Monero Dev Activity Report - Week 15 2025: 15 PRs, 8 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 (15, 11:1:3)

Opened (11)

monero-project/monero:

• #9898¹ Move wallet2_api definitions into separate cpp (vtnerd)
• #9896² guix: ask for confirmation before deleting files (tobtoht)
• #9895³ fix inconsistent casing in Dockerfile (menaceone)
• #9893⁴ guix: unset HOST env variable (tobtoht)
• #9892⁵ guix: drop support for i686-linux-gnu (tobtoht)
• #9902⁶ Daemon RPC: high_height_ok req boolean field /getblocks.bin [v0.18] (j-berman)
• #9903⁷ Daemon RPC: /getblocks.bin return chain’s top_block_hash in resp [v0.18] (j-berman)
• #9904⁸ chore: fix some typos (tsinghuacoder)
• #9901⁹ Daemon RPC: add max_block_count field to /getblocks.bin [v0.18] (j-berman)
• #9899¹⁰ epee: better scope leaver (jeffro256)

monero-project/monero-gui: none

monero-project/monero-site:

• #2472¹¹ contributing: section anchors + href titles (plowsof)

Closed (1)

monero-project/monero:

• #9756¹² Multiple-URI support in parse_uri and make_uri (jsyk57)

monero-project/monero-gui : none

monero-project/monero-site: none

Merged (3)

monero-project/monero:

• #9891¹³ guix: remove –user option (tobtoht)

monero-project/monero-gui: none

monero-project/monero-site:

• #2424¹⁴ downloads: link to hangouts for help/support (HardenedSteel)
• #2473¹⁵ blog: update v0.18.4.0 release notes (selsta)

2 - ISSUES (8, 3:5)

Opened (3)

monero-project/monero:

• #9894¹⁶ Docker warning “FromAsCasing” (menaceone)
• #9897¹⁷ Starting monerod with block-sync-size >~ 100 prevents daemon to sync (kuchta)
• #9900¹⁸ guix: non-deterministic build failures (tobtoht)

monero-project/monero-gui: none

monero-project/monero-site: none

Closed (5)

monero-project/monero:

• #9885¹⁹ Use of external caches break guix build (lobster-kerouac)
• #9890²⁰ Error while synchronizing stagenet (ruben2k1)
• #9678²¹ v0.18.3.4 FTBFS: Arch Linux (Dormouse665)

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #4432²² Error while synchronizing stagenet (ruben2k1)

monero-project/monero-site:

• #2286²³ Donate QR code not scan-able (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.

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-3RA