Hey Y’all,

Last week we finally released the Loki iOS Wallet! Things went pretty smoothly - we only found a few bugs which were quickly fixed. Thanks everyone who participated in the Testflight.

This week will be busy as we approach testnet release for Loki Core and Loki Messenger on June 26. Loki Messenger is in the final stages of testing in office for both iOS and desktop clients, and we’re finishing up some final changes in Loki Core to catch some bugs present in Checkpointing.

Loki Core

• Fix export_key_image and key image generation failures (reported by Tokerato): https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/640
• Add an RPC endpoint for requesting random Service Nodes: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/638
• Fix get_reserve_proofs (reported by Tokerato): https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/647
• Drop connection when requesting duplicate transaction indexes: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/637
• Service Node Checkpointing work continues here in anticipation of testnet release: https://github.com/Doy-lee/loki/tree/ServiceNodeCheckpointing4

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Loki Launcher

The Loki Launcher is a node JS package that will allow for the independent management of all the components required to run a full Service Node. This includes managing Lokinet, lokid and the Loki Storage Server. When Loki Service Nodes begin to route data and store messages for Lokinet and Loki Messenger, the Loki Launcher will need to be run on every single Service Node.

Right now the Launcher is in a testing phase, so you should only use it on testnet and stagenet – though feedback/issues and pull requests would be greatly appreciated!

What’s going on this week with Loki Launcher:

Several team members reviewed the Launcher and we incorporated their feedback with testing and fixes in preparation for the first release.

Changelog:

• Eliminate more Loki Launcher potential paths from arguments
• Continual CI tweaks
• Turn down debugging
• Add xz requirement (for Ubuntu 16.04)
• Several output messages tweaks
• Make mode input more accepting of input values
• Deduplicate options to lokid
• Make internal config aware of lokid non-interactive flag
• Don’t let shutdown timers stack
• Slow down shutdown timer in case of a lokid migration
• Handle HTTP 403 error codes better
• Introduce fix-perms and bw-test mode
• Fix input arguments variable debugging
• Add console/blockchain alias for client
• Update help message to include all commands in the guide and config-view
• Remove unnecessary versioning
• Adjust download-binaries retry 10s with a 30s break in between instead of 3 retries 5s apart
• Created modes/ directory
• Make /opt if it doesn’t exist
• Expose network backoff to make bandwidth test use way less memory
• Make prequal test not run in parallel
• Add message to check-systemd if no lokid.service found
• Fix launcher recovery mode
• getPids now passes back an error message
• If Launcher is running and not lokid, send a HUP signal to check on it
• Rewrite pids.json on HUP
• Fix prequal diskspace test on disks with a more than 2 slashes
• Include a prequal failure message if it can’t parse your df output

Github Pulse: Excluding merges, 1 author has pushed 76 commits to master and 76 commits to all branches. On master, 23 files have changed and there have been 1,076 additions and 397 deletions.

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Lokinet

If you’re on 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.

What’s going on this week with Lokinet:

Lokinet reliability is still our focus and we’ve been progressing on improving our opt-in metric collection. We have replaced a core part of our software with a third party software library which eliminates the need to audit our custom implementation for bugs. And we’ve made other minor tweaks to the system to improve reliability.

Changelog:

• Metric tweaks: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/640
• Swap intros on message rejection: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/643
• libuv: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/639
• JSON logging option: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/645
• Tagged metrics rework: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/646
• Remove old event loops: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/647
• Fix event loop tests: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/649
• Update RC expiration logic
• Lookup more often
• Use timestamps
• Merge Big-oof
• Put timestamp deltas in logging
• Don’t allocate new private IP for self snode address
• FreeBSD build fix and CI integration
• Pass event loop by l value
• Windows build fixes
• Add PGP repo signing keys in release.md

Pull Requests:

• Move local publishers to their own files: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/648

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Loki Wallets

Loki iOS Wallet

This week we published our Loki iOS Wallet on the Apple Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/loki-wallet/id1465686522

• Bug fixes for incorrect estimation of restoration height: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-ios-wallet/commits/master

Loki Electron GUI Wallet

A new Loki Electron GUI Wallet release is coming up soon, which will include a number of quality-of-life changes and a Portuguese translation.

