Hey Y’all,

This week we worked hard developing features for a number of upcoming releases, including finally nailing down some issues which have drastically increased the stability of Lokinet, adding lots of new UX features to Loki Messenger, and the continued testing of Service Node checkpointing for Loki core. If you like releases, September is going to be an exciting month with lots of new tools for users to test and play with!

Loki Core

Add storage server reachability field; test it with quorums: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/820.
Make get_checkpoints_range faster by using LMDB cursor as iterator: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/819.
Update testnet and stagenet seed nodes: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/818.
Update transaction fees to appropriately mitigate spam attacks in preparation for next release: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/816.

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 went on last week with Lokinet:

After implementing the new wire protocol to replace libutp, we’ve seen a significant improvement to the performance and stability of Lokinet. We’re now putting the final touches on for a public 0.5.0 release.

PR activity:

New wire protocol: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/783.
Various minor fixes to shadow, build systems: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/784, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/785, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/786.
Reduce excessively verbose logging: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/788.
Improve path building behaviour: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/789.
Fix timeout hook not being called properly: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/792.
Reduce router CPU usage: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/796.

Loki Messenger Desktop

Add QR code display to desktop devices: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/461.
Simplify local profiles: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/453.
Lower PoW difficulty on testing clients and add export to build-release yarn call: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/462.
Save the last retrieved message for public chats on the conversation: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/460.
Fix loading during registration: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/459.
Move initialisation of public and RSS conversations to fix early load: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/458.
[multi-device] Share primary device profile name upon secondary registration: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/457.
[multi-device] Secondary registration UX changes: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/456.
Support deleting messages in public chats: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/455.
[multi-device] Shorten TTL for message pairing requests: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/454.
Fix feed reader for single element results: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/449.
[Public Authentication] Add identity token retrieval functions to public chat API: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/448.
[Public Authentication] Authenticate sending: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/447.
[Public Authentication] Add crypto helpers and public errors: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/446.
[Public Authentication] Add database tables and helper functions for public server Authentication: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/445.
[multi-device] Format message details to show secondary pubkey properly: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/443.
[multi-device] Change Signal outgoing messages to support multiple pubkeys: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/441.
[multi-device] Display incoming messages in the primary device conversation: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/440.
[multi-device] Prevent showing inbox if secondary registration is ongoing: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/439.

Loki Storage Server

Book-keeping of storage server reachability and auto reporting to lokid for node that fail reachability tests: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/268.
Periodically ping other storage servers: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/265.

Loki Messenger for Mobile (iOS and Android)

What went on last week with Loki Messenger:

Loki Messenger for Android and iOS continues to be brought in line with the latest features on desktop. We’re gearing up for a new release which will publish these new features to beta testers.

Loki Messenger iOS

Support for RSS style update feeds, initially from the Loki team: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/41.
Message deletion for group chats: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/40.
Refactoring of message deletion: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/44.
Allow user to initiate deletion request: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/43.

Loki Messenger Android

Localisation changes: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/pull/17.
Add support for RSS style update feeds: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/pull/16.

Thanks, 

Kee

What do you mean, CN coin?

Cryptonote? If so, yes. It's based on Monero, and similarly, has no max supply.

Could you please update the total supply statistic on your page. Loki does NOT have a total/max supply.

Hey Y’all,

This week we focused on new features for Loki Messenger, such as allowing moderators and users to delete messages. We also worked on adding QR codes to Loki Messenger and shortening seed words. Last week Lokinet also investigated per path buffers and reverted to a custom wire protocol to alleviate some performance issues.

Loki Core

Reorg checks for Service Node checkpointing count on alt chains: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/814.
Store state up to the 2nd oldest checkpoint or height – 360: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/815.
Prune defines & fix GCC warnings: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/813.
Fix decommissioned snodes not leaving swarms: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/812.
Enforce minimum storage server version: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/811.

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 went on last week with Lokinet:

After some brainstorming in the Lokinet team regarding the performance issues we ran into during testing (see last week’s Dev Update), the Lokinet developers devised and are implementing two solutions. While we had hoped to put these off to a future release, it has become increasingly apparent that they were required for a stable 0.5 release.  Preliminary results of these changes are promising and we are finishing them up and testing the improvements this week.

