After the release of the Trustly Tyr 5.1.1 Binaries, all service nodes, exchanges and mining pools need to be updated before block height 385,824. Roughly 80% of the Service Nodes have already upgraded, so please make sure you do as well in the next week in order to remain on the correct chain.
Patch Notes For The New Update
When it comes to regular updates, this is a big one. The developers have made major changes to the core, Lokinet, their Loki Messenger, storage server and have been very active on GitHub. We would like to make a list of the changes, which will be listed according to their Pull Request (PR). If you would like to know more about them, you can check out the Loki Project Pulls List and find them by their PR number.
Core Changes
- PR #890 – Simplified get_transfers and fix segfault
- PR #880 – RPC updates for ed/x25519 keys
- PR #889 – Changes and fixes to the Ubuntu Xenial build
- PR #887 – Fixes for Travis CI/build
- PR #886 – Fix version printing in info messages
- PR #882 – Maximum uptime credit increased to 48 hours
- PR #881 – New uptime proof versioning enforced
- PR #879 – Wording on operator fee prompt during setup fixed
- PR #877 – Turn staking requirement into integer math variant
- PR #874 – Uptime Proof will not be sent until LokiID receives information from Storage Server
- PR #873 – Various Upstream RandomX simplifications and fixes
- PR #872 – Bakports from quorumnet branch for 5.x version
Lokinet Updates
A lot of performance improvements and changes for Lokinet were merged. These will allow better performance scaling, especially on multi-core machines. The developers advise that work on a GUI for Lokinet continues, so desktop users can connect and view their connection stats easily. The Lokinet internals needs to be restructured in order to allow the Lokinet daemon to be securely controlled by the GUI. The end-goal is for the interface to be used in both the GUI and CLI tools, allowing CLI users to control parts of Lokinet without having to edit config files.
Other Pull Request Activity
Here, we would like to list some of the other PR activities that have been carried out on GitHub by the team.
- PR #850 – Huge performance improvements, such as multithreaded cryptography, public key pinning and multi-acknowledgment commands. This Pull Request is a large one and will make 0.6.x lokinet connections incompatible with 0.5.x ones.
- PR #861 – Additional multithreaded performance upgrades
- PR #856 – cmake is reorganized to be more efficient in splitting cmake scripts into multiple directories, as well as rename lokinet-rcutil to lokinetctl
- PR #857 – You can now retrieve own address via lokinetctl
- PR #863 – Updates and fixes in order to support building on Ubuntu 16.04
- PR #862 – Info on number of known nodes can be exported via rpc
- PR# 859 – Windows build fixes along with updates allowing Windows installer to include required utilities
- PR #860 – Improved code documentation
Loki Messenger and Other Changes
Here we will list changes that were applied to the different versions of the Loki Messenger, as well as any remaining updates. You can find the Pull Requests for the messenger iOS version and Android version.
- Loki Storage Server Version 1.0.7 is now released
- Loki Messenger for Desktop updates
- PR #559 – While detecting mentions, check against null message body
- PR #557 – Custom Public Chat servers are now working and can be joined
- PR #558 – Fixes to prevent chat members public keys from overflowing
- Loki Messenger for Android/iOS changes
- PR #56 (iOS) and #35 (Android) – Mentions Version 1
- PR #57 (iOS) and #33 (Android) – Custom Public Chat servers are now accessible
About The Loki Project
We have been talking about all of the new updates for the Loki network, so we would like to also give a short overview of the project itself. Loki is a privacy-oriented cryptocurrency that allows users to make private transactions and communicate privately over the internet. It is made possible thanks to the use of blockchain technology, allowing Loki to create new secure and anonymous methods of interacting with the internet. These include the building of privacy-centric applications and platforms, such as messaging services, community forums, online marketplaces and social media platforms.
