19 Mar 2023 [dev]

Monero Dev Activity Report - Week 11 2023: 32 PRs, 15 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 (32, 11:2:19)

Opened (11)

monero-project/monero:

#8774¹ Prevent tx broadcasts from using Tor circuit twice (53a45b2637452980)
#8778² [WIP] bump OSX SDK, clang (ph4r05)
#8780³ rpc: give reason when sending non-hex raw tx (jeffro256)
#8785⁴ build: prepare v0.18.2.1 (selsta)
#8786⁵ http_client: reduce number of packets sent for small bodies (jeffro256)
#8787⁶ p2p: avoid spam blocking ipv4 addresses in a blocked subnet [release-v0.18] (selsta)
#8788⁷ wallet2: fix outdated wallet check (moneromooo-monero)
#8789⁸ epee: remove dead code in net_helper (jeffro256)

monero-project/monero-gui:

#4130⁹ wizard: add Ledger Stax (selsta)
#4133¹⁰ p2pool: update to v3.1 (SChernykh)

monero-project/monero-site:

#2139¹¹ workflows: update hashes.yml (plowsof)

Closed (2)

monero-project/monero:

#8637¹² http_client: Add support for virtual servers (jeffro256)
#8638¹³ http_client: Add support for virtual servers [release] (jeffro256)

monero-project/monero-gui: none

monero-project/monero-site: none

Merged (19)

monero-project/monero:

#8076¹⁴ wallet2, RPC: Optimize RPC calls for periodic refresh from 3 down to 1 call (rbrunner7)
#8707¹⁵ verRctNonSemanticsSimpleCached: fix fragility (jeffro256)
#8733¹⁶ Add a size limit for tx_extra in tx pool (tevador)
#8743¹⁷ depends: remove unused packages (tobtoht)
#8745¹⁸ workflows: update dependencies to fix warnings (selsta)
#8746¹⁹ workflows: update dependencies to fix warnings [release-v0.18] (selsta)
#8775²⁰ device: Add ledger Stax device id to device detection (fbeutin-ledger)
#8779²¹ device: Add ledger Stax device id to device detection [release-v0.18] (selsta)
#8781²² verRctNonSemanticsSimpleCached: fix fragility [release] (jeffro256)
#8784²³ Add a size limit for tx_extra in tx pool [release-v0.18] (selsta)

monero-project/monero-gui: none

monero-project/monero-site:

#1951²⁴ user-guides: fix toc for verification guide (selsta)
#2057²⁵ correct text of global variable ‘outdated’ (jorgesumle)
#2125²⁶ tags: add missing for seraphis blog (plowsof)
#2126²⁷ Update docs (plowsof)
#2127²⁸ accepting: fix payment gateways link (plowsof)
#2128²⁹ merchants: remove morphtoken (plowsof)
#2137³⁰ downloads: update Trezor link (rating89us)
#2136³¹ moneropedia: remove entry canonically unique host (erciccione)
#2129³² remove merchants.yml file (HardenedSteel)

2 - ISSUES (15, 3:12)

Opened (3)

monero-project/monero:

#8776³³ monero-wallet-rpc does not reliably sync if started without –daemon-address (woodser)

monero-project/monero-gui:

#4129³⁴ Outdated Readme Copy Right (itsMikeLowrey)

monero-project/monero-site:

#2140³⁵ Consider switching from Jekyll to Hugo (erciccione)

Closed (12)

monero-project/monero:

#8777³⁶ About the Use of Monero Coin Encryption Protocol, CryptoNote2 and RingCT3 (19231224lhr)
#8783³⁷ Any beginner friendly good first issue? (evil-user)
#8782³⁸ Resync Required If Processed Killed Due to OOM? (devatgo)

monero-project/monero-gui:

#4128³⁹ Lost and not receiving funds (mlpotesak)
#4131⁴⁰ Resync Required If Processed Killed Due to OOM? (devatgo)
#4132⁴¹ any good first issues (evil-user)

monero-project/monero-site:

#2124⁴² bug when displaying tags on blog posts (erciccione)
#2103⁴³ devguides: wallet-rpc query_key should list “spend_key” as a key_type value (dimalinux)
#2110⁴⁴ user-guides: generate_from_keys broken example (plowsof)
#2086⁴⁵ Merchants page: payment-gateways anchor none existent (plowsof)
#2099⁴⁶ swappers: MorphToken service not available (plowsof)
#1308⁴⁷ Delete or simplify Moneropedia entry ‘Canonically unique host’ (erciccione)

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