Lokinet v0.9.11

This minor update to Lokinet fixes a few issues introduced in the 0.9.10 release.

For service nodes, this releases is recommended as part of regular upgrades, but is not required.

All platforms

• Fixed missing option names in the default config file generated in 0.9.10 (#2055).
• The GUI minimum height is now reduced to work better on lower resolution screens (#2065).
• An(other) obsolete bootstrap file is now recognized and skipped if present when loading (#2066).

Windows

• Fixed a rare bug that could cause all DNS lookups (not just lokinet) to start working whenever Lokinet is activate (#2076).

Service nodes

• We now output a much more informative error on startup if the required lokid RPC setting is missing from the config (#2055).

(Edit: added the lokinet source tarball to the download list and re-signed)

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Lokinet v0.9.10

Lokinet 0.9.10

This is a major upgrade for Lokinet clients that brings a brand new GUI with many improvements, plenty of client-side fixes and upgrades, a new more reliable network handling code for Windows, and a completely overhauled macOS release (which has been absent for the past several releases).

For service nodes, this releases is recommended as part of regular upgrades, but is not required.

All platforms

• We now include the lokinet bootstrap file in the executable itself rather than needing to bundle or download it separately. This is now the default if no bootstrap file is specifically configured.
• Refactored log subsystem that produces better, cleaner log output.
• logs can now be sent to a subscriber via our zmq rpc, which is used by the new GUI to show log output.

All clients

• New GUI written in electron.
• Large refactor of DNS subsystem internals

Windows client

• We now use wintun instead of the old OpenVPN tun/tap driver for the low-level virtual lokinet network. Wintun is more reliable and better maintained.
• We now use windirect to properly intercept and handle system DNS requests, which more robustly captures DNS traffic and should prevent DNS leaks that have previously happened sometimes in Windows.
• Fix various crashes that could occur on startup or shutdown.

MacOS client

• Lokinet now supports macOS again. (This is our first macOS release in quite a while, so if things aren't working quite right, please report the issues!)
• We had previously stopped supporting it because our workaround to run on macOS stopped working: this new release uses proper Apple-sanctioned interfaces to run as a VPN system extension.
• Because it is now registered as a VPN, you can start/stop lokinet from the macOS Network Settings page; the GUI still works to control/monitor Lokinet, but doesn't have to be running in order for Lokinet to be active.
• Unfortunately, Apple does not allow unsigned (or self-signed) code to run as a system extension, which means you cannot compile for yourself on macOS (unless you have your own, paid-for developer account). We wish this wasn't the case, but if this matters to you then macOS is the wrong platform for you.

Linux client

• Lokinet DNS resolver can now bind to multiple UDP addresses to handle queries.
• By default Lokinet DNS still binds to 127.3.2.1:53, but not also listens on random high port on 127.0.0.1 for better compatibility with systemd-networkd.
• added a new option (disabled by default) to enable raw DNS packet interception on on the lokinet vpn interface for advanced network configurations.

Service-node changes

• Add a log statement about our own .snode address on startup
• Overhaul how listen IPs/ports are specified in the [bind] section of the config. The old syntax was confusing. Most common setups will continue to work just fine, but some exotic configurations on systems with multiple IP addresses may need the config fixed (if this is necessary, lokinet will immediately fail at startup with a suitable error message in the logs).
• Revise how we handle service node lists after startup and registration activation, which should address reported issues about lokinet needing a restart after being staked.
• Lokinet now recognizes (and ignores) an old, obsolete bootstrap file that might be present on very old installations (installed around 2 years ago or more). This obsolete file could prevent a router that goes offline for several days from coming back online, because it would lose any way to connect to existing nodes. If we encounter such a file we now just ignore it, and use the built-in default fallback.

Build system

• Remove some dead code
• Simplify handling of libraries that can either be built as a submodule or used as a system library.
• Make lokinet version tag overrideable via -DLOKINET_VERSIONTAG (this has been patched into the deb builds for a very long time; this moves that patch into the main code to make it easier for other packaging systems that might want to use it).
• Bump bundled openssl version for static builds to the latest 3.x release (instead of 1.1.x).
• Removed "shell hooks" option (the code wasn't desirable and has been long-gone).

