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Weekly Dev Update #59

Weekly Dev Update #59

31 July 2019Admin

Hey Y’all, 

This week we’ve mostly worked on bugs that were affecting Service Node operators as they transitioned from lokid 3.0.X to the 4.0.3 suite of Loki Service Node tools. We published a new release for the Loki Storage Server and Launcher, and we have also made good progress on transitioning Loki Messenger to the mainnet so it can take advantage of the ~550 Loki Storage Servers.

Loki Core

Lokinet

If you’re on our Discord you can catch Jeff, the lead developer of LLARP, live streaming as he codes at https://www.twitch.tv/uguu25519. He typically streams on Tuesday mornings, 9am – 12pm Eastern (US) time.

What’s going on this week with Lokinet: 

All of the pull requests for the next version are either merged, or reviewed and to be merged in the next day or so. We are spinning up a distributed “toy” network to test the stability and functionality of the codebase in anticipation of a public release sometime in the next week or two (testing dependent). We also have internally-working debian packages for various recent Debian and Ubuntu versions to allow easy installation of Lokinet on those systems, and plan to release these with the public release.

Changelog:

New/updated Pull Requests:

Loki Messenger Desktop 

Storage Server

Loki Launcher

What’s going on this week with Loki Launcher:

With the launch of the Hefty Heimdall hardfork, the Loki Storage Server is now active. This week, after tracking down a number of bug reports submitted in Telegram and Discord about unexpected crashes, we found the suspect behaviour and put in a work around into the 1.0.0 release of the launcher. We also added a couple of fixes as a few new eyes were on the code, and improved its accuracy of status and startup.

Changelog:

  • Fix Storage Server pipe that would lock up Storage Server

  • Fix Storage Server stderr handler typo

  • SIGHUP guard fix

  • Double check running pid

  • Use SIGTERM instead of SIGINT to stop processes

  • Handle socket write errors better

  • Test socket for connectivity in status

  • Clear stale pid and socket files

  • Move uncaught exception log into var_path

  • Make sure Storage Server is running before startup is successful

  • Change version for git checkouts to be the last committed revision

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. 

Loki Messenger on Mobile (iOS and Android)

We are very close to an Android release of Loki Messenger, and are now testing it internally in the office.

Thanks,  

Kee 

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