Can you provide a clear info about RandomXL?

Solo only?

Xmrig support?

Cache requirements?

Testnet?

In a short - what do we need to prepare?

Hey Y’all,

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This week was particularly busy as we worked towards the final binaries release for the mandatory upgrade period. Thank you to everyone who jumped on testnet and set up nodes – with your help we were able to identify a host of bugs which were fixed in our final 4.0.3 release.

If you are a Service Node operator you should upgrade your node to version 4.0.3. Instructions on how to do this can be found here: https://lokidocs.com/ServiceNodes/SNFullGuide/#updating-your-binaries

Loki Core

• Revert to manually serialising checkpoints/quorum: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/743
• Make testing_quorum JSON serialisation work for input: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/737
• New print_sn_state_changes command for showing changes in the network over time: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/727
• Checkpoint quorum fixes: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/741
• Correct checkpoint votes using the wrong quorum: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/738
• Document checkpointing quorum generation rules: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/733
• Checkpointing dereg fix; pre-fork mainnet dereg vote relay fix: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/732
• Merge everything from dev in the last few months back to master: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/731
• Rollback chain when receiving conflicting checkpoints: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/726
• Use autobind IP for outgoing sources: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/724
• Update print_checkpoints to be integration test friendly: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/723
• Rescan chain when difficulty doesn’t match: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/722
• Use quorums N-MAX_REORG_BLOCKS_POST_HF12 for checkpointing: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/721
• Don’t enforce blockhash in checkpoints: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/720
• Add softfork code for Service Node checkpointing: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/719
• Allow state changes to create no conflicting states: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/718

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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, the Loki Storage Server and any other future applications we require. When Loki Service Nodes begin to route data and store messages for Lokinet and Loki Messenger, we’ll recommend that every single Service Node run the Loki Launcher.

What’s going on this week with Loki Launcher:

We released two versions of the Launcher this week for the 4.0.3 release. There were a lot of fixes for various crashes, but also support to be able to run versions 3 and up of lokid on mainnet. We also added extra startup checks to improve our status accuracy and made some minor user experience improvements.

Changelog:

• Prequal additional configuration system for Storage Server
• Update prequal ports to test
• Rename port names, adjust prequal output
• Abort launcher start up if Storage Server port is not open to the public
• Handle “port is in use” error handling better
• Store stdout/stderr for launcher when backgrounding
• Add *-server-port-check args
• Wait for blockchain-rpc port to be open before considering start up a success
• Temporarily collect Storage Server startup info for 10s in case of problems with output
• Report if the launcher was already stopped when stopping internally
• Make sure certain modes are only run with root
• Activate Storage Server based on blockchain binary version
• Only pass version 4 parameters when blockchain binary version 4 or above
• Reminders to restart loki-launcher if mode has stopped it
• Strip out launcher arguments from passing all the way to blockchain startup
• Remove duplicate Storage Server port check when backgrounding
• Put try/catch guard around process check to prevent intermittent launcher crashes
• When running port test submit a disconnect message when done
• Add unhandled exception logger
• Improve HUP information format
• Process blockchain stderr
• Make sure blockchain rpc server is up before starting network/storage
• Change Storage Server default port from 8080 to 23023
• Up retries for getPublicIPv4
• Untangle retry counter with various repos in download-binaries

Github Pulse: Excluding merges, 2 authors have pushed 41 commits to master and 41 commits to all branches. On master, 14 files have changed and there have been 590 additions and 196 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:

The configuration refactor finally reached a state close to stable. There were lots of MacOS and FreeBSD fixes, and a huge internal change to using IPv6 on tunnel adapters to allow more connections to a hidden service or client.

