Monero Dev Activity Report - Week 1 2025: 18 PRs, 4 Issues

This weekly report aims to provide a big picture view of Monero development activity, increase community support for existing devs and, hopefully, encourage new contributions.

1 - PRs (18, 17:1:0)

Opened (17)

monero-project/monero:

• #9667¹ depends: freebsd_base: update to 13.4 (tobtoht)
• #9668² build: make libsodium an optional build dependency (tobtoht)
• #9670³ build: remove libtool (tobtoht)
• #9664⁴ Check for windows NTFS compression on monerod startup (fixes #9617) (eversinc33)
• #9674⁵ depends: remove archiver flags (tobtoht)
• #9673⁶ depends: explicitely set C/CXX standard for all packages (tobtoht)
• #9672⁷ depends: openssl: update to 3.4.0 (tobtoht)
• #9671⁸ depends: always pass –with-pic to autoconf builds (tobtoht)
• #9666⁹ copyright: bump to 2025 (plowsof)
• #9679¹⁰ ci: improve job naming (tobtoht)
• #9680¹¹ ci: add arch linux build (tobtoht)
• #9675¹² depends: remove eudev (tobtoht)
• #9676¹³ depends: zeromq: build with cmake (tobtoht)
• #9677¹⁴ depends: add CMAKE_SYSTEM_VERSION to toolchain file, set minimum Windows version (tobtoht)
• #9681¹⁵ depends: remove expat (tobtoht)
• #9663¹⁶ Fix get_database_size on Windows (iamamyth)

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #4390¹⁷ p2pool: update to v4.3 (SChernykh)

monero-project/monero-site: none

Closed (1)

monero-project/monero: none

monero-project/monero-gui :

• #4370¹⁸ p2pool: update to v4.2 (SChernykh)

monero-project/monero-site: none

Merged (0)

monero-project/monero: none

monero-project/monero-gui: none

monero-project/monero-site: none

2 - ISSUES (4, 3:1)

Opened (3)

monero-project/monero:

• #9665¹⁹ [Bug] monerod on win does not load bitmonero.conf from default data dir without setting –config-file (5andr0)
• #9678²⁰ v0.18.3.4 FTBFS: Arch Linux (Dormouse665)
• #9669²¹ Build System Maintenance (tobtoht)

monero-project/monero-gui: none

monero-project/monero-site: none

Closed (1)

monero-project/monero:

• #9662²² auto miner do nothing on Alpine Linux - “couldn’t query power status from /sys/class/power_supply” (tankf33der)

monero-project/monero-gui: none

monero-project/monero-site: none

That’s it for this week’s dev activity report. I will try and publish one every Sunday. Let me know if I missed anything or if you want to see any other statistics/repos included in future reports. Feedback/edits: @ /about.

Previous reports are listed in the [dev] section.

-3RA