Weekly Dev Update #23

Hey Y’all,

This will be the last Dev Update before the Festive Freya release goes live on testnet!

Loki core

• Add testnet and mainnet hard fork block height and Version numbers 

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/318

• Continue writing integration testing framework 

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/312

• Add elements to core which allow for GUI differentiation of rewards 

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/322

• Add the API for staking from the GUI

   https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/315

• Fix bug that would lock stake if left inactive for too long in registration 

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/313

Service Nodes

• Add Core tests for Service Node swarms

   https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/321

LLARP / Lokinet

• Progress continues on libllarp

• DNS library

• GitHub Pulse Stats for the last week: Excluding merges, 4 authors have pushed 17 commits to master and 71 commits to all branches. On master, 67 files have changed and there have been 1,818 additions and 296 deletions.

• Most changes can be found at:

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/

• Current version: v0.3.1

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/releases/tag/v0.3.1

Loki Messenger

• Add a loading icon while PoW is being calculated 

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/43

• Restore cyphertext padding to preserve Signal protocol

   https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/42

• Add friend requests 

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/33

• Add friend request notifications 

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/41

• Merge Signal upstream changes 

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/40

• Grab message from server by last hash 

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/39

• Block duplicate friend requests 

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/38

• Make network status warnings work with HTTP polling 

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/37

• ES2015 classes for LokiServer and FallBackSessionCipher 

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/34

• Message Server polling to collect messages 

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/29

Loki Storage Server

• Include the last hash with each message request 

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/9

• Move DatabaseHandler into Storage class 

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/8

• Refactor JSON 

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/6

Loki GUI

• Merge in the GUI upstream changes from Monero 

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-gui/pull/53

• Differentiate Service Node and Miner rewards in the GUI Tx history 

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-gui/pull/54

We also made a pull request to Monero to add our code for IPv6 support, which will be included in the next Loki release. https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/4851

Thanks,

Kee