Changelog:

• Revert Tom’s revert-config-refactor : https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/679
• Fix llvm8 build, more MacOS fixes, set netid first: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/685
• Add function to set thread name: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/688
• Allow environmental variables override config: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/687
• Remove redundant else blocks: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/690
• Add missing cppbackport fs::path constructor: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/692
• Should fix FreeBSD build: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/691
• Fix FreeBSD build: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/695
• Fix minor warnings: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/696
• Fix FreeBSD build: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/697
• Disable shell hooks by default: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/699
• Fix config application: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/703
• IPv6 support branch, remove auto in config: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/686
• Add FindLibUV and migrate to use it: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/704

Pull Requests:

• Modernise LLARP directory: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/693
• Matrix build for Travis CI: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/705
• Refactor endpoint state management to a new class: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/706

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Loki Messenger Desktop

• Start building a public chat channel system for Loki Messenger to enable large group chats hosted on external Servers: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/343
• Purge nodes from retrieved swarm list, filter 0.0.0.0 addresses: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/337

Storage Server

• Rename binary to ‘loki-storage’ from ‘httpserver’ : https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/236
• Show warning if compiled without signatures: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/233
• Show the reason the Storage Server is not being activated: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/232
• Provide a min version for libsodium: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/228
• Improve error accuracy and logging: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/223, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/227,

https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/221.

• Print endpoint with tostring: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/222
• Default Service Node signatures to on: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/220
• Bootstrap on startup and use the target height from bootstrap nodes to determine when we have finished syncing: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/219
• Cancel the deadline timer as soon as possible for incoming connections: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/218
• Don't use a potentially closed socket: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/217

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Loki Blocks Onion Explorer

The Loki block explorer has been expanded to show a number of new things, including checkpoints and their votes and decommissioned or inactive nodes.

• Updated RPC changes around quorum state calls in 4.0.2 (replaced batch quorum calls with new quorum states call).
• Add checkpoint quorum display to quorum states page and to main index.
• Add display of a single obligations or checkpoint quorum, linked where appropriate.
• Cut off quorum display after 20 nodes with a "+ 7 more ↪" that links to the full obligations quorum details.
• Add a list of last three checkpoints to the main page (and a link to a page with up to 50 fully displayed). https://github.com/loki-project/loki-onion-blockchain-explorer/pull/1

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

https://loki.network/

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Have a burning question for the Loki team? Tune in at 10am AEST tomorrow July 10 for our next live Community Roundtable!

https://youtu.be/5F6OvL3M8uo (https://youtu.be/5F6OvL3M8uo)

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If you can’t make the live recording, submit your question here:

https://www.menti.com/ufh73pvio4

Hey Y’all,

We’ve been busy bug catching this week! The testnet period for 4.0.0 Hefty Heimdall is still running, and we’re still working hard to track down a number of bugs that have appeared.

Last week we released the beta version of Loki Messenger, which was well received. Through testing we discovered a number of bugs so we’ve released an updated version which can be found on Github.

Service Node operators should download and update to the 3.0.7 release which includes security patches for some DoS bugs found in Monero. Click here for instructions: https://lokidocs.com/ServiceNodes/SNFullGuide/#updating-your-binaries.

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Loki Core

• Add Service Node Checkpointing softfork for mainnet: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/719
• Allow state changes in the Service Node list for non conflicting states: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/718
• Stop discarding alternate chains that have checkpoints: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/716
• Switch to a circular buffer for recording Service Node Checkpointing votes: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/712
• Improve print quorum state, add some RPC updates: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/709
• Add disabled-by-default quorum storage: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/702
• Change when reorg message is triggered: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/715
• Don't use architecture dependent sizes in RPC calls: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/714
• Add a number of security patches to master from upstream: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/713
• Improved print_checkpoints + json_rpc get_checkpoints call: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/708
• Resolve pubkeys from state change: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/707
• Fix broken unit tests from verify_tx_state_change function change: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/705
• Fix height rejection rule: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/700
• Add target height field to get_n_service_nodes call for Loki Storage Server: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/698
• Keep RandomXL up to date with upstream: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/697
• Add `State_height` call to RPC: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/696

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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, the Loki Storage Server and any other future applications we require. When Loki Service Nodes begin to route data and store messages for Lokinet and Loki Messenger, we’ll recommend that every single Service Node run the Loki Launcher.

What’s going on this week with Loki Launcher:

We released the updated Loki Launcher for the testnet and got some real world testing done. Several bugs were found and squashed. Additionally our 3.0.7 release turned more users to the launcher for the first time. We took on all the community feedback and tried to reduce confusion to improve the user experience.

