Monero Dev Activity Report - Week 14 2025: 36 PRs, 13 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 (36, 14:3:19)

Opened (14)

monero-project/monero:

• #9877¹ blockchain_db: fix remove_block daemon database pending review (0xFFFC0000)
• #9879² epee: remove reg_exp_definer.h cleanup pending review (jeffro256)
• #9881³ epee: syncobj: replace shims with Boost classes cleanup epee pending review (jeffro256)
• #9883⁴ functional_tests: test PR #9863 pending review tests (jeffro256)
• #9884⁵ cryptonote_basic: is_coinbase() take prefix (jeffro256)
• #9882⁶ unit_tests: add wallet_scanning pending review tests (jeffro256)
• #9888⁷ ci: run brew update [0.18] ci (tobtoht)
• #9889⁸ ci: run brew update ci (tobtoht)
• #9886⁹ Fix cmake usage in FetchContent and ExternalProject build system pending review (vtnerd)
• #9887¹⁰ Fix cmake usage in FetchContent and ExternalProject [0.18] build system pending review (vtnerd)
• #9891¹¹ guix: remove –user option build system (tobtoht)

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #4429¹² [WIP] Lint js and qml (b4n6-b4n6)

monero-project/monero-site:

• #2458¹³ chore: add a license badge and link to it (bravesasha)
• #2468¹⁴ _i18n/library: refactor mastering monero (plowsof)

Closed (3)

monero-project/monero:

• #9868¹⁵ wallet: Remove TransactionInfoImpl and TransactionHistoryImpl pending review wallet (Tzadiko)

monero-project/monero-gui :

• #4425¹⁶ [Libwalletqt] TransactionHistory adjustment for Monero Issue 9866 (Tzadiko)

monero-project/monero-site:

• #2457¹⁷ docs: update license (bravesasha)

Merged (19)

monero-project/monero:

• #9880¹⁸ build: set cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.5) consistently [release-v0.18] build system (MrCyjaneK)

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #4427¹⁹ workflows: fix CI bundle build and name spelling (selsta)
• #4426²⁰ build: prepare v0.18.4.0 (selsta)
• #4428²¹ Dockerfile: update Linux base image to 18.04 (selsta)
• #4418²² Remove unused JS variables (b4n6-b4n6)

monero-project/monero-site:

• #2451²³ docs: edited the shield and added a link to it (bravesasha)
• #2367²⁴ user-guides: don’t recommend remote nodes (nahuhh)
• #2448²⁵ Create “OSPEAD - Optimal Ring Signature Research” blog post blog (Rucknium)
• #2463²⁶ FCMP++ contest announcement blog (j-berman)
• #2444²⁷ Update LICENSE (maximevtush)
• #2447²⁸ faq: add FCMP video (plowsof)
• #2461²⁹ Downloads: add trezor safe 5 hww (plowsof)
• #2464³⁰ Downloads: Monero.com wallet supports ledger (plowsof)
• #2466³¹ Downloads: remove blockchain tab from mobile view (plowsof)
• #2467³² Downloads: monerujo url .io -> .app (plowsof)
• #2313³³ resources/moneropedia: randomx/tailemission/node videos in layout (plowsof)
• #2470³⁴ Release CLI and GUI v0.18.4.0 (binaryFate)
• #2471³⁵ Update latest blog posts April 5th (binaryFate)
• #2469³⁶ blog: add v0.18.4.0 release notes (selsta)

2 - ISSUES (13, 9:4)

Opened (9)

monero-project/monero:

• #9878³⁷ monero-wallet-cli should respect XDG Base Directory Specification (leliel-git)
• #9890³⁸ Error while synchronizing stagenet (ruben2k1)
• #9885³⁹ Use of external caches break guix buildbuild system (lobster-kerouac)

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #4431⁴⁰ GUI shows
  when multiple transfers are made in the To field. (Tzadiko)
• #4432⁴¹ Error while synchronizing stagenet (ruben2k1)
• #4430⁴² Stuck on “Opening wallet…” when using hardware wallet with Trezor Safe 3 in Ubuntu 24 (mrbeast87)

monero-project/monero-site:

• #2460⁴³ Developer Guides: Remove monerorpc guides (jermanuts)
• #2459⁴⁴ Developer Guides: Replace Monerodocs.org with official guides (jermanuts)
• #2462⁴⁵ Downloads: List alternative offline tx signing methods (plowsof)

Closed (4)

monero-project/monero:

• #9758⁴⁶ v0.18.4.0 release to-do list (selsta)

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #4423⁴⁷ how to connect with tor? (dzwdev)

monero-project/monero-site:

• #2456⁴⁸ Please add Trezor Safe 5 in “ https://www.getmonero.org/downloads/ “ page. ( Monero software has already supported for Trezor Safe 5. ) (User00123)
• #2465⁴⁹ rename blogs before deployment (plowsof)

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