Weekly Dev Update #34

Hey Y’all,

We’re back with another Dev Update for you all.

Loki Core

• Infinite Staking refinement and squashing new bugs including

https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/406

• New Infinite Staking integration tests being implemented:

https://github.com/Doy-lee/loki-integration-testing/commits/master

LLARP / Lokinet

If you’re lucky and join our Discord, you might also catch Jeff or Ryan, the developers of LLARP, live streaming as they code: https://www.twitch.tv/uguu25519,https://www.twitch.tv/neuroscr

We could really use your help. To be considered for inclusion in packaging distribution, we need people to star, watch and fork our Github repo. If you have a Github account, please consider helping us out.

• Master branch changes

• Posted binaries with the 0.3.1 release

• Changes can be found at:

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

• Staging branch changes (gets posted to master when stable)

• PR suggested changes (coming to staging soon)

Loki Messenger

• Finalised and merged error handling for queries to Service Nodes (

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/147

  )

• Implemented logic to broadcast Loki address (currently a placeholder value as it depends on Lokinet) to initiate P2P (

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/157

  )

• Fixed high-CPU usage bug when offline (

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/159

  )

• Implemented P2P connection management by pinging the contact list, and routing messages through these connections when available (

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/161

  , 

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/167

  )

• Display an online indicator around each contact’s avatar (

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/165

  ) and within the conversation window (

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/171

  )

• Diverse code improvements and refactor 

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/160

  , 

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/162

  )

• Added a generic job queue manager to prevent read-write race conditions when accessing the database asynchronously (

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/164

  ) and reuse that queue manager at another location (

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/169

  )

• Fixed the network warning showing up too early at startup due to Lokinet warm-up time  (

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/168

  )

Thanks,  

Kee