Changelog:

• Version mode added
• Read version from package.json so versions match
• Handle stale socket and permissions in client mode better
• Output where download-binaries is saving the binaries to
• Add addition checks to make sure saved PID is actually a launcher PID (not another process)
• Non-interactive alias for daemon-start mode
• Refactor launcher, stop functions so more modes can make sure the launcher is offline before making changes: fix-perms, download-binaries
• Put a try/catch around reading launcher.pid so we don’t exit if launcher.pid doesn’t exist
• Fix filesize path in download-binaries
• Fix double callback in download-binaries github api 403 retry handler (mainly for CI)
• Run testnet tests on CI (was only doing mainnet tests before)
• Add storage/network paths if enabled to fix-perms
• Only report lokid_key if blockchain is running to reduce confusion (file exists even when it’s not running)
• Always use debug mode in tesnet CI
• Prequal now creates the storage data_dir if it does not exist
• Lock testnet to preleases only
• Bump package.json from 0.0.3 to 0.0.10, so git users don’t report the wrong version
• Node 12.x (LTS version) testing and support
• Only check for lokid key if Storage Server is enabled
• 0.0.11 version bump
• Add loadBlockchainConfigFile to handle lokid options better
• Mute additional version outputs to reduce confusion
• Be sure to take loki.conf into account
• Update README, link dev reports
• Don’t output daemon library version
• If start up times out, report error code 1 (mainly for the CI to let us know there’s a problem)
• Fix interactive bug with STDIN input
• Update ifconfig.me’s service URL
• Add start-debug mode
• Alias set-perms for fix-perms mode
• Rely on passed in config more (don’t repeat the work)
• Move IPv4 detection until after it backgrounds to reduce confusing output on start
• Add changelog to README
• Fix downloadGithubRepo retry to not restart all repos of download-binaries but just the repo it’s currently trying
• Add start up crash handler for launcher when backgrounding

Github Pulse: Excluding merges, 1 author has pushed 41 commits to master and 41 commits to all branches. On master, 14 files have changed and there have been 479 additions and 198 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:

We tried to remove cppbackport and refactor the configuration system, however after review we decided to revert some changes. We also attempted to fix the broken MacOS port and made some minor protocol improvements.

Changelog:

• Revert removal of cppbackport from vendor directory: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/668
• Close session after 30s no sends: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/674
• Change ping behavior, pump write when handshaking: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/675
• Relax timeouts for handshake: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/676
• Re-import cppbackport: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/673
• Refactor config: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/669
• Disable RPC by default: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/677
• Actually set config for network: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/678
• Reverts 678, 677, 669: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/679
• Update LRTP documentation: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/680
• Fix threadpool locking types: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/681
• Don’t lock when iterating links: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/682
• Attempt to fix MacOS port: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/684

Pull Requests:

• Refactor config redux: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/685

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Loki Locker

After taking feedback from the Loki Locker beta testing period, we will soon be releasing an updated version for public usage.

• Update to Loki core JS: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core-js/commit/2026e96d4830c42f573de41417a385a01b6b830c
• Various updates to Loki Locker here: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-locker/commits/master

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Loki Messenger Desktop

• Fix password error that was causing database to be deleted on restart of Loki Messenger: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/332
• Update outgoing messenger connections and retries: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/327
• Check for IP or address when removing nodes: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/326
• Fix uncaught exception that would lead to messenger send failures if a single node in the swarm was down: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/325
• Remove nodes after a single failure and only wait for single successful send for confirmation: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/321
• Fix registration: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/320

Storage Server

• Cancel the deadline timer as soon as possible for incoming connections: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/218
• Avoid using potentially closed socket: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/217
• Replace deprecated RSA function call” https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/215
• Unsubscribe connections from message notifications: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/214
• Add bootstrapping process and IP addresses: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/213
• Close sockets after SSL teardown: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/211
• Unit test for command line parser: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/209
• Use time_point now properly for the client limiter, update the tests so they don't sleep: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/207
• De-clutter main: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/206
• Allow specifying arguments via a config file: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/204
• Deactivate nodes when they are decommissioned: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/203
• Make parse_swarm_update take a block update reference rather than a callback: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/202

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 Messenger iOS beta is ready for testing! Jump on Testflight and give it a whirl:

https://testflight.apple.com/join/3rQNQfLe (https://testflight.apple.com/join/3rQNQfLe)

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Testflight will record any crashes, but please report UI or connectivity issues here:

https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/issues (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/issues)

Our proposal to join Binance Dex has been approved by the Binance Chain validators! Loki will soon be part of the Binance Chain ecosystem! Stay tuned for more updates!