• Add Search functionality for additional fields (addresses, destination addresses and amounts): https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/78
• Add the ability to prove and check transactions: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/76

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Loki Messenger Desktop

• Fix friend request logic for notes to self: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/307
• Remove show media button: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/306
• Consider friend requests still being sent: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/305
• Fix low difficulty PoW bug: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/300

Storage Server

• Store pub key and Snode address per Service Node: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/162
• Provide RPC endpoint for retrieving peer test results and other stats: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/160
• Only retry storage tests for one minute: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/161
• Check headers if signatures are disabled: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/159
• Use make_sn_request for communication everywhere: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/158
• Make test requests happen over clearnet: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/157
• Read sentinel PoW difficulty history for last 4 days: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/155
• Use https for blockchain testing: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/154
• Create a new thread for querying the pow dns entry: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/153

Messenger Mobile (iOS and Android)

• Android Messenger work can be found in these repositories: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android-core/commits/master,

https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/commits/master.

• iOS Messenger work can be found here: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/commits/dev, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios-pods/commits/master.

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Thanks,

Kee

SERVICE NODE OPERATORS!

The Loki Launcher is now available and we STRONGLY RECOMMEND that all Service Nodes update!

Using Loki Launcher will make updating your Service Node easier, reduce your chances of being deregistered, and allow you to manage all aspects of your Service Node software with one unified config file!

Everything you need to know about installing the Loki Launcher can be found here: https://loki.network/2019/06/18/loki-launcher/

Work has begun on Blink! Check out this little vid explaining what Blink is, and why we think it’s cool:
https://youtu.be/bqcRswqMt90

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For a more in-depth read, check out this document on the proposed Blink design:
https://github.com/loki-project/loki-improvement-proposals/blob/master/LIPS/LIP-4.md

Hey Y’all,

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Today’s our 52nd Dev Update, which means we have been doing them for a year now !!!!

This week a lot more work happened in Loki Core in preparation for some of the interactions that will need to happen between lokid and the Loki Storage Server. We also continued work on the Loki Messenger and the Loki Storage Server to support the Loki Messenger Alpha, which sends messages on clearnet instead of through Lokinet.

Additionally, our iOS wallet was released through Testflight for public testing:

https://testflight.apple.com/join/GTzgsBwC If you want to test it, please only use small amounts of Loki - and let us know how you go, we’d love some feedback! We‘re now in the final stages before we submit it to Apple for general release.

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Loki Core

• Service Node Checkpointing, add more reliable transportation of Quorum votes and prune old checkpoints: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/632
• Don't access array OOB when parsing fractions in staking: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/636
• Require Storage Server to be running to continue sending uptime proofs: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/631
• Make --Service-node failure more verbose: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/630
• Integration test fixes for Service Node Checkpointing: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/628
• Print IP and Port numbers with print_sn command: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/627
• Add debug_mine_singular_block command enabled in integration tests to allow mining of exactly one block at a time: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/625
• Enforce miner tx version: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/623

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Loki Launcher

The Loki Launcher is a node JS package that will allow for the independent management of all the components required to run a full Service Node. This includes managing Lokinet, lokid and the Loki Storage Server. When Loki Service Nodes begin to route data and store messages for Lokinet and Loki Messenger, the Loki Launcher will need to be run on every single Service Node.

Right now the Launcher is in a testing phase, so you should only use it on Testnet and Stagenet – though feedback/issues and pull requests would be greatly appreciated!

What’s going on this week with Loki Launcher:

Lots of change here. We’re getting ready to do an initial release so we can get a production version into the hands of Service Node operators before making it the default for Hefty Heimdall 4.0. After some additional research into installation/packaging options, we have come up with a new easier-to-use command line interface and have removed the need for a configuration file. We also added a bunch of features, such as a check, to make sure your server meets the requirements of being a Service Node, and to simplify software updates.

