Weekly Dev Update #50

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.

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/

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

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