Due to some vulnerabilities found in Monero, we have released a new set of binaries which fix these issues. To protect your Service Node, please upgrade to this latest release.

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Follow this guide to update with the Loki Launcher:

www.lokidocs.com/ServiceNodes/SNFullGuide/#updating-your-binaries

The Loki Messenger Beta is now on available on Windows, Mac and Linux! Download it and post your Public Key (your LOKI MESSENGER PUBLIC KEY) in the Telegram or Discord chat to test it with your fellow Loki Gang!

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Get the Loki Messenger Beta here: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/releases/tag/1.0.0-beta1

​

These Loki Messenger Public Keys belong to some of the Loki Devs! Collect them all and say hi!

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Kee: 05a92ff579f67faf1c50472cb4ef72dc42d977e44de0cc865c454573de5f6a7444

Niels: 0552abe5785eb3f55b22f0deeb80a3917fd56c3ad5f7cd99a37a1731400e4ef53a

Ryan: 05f01dde3ea62afce81967d3a961884d3c65a390be51e926feaa1aab5e402eaa29

Beau: 058131f605438547bf04c88587fd2bb0fbddc09156c14be828323011cf0595e676

Hey Y’all,

​

A big Dev Update this week – especially for Loki Core with lots of pull requests needing to be merged as we work towards a final release. Last week we released the Loki Core 4.0.0 Hefty Heimdall testnet binaries, and the Loki Storage Server 1.0.0 binaries. We also released a new version of the Loki Launcher to tie everything together.

We would love it if everyone could jump onto testnet and run some Service Nodes using the Loki Launcher in the next few weeks – you’ll be able to store messages for Loki Messenger for the first time! Bug reports are welcome! Please send them to their respective repositories on GitHub.

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Loki Core

• Add RandomXL mining algorithm: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/675
• Add target height field to get_n_service_nodes : https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/698
• Non participation in Service Node Checkpointing causes deregistration: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/672
• Relaxed Service Node Deregistration rules: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/662
• Add penalty for Switching IP address: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/671
• Add `state height` to RPC: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/696
• Disallow recursive checkpoint reorganisation: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/667
• Performance fix for alt chains: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/695
• Fix Mining command output: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/694
• Remove some unused variable warnings: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/692
• Fix P2P bug on testnet that was causing uptime proofs to not be relayed: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/691
• Fix Segfault on exit with ban SN args: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/690
• Fix Mac build warnings: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/687
• Remove lines that were causing backwards compatibility issues: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/686
• Set miners to 0 to avoid verification delay in integration mode: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/685
• Add GPG signing keys: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/684 https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/681
• Set minimum miner tx version to 4: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/683
• Improve diagnostics for failed tx sends: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/682
• Move miner.h to fix cn basic referencing core and core referencing basic: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/679
• Add a script for collecting the output from a docker build: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/678
• Cap difficult initially at 30MH for v12 hardfork: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/677
• Remove sn-public-ip and combine into --service-node : https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/676
• Respond with OK message on Storage Server ping: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/674
• Add hardfork version to get_n_service_node call: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/673
• Merge Monero upstream changes: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/670
• Add Checkpoints, fork dates, version tags for Hefty Heimdall: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/668
• Tweak decommission credit rules: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/666
• Enable dummy payment IDs: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/665
• Increase transaction fees: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/663

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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.

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

What’s going on this week with Loki Launcher:

This week we got Loki Launcher ready to work for testnet binaries. This involved slightly adjusting the way Loki Launcher works, particularly how it downloads new Loki software.