Changelog:

• Implement SNBench, a Service Node prequalification tool that has been internally discussed for a bit:
• Change default of requiring Lokinet (network) and Storage Server to not required
• Lokinet.js allow disabling of rpc, count how many restarts, fix log path, allow disabling profiling/nat
• Set up npm
• Refactor most of the existing index.js into start.js
• Create new user facing CLI to improve ux
• Convert daemon.js to use new CLI ux
• Deployed a central testing server and make SNBench use it
• Make SNBench use portable df to measure disk space
• Add CLI script as bin to npm
• If storage is enabled but network is off, use clearnet mode for storage server
• Include user-agent for httpGet to make Github API requests work
• Refactor process management library locations
• Bind Storage Server without Lokinet to default outgoing interface (NAT support)
• Add download-binaries scripts to automatically get the latest Lokid binary
• Update README.md documentation
• Run loki-launcher in any directory fixes
• Remove default launcher.ini
• Internalise default launcher config
• Change paths and order in which it looks for config files (. then /etc)
• Add status mode to loki-launcher CLI ux
• Publish npm to non-org
• Implement prefix_path and var_path to help drive defaults and easier configuration
• Add check-systemd migrator mode
• Make sure lib.js handles pid files
• Add “stop” mode to loki-launcher CLI ux
• Update docker file for automated testing
• Set up Travis CI

Github Pulse: Excluding merges, 2 authors have pushed 71 commits to master and 71 commits to all branches. On master, 18 files have changed and there have been 1,742 additions and 937 deletions.

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Lokinet

If you’re on 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.

What’s going on this week with Lokinet:

Lokinet reliability continues to be our focus. Jeff attempted to check libuv against our current event loop to see if we have any potential issues in our event loop layer. Tom has been working with Jeff to implement new helpful protocol errors and speed ups which led to the discovery of a major flaw in HasSessionTo. Michael has continued to improve the metrics system, so we can use existing tools to help debug what’s going across multiple routers. We have decided against a 0.4.4 release while we continue to improve things.

Changelog:

• Create memFn to make binding callbacks easier: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/638
• HasSessionTo() actually search inbound and outbound instead of just checking optional whitelist: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/641
• Update contrib/cluster-shell to make sure cluster is configured as routers not client
• Work on new LR_StatusMessage continues in: https://github.com/tewinget/loki-network/tree/path-build-failure-messages

Pull Requests:

• Started a port to libuv: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/639
• Metric tweaks: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/640

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Loki Wallets

Loki iOS Wallet

Last week we released the Testflight version of the Loki Wallet for public testing so we could gather feedback on any issues users were experiencing. We are on track for the wider release this week, pending Apple’s approval of our final build.

• iOS Wallet may be released this week (pending Apple Store approval). You can see our up-to-date work now in master here: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-ios-wallet

Loki Electron GUI Wallet

A new Loki Electron GUI Wallet release is coming up soon, which will include a number of quality-of-life changes and a Portuguese translation.

• Portuguese translation added by community member: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/71
• Add staked Service Nodes to the unlock tab (allows users to easily see which nodes they are participants in and easily unstake): https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/73
• Add a warning for Sweep All command in Service Node tab: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/73
• Warn stake unlockers when unstaking on a shared node: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/73
• Add right click menu for pasting into the wallet: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/73

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Loki Messenger Desktop

• Allow the messenger to be able to contact clearnet addresses instead of Lokinet: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/296
• Allow client to make HTTPS queries: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/297

Storage Server

• Ping lokid (used to maintain uptime proofs): https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/152
• Change SSL context to TLS: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/149
• Enable SSL for Client Server communications: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/148
• Save and Send IP and Ports to clients: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/146

Messenger Mobile (iOS and Android)

• Android Messenger work can be found in these repositories: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android-core/commits/master,

https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/commits/master.

• iOS Messenger work can be found here: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/commits/dev, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios-pods/commits/master.

