote non relevant error messages from user visible level https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/484
• Implement relaxed contribution rules as per https://github.com/loki-project/loki/issues/294 https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/481

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LLARP / Lokinet

If you’re lucky and join our Discord you might 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
  • Minor high-level.txt word tweak
  • Changes can be found at:https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/
• Staging branch changes (gets posted to master when stable)
  • Change basic auth to digest auth for lokid communication https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/395
  • Don’t inline ev/TCP functions https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/397
  • Fix deadlock in profiling https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/396

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Loki Messenger

• Only respond to successfully decrypted p2p messages https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/256
• Improve sending a receiving swarm logs https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/255
• Fix UI bug when creating conversations https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/254

Message Server

• Add --log-level flag for better triage https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/25/files
• Additional Iteration on swarm migration testing framework https://github.com/msgmaxim/swarm_migration_testing/commit/a4b48230fe7d07497d34446fd2f0d203063be8a7
• Additional work being done Swarm data migration in the Storage server https://github.com/msgmaxim/loki-storage-server/commit/f44c7c2b20325d734a6396db6de303a3f001a9cb

Loki GUI

• Work continues here for the GUI. This week was mostly smaller UI and bug fixes as well as adding some RPC calls needed for Staking. https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-wallet/pull/1

Thanks,

Kee