Miscellaneous

• Restructure the repository docs directory
• Add demo keygen script for .loki keys
• Refactor network utils subsystem, add mock and unit tests for testing if auto detection of network addresses works
• Remove invalid nodedb entries on startup

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lokinet v0.9.9

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= lokinet v0.9.9 (gluten free edition)

Service node only release for hf 19,
this release is manditory for all service nodes.

= service node changes

* bind section no longer allows 0.0.0.0 for inbound links, use your interface name and set public-ip and public-port in router section, boxes with multiple public addresses on one interface required this change be done.
  if 0.0.0.0 is used and lokinet can infer a public ip, it will be used, otherwise it will error and need to be reconfigured with the proper entries in router section.
* bugfix in link layer state machine that should fix inbound sessions becoming in a permanently stuck state
* systemd status line reports more useful info like block hieght and gossip times.
* bugfixes regarding gossping and decommissions related to lokinet reachability
* idempotent queue flushing, all path builds and transit traffic should be butter smooth as a result.

= client side (non service node) changes

== windows

windows now has a new gui, dns leaks but ipv6 leak should be plugged.
expect remaining fixes in 0.9.10 tag

== config options

network section

* exit-node / exit-auth now allow multiple entries , exit nodes will be striped randomly for each range they are mapped to
* autorouting , turn route poker on and off
* blackhole-routes , turn off route poker's ipv4 / ipv6 route blackholing. useful for omitting non routable ranges like 200::/7 and fc00::/7 from route poker
* auth-file / auth-file-type , enable endpoint auth using hashed or plaintext passwords (hashed by default)
* auth-static , add static plaintext auth codes via config entry

dns section

* uptream will now default to 9.9.9.10

== cli

* removed -b flag, it did not do anything anyways.
* removed -v / --verbose flag, use config option in logging section, level = debug

== docs

* generate internal docs with doxygen
* remove outdated content, replace with placeholders

== build system

* new helper script: contrib/cross.sh for cross compiling from linux.
* macos build process redone in full, still not done yet.

=== new cmake options

* -DBUILD_DAEMON for toggling building of lokinet daemon, used only on apple platforms.
* -DWITH_BOOTSTRAP for toggling building of lokinet-bootstrap tool

== internals

* removed large amounts of dead code
* use oxenc for serializion insted of oxenmq
* split up cpack nsis commands into external files
* split up android build process into configure and build to fully parallize builds.
* embedded lokinet apis frozen.
* embedded lokinet internals finished.
* demacroize the code
* disable usage of ipv6 upstream dns in libunbound
* propagate link layer priority to link layer for proper resend prioritization

= release binaries

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lokinet v0.9.8

v0.9.8

windows is broken in this tag this release is for linux only (both clients and service nodes)

• fix long uptime cpu usage leak on service nodes
• fix excessive network jitter
• fix issue with service node testing algorithm
• redo ci pipeline docker images

v0.9.7

lokinet v0.9.7

bugfix release for clients.

client side fixes:

• work around volatile network path build success rate, prevent clients from becoming stuck in an edge case state from which it used to not recover from.
• bundle bootstrap.signed by default instead of requiring it be fetched externally
• logging subsystem refactor to use source_location
• fix issue with older systemd-resolved not being able to set dns
• lokinet will now load config files in lexigraphical order
• remove json logger

ci pipeline updates:

• basically totally redo the ci pipeline docker stuff

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lokinet v0.9.6

lokinet v0.9.6

bugfix release for service nodes

put release notes here

v0.9.5

Lokinet 0.9.5

This update fixes a few things in lokinet found since 0.9.4, most notably making peer testing more reliable (0.9.4 had an issue where a temporarily failing node could get stuck in failed status), as well as many miscellaneous updates to the lokinetmon tool for (command-line) monitoring of a running lokinet.

This release also uses jemalloc by default (and in the debian/ubuntu packages) to noticeably reduce memory usage, particularly after lokinet has been running for a few days.

Note that upgrading to this release is required for Service Nodes, along with oxen-core 9.2.0 and oxen-storage-server 2.2.0. Upgrade enforcement (i.e. decommissions and/or deregistrations) will begin at block 839009 (due 13 July, 23:00 UTC).