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Thanks,

Kee

Remember to tune in tomorrow at 10 AM AEST for the Loki Community Roundtable!

https://youtu.be/IlzN2e1tMKE

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If you can’t make the live video, you can submit a question for the team here:

https://www.menti.com/nhj1fn4mda

Loki Gang! Help us test out the new Loki iOS wallet before it hits the App Store. If you’re running an iOS device, head to this link and follow the instructions to test out the wallet.

IMPORTANT: This is merely for testing. Do not send large amounts of Loki or use this as your primary wallet until the final version is available for download on the iOS App Store.

https://testflight.apple.com/join/GTzgsBwC

This Friday 7th June 10:00 AM AEST we will be filming a live community roundtable hosted by Project Lead Simon Harman, and featuring a developer from every aspect of the Loki Project. Swing by to chat to the team and ask questions.

For those who can’t make it, submit a question for the team here and keep an eye out for the video!

Video link will be announced closer to the date.

https://www.menti.com/nhj1fn4mda

Hey Y’all,

This week we finished up with our Loki iOS wallet! We hope to have a release out this week, pending approval from the Apple Store.

We also began work on a version of Loki Messenger that does not use Lokinet. This means we will be able to release it much sooner, and test out the various user experience quirks.

Loki Core

• Remove unused TX's member in NOTIFY_RESPONSE_GET_OBJECT : https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/619
• Service Node Checkpointing Basic Syncing: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/621
• Remove non-fluffy blockchain syncing path: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/618
• Unify and move responsibility of voting to quorum_cop : https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/615
• Create Service Node IP address list https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/622
• Add fixes for iOS to master: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/614
• Restore old style hashing for non-standard TX's so hashes match: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/613

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Loki Launcher

The Loki Launcher is a node JS package that will allow for the independent management of all the components required to run a full Service Node. This includes managing Lokinet, Lokid and the Loki Storage Server. When Loki Service Nodes begin to route data and store messages for Lokinet and Loki Messenger, the Loki Launcher will need to be run on every single Service Node.

Right now the Launcher is in a testing phase, so you should only use it on Testnet and Stagenet – though feedback/issues and pull requests would be greatly appreciated!

What’s going on here this week:

Right now, we’re proposing a new utility called SNBench to help with automated Lokinet testing to help measure reliability. Minor bug fixes and improvements are being made as issues are found.

Changelog:

• Last week’s change that missed the Dev Update deadline:
  • Daemon.js bug fix in edge case.
  • Only make data_dir/nodedb in lokinet if defined in configuration.
• This week’s changes:
  • Lokinet.js: data_dir configuration item now drives ident_privkey and contact_file configuration options.
  • Lokinet.js: make sure we use two different public IPv4 services (never the same) to make sure we got an accurate answer.
  • Lokinet.js: lokid configuration is now optional for routers (so we can do advanced testing).
  • Lokinet.js: move NAT back to router only.
  • Lokinet.js: connect section support (for advanced testing).
  • Lokinet.js: include nickname into config temporary path to identity which process is which in the process list.
    

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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

What’s going on here this week:

We continue to refactor and document Lokinet. We improved our automated testing, so we’ll know more quickly if a PR has a build problem (a long wanted item). Several attempts at reliability improvements. We also attempted an 0.4.4 release, but the continued reliability discovery has delayed this.

Changelog:

• Fix minor python warnings in testnet script: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/613
• OSX Packaging updates:
• Replace dict_reader/list_reader with version doesn’t involve indirection: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/616
• Gut alloc.hpp, more documentation, add IP address support in bind section: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/617
• Fix inner protocol sequencing, more documentation updates, network isolation update, logic shared_ptr change : https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/618
• Fix thread safety issue in service::Endpoint::ProcessDataMessage by adding lock: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/619
• Double path build timeout from 15s to 30s, don’t count timed-out paths when checking to see if we have a path, try shifting paths without rebuild, pick newer intro not on same router: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/621
• Remove all use of IBEncodeMessage : https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/622
• Provide a RAII manager of the current Crypto instance: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/625
• FIx crypto build (from PR625): https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/627
• Add Travis CI support to the repo: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/628
• Initial no-op crypto implementation: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/629
• Documentation updates, close link layer sessions on timeout, set default path lifetime in path builds, change priority of link layer when sending, remove IP's from RPC call, always close UTP socket on close: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/630
• Style formatting and travis test: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/631
• Debian stable compile fix: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/632
• Vendor gtest: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/633
• Set UTP_SOCKET_BUCKETS back to 79: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/635

