Weekly Dev Update #128

Hey Y’all, 

This week the Lokinet team continued working on fixes for the Mac release, which had some unresolved issues in the installer/uninstaller. The Loki Core team worked on the 8.1.4 release, which fixes a few issues exchanges were encountering and adds some new features to the wallet which are likely to be used in the Chainflip Service Node airdrop. Capping things off, the Session team began a large refactorisation effort which we will be talking about publicly in the coming weeks. 

Loki Core 

• Remove unused wallet address parameter

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1357

   

• List current stakes

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1356

• Add GUI wallet snapshot builds

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1354

   

• Only compile CN_Monero_hash on Android

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1353

• Add new staking methods to wallet API: requestStakeUnlock, canRequestStakeUnlock

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1352

   

• 8.1.4 release

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/releases/tag/v8.1.4

• [LokiMQ] Fix compatibility with newer cppzmq

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-mq/pull/23

• [LokiMQ] Issue new 1.2.2 release

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-mq/pull/26

Lokinet

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 went on last week with Lokinet: Various PRs to fix various minor Linux, Windows, and macOS bugs found since last week’s 0.8.1 release.  We’re nearly ready for an updated release for Linux/Windows (and initial 0.8 series release for Mac) with just a couple small issues left before the release.

Lokinet PR Activity:

• Fix Windows exit enabling causing lokinet GUI updates to timeout

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1473

• Fix exit routing configuration on some Linux systems

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1480

• Fix liblokinet-cryptography installation location on Linux

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1482

• Make key loading failures more serious errors

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1437

• Properly restore DNS settings on uninstall (macOS)

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1478

• Fix macos uninstaller not properly shutting down Lokinet

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1484

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1488

• [LokiMQ] Fix potential segfault on destruction (triggered on macOS Lokinet GUI shutdown)

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-mq/pull/25

• Clean up DNS handling code

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1490

• Improve path handover reliability

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1491

• Fix errors at launch on older versions of Qt

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network-control-panel/pull/77

• Make “notray” mode the default so that the lokinet GUI behaves more like a regular desktop application

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network-control-panel/pull/80

• Use a single LokiMQ connection between GUI and backend instead of 4 separate ones

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network-control-panel/pull/79

• Remove no-longer-required macOS entitlements

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network-control-panel/pull/86

Session

Session iOS 

• Session iOS sending and receiving pipeline refactorisation continues

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/commits/refactor-4

    

• Fix open group avatar issues

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/314

   

Session Android

• Link preview improvements

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/382

   

• Polish translation fixes (Thanks to community contributor Kacper1263 for this)

  https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/383

   

Session Desktop

• Continue the React refactorisation

  https://github.com/Bilb/loki-messenger/commits/react-refactor

   

Thanks,  

Kee