One of these fixes was to replace the underlying protocol layer (currently based on libutp) with a custom design.  This replacement has been a long term goal for months, but recent limitations have shown that the existing layer simply does not scale to the level that we require in Lokinet – so we brought forward implementation of the replacement.

The other change was to make internal router-to-router communication buffers happen on a per-path rather than per-router basis, so that one slow Lokinet path does not slow down other lLkinet paths using some of the same routers.  Instead, slow paths will be deprioritised to allow routers to continue passing messages along higher speed Lokinet paths – while the communication along the slower path catches up.

New/Updated/Pending PRs:

Replacement of the link protocol layer: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/783.
Per-path buffers (no PR yet; work still in progress).

Loki Messenger Desktop

[multi-device] Fix main header being redrawn every 100ms: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/434.
[multi-device] UI for accepting pairing request on primary devices: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/433.
[multi-device] Secondary device registration UI: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/431.
[multi-device] Handle incoming pairing authorisation message: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/430.
More updates to the Loki notification chat: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/429.
[multi-device] Add high-level function to send a pairing request: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/428.
Group chat authentication (precursor for message deletion from moderators in group chats): https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/425.
Show actual time message was sent, instead of relative timestamps: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/424.
Add ‘Pair New Device’ in menu: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/432.
Add databases and some protocol changes:  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/427.
[multi-device] Fix pubkey validation:  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/426.

Loki Storage Server

Move from strings to version numbers: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/264.
Send version ping to lokid: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/263.
Fix incorrectly decrementing open http connections on timeout:  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/262.

Loki Messenger for Mobile (iOS and Android)

What went on last week with Loki Messenger:

We focused on adding a number of features in the updated desktop Loki Messenger back into mobile versions, including group chats, shorter seed words, and QR code scanning.

Loki Messenger iOS

Add QR code, scanning and display: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/39.
Add group chat support: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/37, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/36.
Add group chat authentication: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/38.
Shorten seeds to 12 words: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/pull/35.

Loki Messenger Android

Replace naming scheme in various places: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/pull/14.
Add group chat message deletion: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/pull/15.
Add public chat authentication: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/pull/12.
Add QR code, scanning and display: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/pull/11.

Thanks, 

Kee

Hey Pi314s,

Most certainly! We are definitely an open-source project and often engage with the community on different Loki focused initiatives. If you are genuinely interested in assisting with the project team, you can always shoot off an email to team@loki.network and we can point it to the right people.

Hey Y’all,

A small update this week as many of the Loki devs are attending conferences (I’m at Blockchain Week Berlin) or on holiday. Most of our work went into Loki Core and Lokinet releases, where we are successfully improving stability on both fronts.

Loki Core

Fix uptime proof submission after recommison transactions: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/805
Fix Service Node incorrect winner error in 4.0.4: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/803
Print bad winners when incorrect winner is encountered: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/802
Move assert to fix debugging issue: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/799
Re add IPv6 support, with subnet banning: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/798
Continue tx pool quorum query if state change is older than block: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/797
Avoid race condition triggered by old checkpoint: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/796
Add various fixes for slow P2P syncing: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/794
Fix regression in core tests, missing txs on fork and segfaults on detach: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/793
Fix checkpoint regression, must accept alt blocks if they are less than the first checkpoint: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/792

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:

We continued to focus on testing and fixing up various issues. Some major PRs have been added which have noticeably increased Lokinet connection and stability, however these changes have introduced a regression in network speed that we’re investigating. Next week we are focusing on solving the aforementioned issues, plus other general testing and fixes for an upcoming 0.5 release. The changelog for this past week is lighter than normal as Jeff was away for most of the week, but he’s back and at it now!

Changelog:

Implemented connection limiting to avoid connection backlogging stalls: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/768
Fix the “make install” target to not install an unwanted binary:  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/775
Add better travis-ci build names for easier identification of which builds fail: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/776
Various build system fixes: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/778,  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/769, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/779
Minor code simplifications: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/780, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/782
Increase router contact debugging: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/781

New/updated/pending PRs:

More Windows bug fixes: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/777

Loki Messenger for Mobile (iOS and Android)

What’s going on this week with Loki Messenger:

We released the APK for Loki Messenger for Android which means Loki Messenger is now available on all major platforms! We will be working hard to iron out bugs and improve the user experience over the coming months.