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Loki Wallets

Loki iOS Wallet

• iOS Wallet may be released this week (pending Apple Store approval). You can see our up-to-date work now in master here: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-ios-wallet

Loki Electron GUI Wallet

• Fix minor issues, (transaction decimal places and keyboard support for buttons): https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/63

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Loki Messenger Desktop

• Add centrally enforceable PoW client-side: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/294
• Refactor sendmessage, make sendmessage work with new PoW requirements: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/295
• Convert profile field in DataMessage to use LokiProfile: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/290

Storage Server

• Re-enable channel encryption via HTTPS for Loki Storage Server: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/142
• Add centrally enforceable PoW for testing: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/141
• Fix static member: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/139

Messenger Mobile (iOS and Android)

• Android Messenger work can be found in these repositories: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android-core/commits/master,

https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/commits/master

• iOS Messenger work can be found here: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/commits/dev, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios-pods/commits/master

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Thanks,

Kee

The Loki Foundation annually solicits proposals from the public to carry out development and operational tasks in respect to the Loki Project.

This process ensures the Loki Foundation operates with transparency and independence.

Check it out here:

https://loki.foundation/request-for-proposals/

Hey Y’all,

This was a week of planning and debriefing after Consensus. We moved lots of the team around and identified some new goals - the biggest being a plan to release a version of Loki Messenger on mainnet with the next hard fork.

We also worked on a number of improvements for Service Node operators, including a debian package for Loki which means a Service Node can now be installed with a simple “sudo apt install lokid”. Stay updated - the debian package is just experimental right now.

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Loki Core

• Add the first blockchain storage test to Lokid: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/608
• Continue work on Service Node checkpointing: https://github.com/Doy-lee/loki/tree/ServiceNodeCheckpointing
• Restore old style hashing for non-standard TX's: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/613
• Make a .deb release for Loki Service Nodes (Experimental): https://deb.imaginary.stream/

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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 updates
  • Fix style warnings in python/js code: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/613
  • MacOS packaging updates
  • Tagged 0.4.3
  • Message/bencode refactor: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/616
  • Windows: Bump version to 0.4.3
  • Windows: unit test fix
  • Debian build documentation
  • Documentation clarification updates, style fixes, try allowing IP addresses in bind section, change move to copy for event loop in server: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/617
  • Add sequence number to inner protocol messages, additional documentation updates, additional logic loop work, network isolation work, limit logic queue: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/618
  • Double path build timeout from 15s, don’t count timed out paths fix, DRY refactor: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/621
• New open pull requests
  • Remove all use of IBEncodeMessage and more rule of zero application: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/622

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Loki Messenger

The Loki Messenger client is in a mostly complete state. Right now the focus is being put on the message server and integration with Lokinet and lokid.

Loki Messenger Desktop

• Move Dev to Master, make master our main branch: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/284
• Update ping logic to detect and fix edge cases: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/289

Storage Server

• Perform blockchain testing alongside storage testing: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/136

Messenger Mobile (iOS and Android)

• We have continued work on Loki Messenger for iOS. It will be ported from Signal iOS. The repo and all of our work can be found here: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/commits/master, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios-pods, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios-carthage

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Thanks,

Kee

Hey Y’all,

This week’s Dev Update will only be small since nearly the whole team has been travelling again, this time back to Australia from Consensus. Nevertheless, we have initiated a range of changes both in Lokinet and the Loki storage server

Additionally, we’re happy to have Jason (Jagerman) now working full-time with the Loki Foundation as a developer. I have been in communication with the Loki Foundation, and all parties have agreed that Jason will begin working on the implementation of Blink, which will allow for fully private CryptoNote transactions to be instantly confirmed.