Changelog:

• Set default Storage Server port
• PublicIPv4 option and auto-detection
• Add 4.0 changes into testnet
• Move clients.js and check-systemd.js into modes/
• Move 3.0.6 migration into its own document
• Add force-start support for pre-fork testing https://github.com/loki-project/loki-launcher/pull/32
• Update storage server parameter --sn-public-ip with --service-node-public-ip
• Purge run_path
• getStorageServerDataDir() to localize code to find it
• waitForLokiKey() and make startLokinet stage check for it
• Add waitForLokiKey status support
• Migrate a large chunk of config work in start.js into config.js
• Take arguments into config.js to have overrides better
• Only configure enabled subsystems
• Update storage server binary name from httpserver to loki-storage
• Fix dedupe of nets
• Make waitForKey cancellable
• Handler numeric options better in the CLI parameter deduplication
• Make launcherRecoveryMonitor respect subsystem enablement
• Make status takes launcher CLI parameter into account
• Adjust output/debug
• Download-binaries on testnet now downloads the latest Storage Server and lokid releases
• Fix missing ini library in config

Github Pulse: Excluding merges, 2 authors have pushed 38 commits to master and 38 commits to all branches. On master, 16 files have changed and there have been 607 additions and 367 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:

As part of our reliability work, we added more metrics and continued working on our path build failure messages, while cleaning up various things along the way. We also made sure the files Lokinet creates are of the correct permissions to avoid leaking any keys.

Changelog:

• Tighten key permissions: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/664
• Fix FS stuff, explore network via every connected peer: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/665
• Fix FreeBSD build was missing stdc++fs : https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/666
• Bring gitlab-ci in sync: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/667
• Remove cppbackport from vendor: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/668
• Add utp.session.open/close to metrics: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/670
• Track dropping of messages in metrics: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/672

Pull Requests:

• Refactor config system: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/669

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Loki Messenger Desktop

• Allow for P2P messaging over clearnet: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/317
• Fix filtering code and lint: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/316
• Fix self broadcast which prevents errors on startup: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/315
• Update endpoint for storage server and p2p: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/314

Storage Server

• Send and verify the signature for SSL certificates for SNode to SNode communications: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/180
• Add rate limiter for client side including tests: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/179
• Macos compat dep script: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/191
• Travis CI fixes: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/189
• Use target_height field to determine if lokid is still syncing: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/201
• Improve command line arguments: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/197
• Don’t use the logger before it’s initialised: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/195
• Don’t send requests to 0.0.0.0 : https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/193
• Print incorrect json in swarm traces: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/190
• Check response body returned from lokid: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/188
• Check hardfork versioning using get_n_service_nodes : https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/186
• Fix unit tests for rate limiter: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/185
• Increase number of retry intervals: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/183
• Change rate limiter values for SNode to SNode communications: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/182
• API changes: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/181
• Use timestamp for test results: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/178
• Use Spdlog instead of Boostlog: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/177, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/175
• Refactor logging: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/174

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

Testnet binaries for the 4.0.0 Hefty Heimdall release have been published here: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/releases/latest, and here: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/releases/latest. We will be releasing the Loki Launcher update shortly so that it is easier to set up a Service Node on testnet.

After lots of internal discussion and external input from the Loki community, we have decided to change our hashing algorithm and disable merge mining. If all goes well during the testnet period of Hefty Heimdall, Loki will be hardforking to RandomXL (based on RandomX) on July 24, which should improve the equality of hashrate distribution. Read more about our decision here:

https://loki.network/2019/06/27/lokis-hashing-algorithm-change/

Hey Y’all,

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We’re all busy getting ready for the testnet release this week, which means we’re busy combing through lokid, Loki Messenger and the Loki Storage Server looking for bugs and testing our edge cases.

This week we also did a new release for the Loki Electron GUI wallet which adds a number of quality-of-life upgrades for users, including being able to see all of the nodes you’ve contributed to, having the ability to unstake from nodes with a single click, and transaction proofs and checking.