Work on Loki Messenger for Android can be found in these repositories: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android-core/commits/master, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/commits/master
Work on Loki Messenger for iOS can be found here: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/commits/dev, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios-pods/commits/master

Thanks, 

Kee

SOLVED!

Remember the big, difficult, fire-breathing, brain-melting puzzle from Festive Freya last year? Well, after eight months of puzzling? It's finally been solved! Congratulations to Pogo and silver_anth!

Read how they did it here: https://medium.com/@elronvhubbard/loki-and-freya-a-christmas-story-c7aeca212ce6

Service Node Operators!

We STRONGLY RECOMMEND updating to Hefty Heimdall 4.0.5 immediately. Due to a bug in the previous release, there’s a high chance you’ll be deregistered if you don’t.

To update with Loki Launcher, follow this guide: https://docs.loki.network/ServiceNodes/SNFullGuide/#updating-your-binaries

If you have a legacy node, follow this guide: https://docs.loki.network/ServiceNodes/SNFullGuideLegacy/

You're welcome. I'm glad you are finding the updates and information useful. We are really excited about what is to come, especially in regards to Loki Messenger. We're developing more and more features so that when the final version is released, it is a really nice user experience and is the most private messenger out there!

Dearest Android users!

There's a new #LokiMessenger beta update in town, and guess what? You can get it straight from the Google Play Store!

This update includes bug-squashes and allows automatic updates!

Download it here:

https://play.google.com/apps/testing/network.loki.messenger

Hey Y’all,

This week we continued work on some key areas in Loki Messenger, including adding chat channel support for Android and iOS, and starting work on support for Loki Messenger across multiple devices. We also released an update to the Loki Storage Server which allows for the measuring of additional statistics, so we can continue to monitor the network and the success of the switch from testnet to mainnet for Loki Messenger.

Loki Core

There’ll be a point release to Loki Core this week with a number of bug fixes that should increase Service Node stability. This is not a mandatory upgrade but is recommended for those running Service Nodes.

Update Seed Nodes to remove inactive Seed Nodes (please contact the development team if you believe you can run a Seed Node):  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/791
Service Node data optimisations and code cleanups/simplifications: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/788
Don’t relay Service Node votes or uptime proofs if node is syncing: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/779
Preserve pre 4.0.4 quorum states: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/786
Remove boundary HF12 uptime proof code: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/785
Make the rollback code for update_checkpoint be a soft fork compatible on the mainnet: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/782
Handle multi state changes in the pool: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/781
Remove NOTIFY_NEW_DEREGISTER_VOTE_CODE, inline the use of update_miner_block_template as it’s declared publicly but only used in cryptonote_core. Remove legacy P2P vote conversion methods: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/778
Fix checkpointing regression: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/792
Filter vote age before querying a Quorum (prevents vote spam): https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/777

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:

Testing continues. We’ve identified a couple of issues related to existing sessions closing prematurely: we have a good idea where they are happening and are focusing on solving them.

Changelog:

Fix for a situation where a client could get flooded off the network: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/751.
Fix expired rcs sometimes not being regenerated:  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/752.
Detect and drop mismatched convo tags: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/755, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/761.
Fix a deadlock that could occur when no outbound links exist: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/756.
Fix to use only the intro, not the intro reply, for session expiry detection: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/757.
Don’t close the libutp session when the write buffer is full:  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/761.
Fixes to thread safety when debugging metrics collection is in use:  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/759.
Build system fixes for macOS and Windows:  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/746, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/748, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/749.
Build testing with (pre-release) next-gen gcc version: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/746.
Various windows fixes: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/715.

New/updated/pending PRs:

Lokinet monitor terminal application to monitor the status of a running Lokinet: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/764.
More utp timeout fixes: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/763.
Added automatic code style checks via travis-ci job:  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/760.
Disable metrics calculations (used for debugging) by default:  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/754.
Add a docker compose framework to allow building/deploying via docker:  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/750.