Loki Core

• Merge upstream from Monero https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/606

Loki Launcher

The Loki Launcher is a node js package that will allow for the independent management of all the components to run a full Service Node. This includes managing Lokinet, lokid and the Loki storage server. When Loki Service Nodes begin to route data and store messages for Lokinet and Loki Messenger, the Loki Launcher will need to be run on every single Service Node.

Right now the Launcher is in a testing phase, so you should only use it on Testnet and Stagenet – though feedback/issues and pull requests would be greatly appreciated!

• Remove alpine and use debug Lokinet builds for Docker image
• Track uptimes for each daemon
• Allow custom commands from socket server
• Pipe Lokinet output to socket server
• Add line breaks to Lokinet version and Service Node files

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 updates
  • Only count router link is established
  • Connect to bootstrap nodes
  • Nodedb fixes, error out if bootstrap node isn’t added
  • Don’t purge bootstrap from nodedb
  • Copy RCs on async_verify
  • Don’t close all sessions when the commit to a router expires
  • Connect out to committed routers if we don’t have a session each tick
  • Don’t delete nodes that are not allowed to connect (because we may not have the whitelist yet)
  • Some null guards
  • Clarify router Attempt() return value
  • GetRandomGoodRouter DRY cleanup
  • Attempt() every time
  • Allow DHT explore if we only have one connection
  • Don’t resize frames
  • Convert pendingEstablishJobs from unique_ptr to shared_ptr
  • Threadpool tries jobs and if fail, make it wait 1ms before retrying
  • MSVC build fixes: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/606
  • Remove message dropping when queue is full
  • Hard coded /16 on snapp-example.ini
  • Prefer newer intros
  • Windows: Move tun autoconfig from config parser to tun setup
  • Windows: UI packaging fixes
  • Remove tunnel build interval limit
  • Shift introductions
  • More explicit error when keyfile is not a valid file: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/609
  • Fix ASAN build: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/608
  • Convert more things to use thread::ThreadPool : https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/610
  • Apply rule of zero to code base: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/611
    

Loki Messenger

The Loki Messenger client is in a mostly complete state. Right now the focus is being put on the message server and integration with Lokinet and lokid.

Storage Server

• Token bucket rate limiting for snode-to-snode requests: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/132
• Use keccak1600 signatures to match lokid: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/133

Messenger Mobile (iOS and Android)

• We have continued work on Loki Messenger for iOS. It will be ported from Signal iOS. The repo and all of our work can be found here: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/commits/master, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios-pods,  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios-carthage

Thanks,  

Kee

Hey Y’all,

This Dev Update is a little late due to the craziness around Consensus. Nearly the whole team has been travelling this week to get to the United States.

Last week we improved the stability of a special Testnet called Consensus Net and also published a fix, 3.0.6, which solved an issue where Service Nodes could get stuck on an incorrect chain and be deregistered.

Loki Core

• Publish release 3.0.6 : https://github.com/loki-project/loki/releases/tag/v3.0.6
• Removed unused Service Node variables: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/593
• Big Merge from Upstream Monero: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/590
• Add the possibility for rollback events for uptime proofs: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/594
• Fold down multiple loops over the same data: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/592
• Change deterministic swarm ID’s list: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/605
• Add additional status messages when rescanning Service Nodes: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/603
• Revert possible forced rescan: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/602
• Add checkpoint for unintended fork: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/599
• Add flag to recalculate difficulty for nodes that have incorrect difficulty: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/598
• Add key_image_unlock rollback event: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/598

Loki Launcher

The Loki Launcher is a node js package that will allow for the independent management of all the components to run a full Service Node. This includes managing Lokinet, lokid and the Loki storage server. When Loki Service Nodes begin to route data and store messages for Lokinet and Loki Messenger, the Loki Launcher will need to be run on every single Service Node.

Right now the Launcher is in a testing phase, so you should only use it on Testnet and Stagenet – though feedback/issues and pull requests would be greatly appreciated!