Note that we are no longer uploading static linux builds to github releases as these builds are generally a worse experience and harder to use (due to the permissions lokinet requires) compared to running lokinet as a proper system service as you get with the debian/ubuntu packages. If you still need static Linux builds you can get them from our CI build repository at https://oxen.rocks/oxen-io/lokinet, but we'd encourage you to use a proper package system or build lokinet yourself.

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lokinet v0.9.4

lokinet 0.9.4

this release is a mandatory upgrade for service nodes, highly recommended for clients.

this release will have an accompanying release of storage server and oxend.

critical bug fixes (service nodes and clients)

• resolve inter node communication bug where multiple parallel outbound session attempts were being sent to the same remote udp endpoint causing a state race condition where establishing a new outbound session times out.

new client features

• new config option [network]:persist-addrmap-file to persist ephemeral ip mappings for inbound flows so that between restarts ip addresses dont remap for active flows, this allows tcp connections to stick between restarts.
• new config option [dns]:add-hosts to add a dns hosts file by path for client side dns filtration, i.e. adblock and such.
• allow non-standard dns port in upstream dns

client side updates

• add upper bound on parallel ONS lookups per name
• refactor some outbound snapp flow code to make it functional, total rewrite of that layer will happen soon after tag (probably).
• redo snapp flow handover logic

build system / ci

• static deps now are built in parallel
• removed old android cruft, replaced gradle build system with ./contrib/android.sh
• added flutter to android ci docker image, removed gradle from android docker ci image
• fixed typo in debian-stable ci docker image
• package jni libs in android ci pipeline
• package lokinet-bootstrap binary instead of the shell script in ci pipeline

android

• add DumpStatus native method to network.loki.lokinet.LokinetDaemon for state introspection

misc / utils

• added contrib/bencode-dump.py script for printing out bencoded files
• lokinetmon updates to match changes in RPC (removal of badIntros field)
• updates to readme.md about building from source
• we will no longer provide static linux binaries in releases, users of oxen-rancher (the only users that should even care about these to begin with) should use CI builds from the stable branch

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lokinet v0.9.3

lokinet v0.9.3

v0.9.3 contains regression fixes for relays and clients, upgrade is either required or highly recommended.

relay side changes

• properly update service node list periodically (fixes the network wide regression that makes lokinet "not work good")
• add lokinet reachability testing and reporting to be enforced some time in the possibly near future (pending on oxend release)
• track decommissioned service nodes as well as active service nodes, allow sessions to decommissioned service nodes but not paths, keep any existing paths open until they are dead
• mitigate race condition on handling LinkRelayStatus Message that would not properly propagate a failure to the previous hop

client side changes

• re-enable multithreading on clients (but not service nodes)
• better handling of premature failures from outbound lookups so that dns fails happen only when a total fail happen. partial fails do not propagate a fail right away
• better path handover logic
• lower jitter from lack of a client side flush when there is low packet rate
• path latency measurement FEC
• path latency now uses the mean of the last N samples instead of the last measurement
• made client side profiling super aggressive in order to prune bad/dead/stale/unreachable relays faster. will most likely result in a sharp decrease in known nodes as the dead ones are pruned
• client side profiling decays every 30 seconds instead of every 30 minutes to speed up profiling redemption (marking possibly bad routers as good again)
• introsets are published via near routers instead of just random ones
• clients will now only look up outbound snapp convotags, inbound snapp convotags no longer "lookup and connect back" on failure to get an active convotag
• reduce ONS endpoint diversity to accomidate low end devices that don't build paths as fast, this way looking up things like exit.loki happen faster
• properly reset invalid/non-existent convotags in every failure case we can

liblokinet changes

• fix windows build so that it (probably) produces a proper dll
• export all functions properly on windows (probably)

misc changes

• added new mode to lokinetmon for viewing information about introsets and flows for clients (introset inspector mode)
• lokinetmon now uses argparse and has 2 flags: --url to set the rpc url and --introset to enter introset inspector mode
• decrease event loop tick interval from 100ms to 250ms to reduce log spam

Hashes

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lokinet v0.9.2 (A series of tubes)

lokinet v0.9.2