Loki Messenger for Desktop

Use Server ID instead of UUID for message deletion purposes: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/390.
Add right click option to members in a public chat to easily add new contacts: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/387.
Start on multi-device syncing support by adding the ability to authorise a second account from the primary account: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/381.
Report Mnemonic phrase failures instead of silently failing: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/391.
Add missing Mnemonic phrase languages: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/389.
Generate 13 word seeds instead of 25 word seeds: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/386.
Delay disconnected status and stop emitting empty events: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/382.
Small bug fixes: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/384, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/380, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/379, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/378.

Storage Server

Demote warnings and add a getlogs endpoint: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/256, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/260.
Add the number of recent storage and retrieval requests to stats: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/258.
Warn the Storage Server operator if their version is out of date:  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/257.
Add the number of active connections in each type of get_stats : https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/255.
Add better diagnostics for the Storage Server: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/254.

Loki Messenger for Mobile (iOS and Android)

This week we released the APK for Loki Messenger for Android which means Loki Messenger is now available on all major platforms! We will be working hard to iron out bugs and improve the user experience of over the coming months.

Work on Loki Messenger for Android can be found in these repositories: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android-core/commits/master, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/commits/master.
Work on Loki Messenger for iOS can be found here: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/commits/dev, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios-pods/commits/master.
Thanks, 

Kee

The next Loki Roundtable is happening on August 14th 10am AEST - join us there!

If you can’t make it, submit a question here and keep an eye out for the video on YouTube: https://www.menti.com/y8h23i7z7c

Loki mining is only CPU currently. As RandomXL is a new algorithm there is no GPU support as of yet.
You can always join the mining telegram to speak to the big commuity of Loki miners, they would be your best resource for information.

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Hey Y’all,

This week we finished up with the release of the Loki Messenger Android application. We also released the Loki Binance Bridge which was developed over the past few months and has now been open sourced on Github. Over the next few weeks we really want to focus on improving the user experience in Loki Messenger, and add lots of new and highly requested features like group messages, attachments etc…

Loki Core

Demote error message for missing quorum in handling non-standard txes: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/769.
Immutable checkpoint API update: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/773.
Use defer on scope exit to remove some repetitive code: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/771.
Add progress meter to pop_blocks : https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/770
Reject new votes that can be slipped through the syncing phase at startup: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/768.
Add missing LOKI_RPC_DOC_INTROSPECT annotations: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/776.

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:

Lokinet is now feature frozen and in pre-release testing.  We’ve frozen the code to any new features and are testing it internally using various network environments.  The Lokinet team’s focus right now is to get the 0.5.0 release out and working; we’re putting off any major changes and improvements until a stable release is out the door.  This week has seen several fixes to minor issues found so far.

While we had intended for Lokinet to use IPv6 routing internally, testing revealed some problems with this approach (particularly in the non-Linux implementations), so we have deferred that change to a future release. 

Note: this isn’t a change to require IPv6 connectivity for Lokinet, but just for Lokinet virtual addresses to be IPv6 based.

Changelog:

Add link-relay status messages and delivery feedback: these PRs use the recently refactored router code to allow signalling of where a Lokinet connection fails along the connection path: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/732, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/737.
Run main in its own thread and set its process name: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/734.

Various fixes to:

DHT exploration: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/741.
Testnet crash fix: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/740.
Direct snode-to-snode traffic fix: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/742.
Fix socket leaks, path builds, IPv4/v6 interoperability fix, remove internal connection limit: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/747.
Automated test build system improvements:  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/743,  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/744.

New/Updated/Pending Pull Requests:

Build system fixes for MacOS and Windows: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/746, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/748, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/749.
Build testing with (pre-release) next-gen gcc version: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/746.
Updated and additional Windows fixes:  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/715.

Loki Messenger Desktop

Add a toggle option for typing indicators; use short ttl for them: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/377.
Bold user profile name and truncate pubkeys: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/375.
Only send read receipts for users that are your friends: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/374.
Separate mainnet and testnet: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/371.
Add button to paste messenger pubkey from clipboard: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/370.
Send message ID to public chats, save messages with the same ID when receiving public chats: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/369.
Show correct error when an invalid timestamp is present: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/373.
Enforce code styling: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/368.

Storage Server

Work in progress for testnet flag: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/253.

Loki Binance Bridge

This week we released the Loki Binance Bridge which facilitates swaps between Loki and B-Loki. You can test it out and get trading on the the Binance DEX right now by accessing https://lokibridge.com. Read about how it works on our blog: https://loki.network/2019/08/06/loki-now-on-binance-dex/.