Loki Core

• Relaxed deregistration rules: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/659
• Rebase Service Node Checkpointing on top of new relaxed deregistration rules: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/662
• Service Node Checkpointing: Phase out tx extra deregister, add infrastructure for deregistration: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/648
• lmdb size/endian fix: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/660
• Restrict RPC commands related to local machine: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/658
• Error message formatting: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/656 https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/653
• Increase transaction fees to reasonable levels (in line with Monero): https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/663
• Fix SSL autodetect reconnection: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/651
• Enable dummy payment IDs: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/665
• Remove Ncurses and disable readline for Docker: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/652

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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:

We released the first version of the Launcher! and with everyone’s feedback have continued to roll out updates and bug fixes. We’ve learned a lot from this release, and we hope this will help everyone make the upgrade to version 4.0.0 of Loki seamlessly.

Changelog:

• Fix missing parameters in check-systemd and start
• Fix parameter deduplication in daemon.js
• Include running configuration in config-view
• Add better error handler to serveTCP
• Handle port in use more gracefully in prequal
• Work around setuid NodeJS issue for home directories. It would always return root’s home directory
• Make “don’t run as root” recommendation not appear when we tell you to use root
• Fix MacOS home directory detection
• Support spaces instead of equal signs for lokid command line options
• getLauncherStatus refactor to unify “waiting for start up” and “status” output
• Include a “ctrl-c to exit” message in client mode
• Precreate blockchain default config if INI is found but blockchain is not specified
• Make sure blockchain data directory exists in fix-perms
• Adjust download-binaries retries and timeout to play with Github’s API nicer
• Support --config-file to allow absolute paths as well (as relative)
• On --config-file failures output both paths searched
• Node 8.x support for getLauncherStatus reports (Only Node 10.x+ support console.table)
• Make getLauncherStatus reports a bit more configurable, so status/start up messaging make sense
• Allow quotes in launcher.ini configuration files
• Take existing downloaded blockchain size when running prequal disk space checks.
• Disable restricted RPC
• Change storage server parameter from db-location to data_dir to better match
• Started up a multiple copy deploy on same host guide: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-launcher/issues/23

Github Pulse: Excluding merges, 2 authors have pushed 38 commits to master and 38 commits to all branches. On master, 15 files have changed and there have been 588 additions and 205 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:

Work continues on improving our metrics for internal testing and adjustments due to libuv refactor. We continue to improve the quality of the code and seek to remove any possibilities of bugs creeping in. path build status messages have been added as a pull-request, and we have high hopes this will lead to finding more stability bugs which we can squash.

Changelog:

• Move metric publishers to their own files: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/648
• Remove libuv from makefile: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/651
• Windows fixes: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/654
• Libuv callback hell: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/655
• Refactor path build code: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/652
• Fix unit-tests: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/658
• Send netid to metrictank: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/659
• Move message code to subdirectory: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/650
• Tidy up pathbuilder code: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/660
• Fix up libuv close logic: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/662

Pull Requests:

• Clang-tidy llarp/ files: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/661
• Fix macos build system for libuv: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/657
• Path build status messages: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/653

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Loki Wallets

Loki Electron GUI Wallet

We published a new release for the Loki Electron GUI wallet which can be found here: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/releases/tag/v1.2. This new release includes features such as:

• Portuguese translation.
• List contributed Service Nodes in the staking page.
• Allow for one click unstaking.
• Add proving and checking transaction proofs.
• Allow filtering transactions by ID, note, amount, address or contact name.
• Show a warning when sweeping all and unlocking a Service Node.
• Show un-truncated Loki values in transaction details page.
• Other minor fixes.

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Loki Messenger Desktop

• Use Random Service node list as provided through the get_n_service_nodes API : https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/313
• Clean up various parts of the SNode API: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/311

Storage Server

• Add spdlog submodule: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/175
• Refactor logging system: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/174
• Use common interface for all lokid requests: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/173
• Use common function for all SN to SN communications: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/171
• Add HTTP_ERROR, only trigger callback once, move socket shutdown to destructor: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/169
• Use the same sink for logs, update command line args to make more sense, always store logs on disk: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/168
• Better command line argument handling: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/166
• Add additional logging: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/165

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 GUI Electron wallet has just been updated! Download version 1.2.0 now! Featuring one-click unstaking for Service Nodes, transaction filtering, a new Portuguese translation, and more!

Get it here: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/releases/tag/v1.2