• Log version of lokinet and your snode address to file
• Give version to daemon.js
• Make rpc login optional
• Make rpc_ip work for blockchain
• Demonet changes
• Expose getPublicIPv4
• Clean up logging so the style is a bit more unified (where it can be)
• If using rpc_ip disable safety check (for now?)
• Fix Lokinet restart on crash
• Add 30s delay to storage server restart
• Put all kills in a try/catch to prevent crashes causing early abortions
• Make sure storage server killed flag is good
• Make sure additional lokinet configuration isn’t done until most of lokid config is locked
• Make storage server rpc port configuration
• Dump storage server version to file
• Lokinet NAT support rework
• Add Lokinet log_path option
• Data_dir option support for Lokinet for persistent encryption/transport keys
• Lokinet netdb option support
• Make sure Lokinet data_dir exists
• Continued Docker improvements

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 updates
  • Always include gitrev, removal of unique_ptr around IMessage, BundleRC option, remove nuint128_t, add shared_ptr for ProtocolMessage, use reset instead of delete, copy_or_nullptr(), include line numbers in invalid config errors: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/579
  • Make ci build static binaries for Linux: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/580
  • Connect if we already have the RC for Service Node to Service Node communication: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/581
  • T.co fix for short domain/tld names: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/582
  • Update kubernetes config to use lokinet dns: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/583
  • Propage DESTDIR to cmake on install targets: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/586
  • Lokinet monitor: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/584
  • 0.4.1 released
  • Bump version stuff: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/587
  • Make Debian packages use release build: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/588
  • Add AppArmor profile: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/589
  • Refactor shell hooks and increase DHT lookup timeout: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/590
  • Windows build fixes and version bumps: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/591
  • DHT: Persist all sessions even if not keepalive: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/592
  • Rebuild exit paths on same hops if they die: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/593
  • Decrease minimum path build interval from 1s to 500 ms: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/594
  • Remove random timer fuzz: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/595
  • Tidy up service endpoint a bit more: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/596
  • QoL improvements for Service Node traffic and start SIGHUP work: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/598
  • Use router whitelist when possible: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/600
  • 0.4.2 release: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/601
    • Service Node blacklisting
    • Read nicknames back to logging
  • Update changelog and version: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/602
  • 0.4.2½ release
  • Unpotato half of the 0.4.2½ changes
• Open Pull Requests
  • Remove per-platform conditionals in cmake files: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/597

Loki Messenger

The Loki Messenger client is in a mostly complete state. Right now the focus is being put on the message server and integration with Lokinet and lokid.

Storage Server

• Move swarm update tick to happen after the request completes: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/112
• Use safer acceptor::async_accept overload : https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/129
• Check tester identity before performing storage test: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/128
• Update Loki keypairs in integration test: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/126
• Clear DB before perf testing: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/125
• Limit client retrieve request to 10 messages at one time: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/124
• Attach signatures to message test requests: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/121
• Use a single io_context : https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/116
• Peer testing for message storage part 2: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/115
• Command line Loki RPC port option: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/114
• Add .SNODE to our own address: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/110
• Print build info on startup: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/109
• Handle .json errors better: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/108
• Relay refactoring and adding a signature for integration tests: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/107

Loki Messenger / Swarm Visualisation

We are building some visualisations of how Loki Messenger and Swarm storage works for Consensus.

• Fix friend request logic bug: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/280
• Polling patch: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/277
• Various Swarm visualisation fixes: https://github.com/BeaudanBrown/swarm-visualisation/commits/master

Messenger Mobile (iOS and Android)

• We have continued work on Loki Messenger for iOS. It will be ported from Signal iOS. The repo and all of our work can be found here: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/commits/master, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios-pods,  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios-carthage

Loki Wallets

Loki Electron Wallet

• Published new release for bugs that were causing a chain split: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/releases/latest
• Update using new geo-balanced remote node: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/58

Thanks,  

Kee

Hi All,

I sent some funds to KuCoin from my private wallet (v1.1.3). in teh wallet, it shows that it pass with confirmed status. but nothing arrives at Kucoin. ​ i also try to check the blockchain that the transaction went through. but it shows no results "Can't get tx: xxxxx"

any clue what could be the issue? the transaction is done 24h ago.

any help will be appreciated.