All commits for the Loki Bridge can be found here: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-binance-bridge/commits/master.
Fix autoswap balance issues: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-binance-bridge/pull/2.
Include better error messages: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-binance-bridge/pull/4.
Wait before running autoswaps: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-binance-bridge/pull/3/files.

Loki Messenger on Mobile (iOS and Android)

This week we also released the APK for Loki Messenger Android which means Loki Messenger is now available on all major platforms! We will be working hard to iron out bugs and improve the experience of using messenger over the coming months.

Work on Loki Messenger for Android can be found in these repositories: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android-core/commits/master, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/commits/master.
Work on Loki Messenger for iOS can be found here: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/commits/dev, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios-pods/commits/master.

Thanks, 

Kee

As of today (like, right now), Loki is listed on Binance DEX!

Check out our handy blog post to find out everything you need to know about B-Loki, Loki Bridge, and how it all works.

https://loki.network/2019/08/06/loki-now-on-binance-dex/

Loki Messenger beta for Android is out NOW! Yes, REALLY!

Make sure to tap ‘Install Anyway’ when you download (check the image link below if unsure): https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/releases/download/1.0.0-alpha.1/Loki-Messenger-1.0.0-Alpha.apk

Happy testing!

Loki Messenger BETA for iOS now live on mainnet!

Download the latest version here:

testflight.apple.com/join/3rQNQfLe

Desktop version should update auto-magically too.

Happy testing!

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

Reject new votes that can be slipped through the syncing phase at startup: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/768
Improve syncing times by storing historical Service Node list every 10,000 blocks: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/761
Don’t query the blockchain for hardfork (causes major slowdown in upgrade): https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/764
Improve duplicated non-standard tx check error messages: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/763
Fix ranged quorum query: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/762
Fix off by 1 when checking state_t heights causing sync failure: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/759
Fix off by1 on blockchain detach: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/758

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:

Refactor router code to allow protocol improvements, most notably propagating path building successes/failures. This was a huge PR, making significant code improvements and fixes: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/728 (plus some small followup changes and fixes in PRs #730, #731, #733).
Fix Android compilation: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/729
More Spanish docs translation (and a promise for more to come!) from @rjmalagon: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/725
Debian packaging code updated and refactored to support Debian 9, 10 and Ubuntu 18.04, 19.04 releases (no PR).
New/updated Pull Requests:

Add link-relay status messages: this uses the refactored router code (see above) to allow signalling of where a Lokinet connection fails along the connection path:  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/732
Add link layer delivery feedback: extends the above with additional information: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/737
Run main in its own thread and set its process name: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/734
Windows build for travis-ci: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/726
Fixes for Lokinet on Windows: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/715

Loki Messenger Desktop

Add startup disclaimer for Beta versions of Loki Messenger: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/365
Loki Messenger updates feed: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/360
Link preview fix: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/362
Fill out unregister channel stub, trigger unregister channel on conversation deletion: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/361
Group name display: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/359
Add public badge: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/358
Merge Basis for Cleartext group messaging: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/356

Storage Server

Invalid port detection: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/250
Only use IPv4 results for http, and use url for seed nodes: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/249
Add function names for log messages: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/248
Only receive stats from active Service Nodes: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/247
Ignore swapfiles and reject localhost binding: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/246
Send storage server version number on get_stats: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/245
Fix PoW parsing, add some failure debugging: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/240

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.

Add emojis to represent different types of transactions: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-onion-blockchain-explorer/pull/4
Show pending mempool transactions which contribute to awaiting Service Nodes: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-onion-blockchain-explorer/pull/3

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.

Work on Loki Messenger for Android can be found in these repositories: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android-core/commits/master, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-android/commits/master.
Work on Loki Messenger for iOS can be found here: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/commits/dev, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios-pods/commits/master.

Thanks,  

Kee

Attention $LOKI Miners!!

Please update your xmrig to the 2.99.1 release. There is an issue in 2.99.0 that causes it to not properly reinitialise when the RandomX seed hash changes - which happens roughly every 3 days.

https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig/releases/tag/v2.99.1-beta