Monero Dev Activity Report - Week 19 2022: 27 PRs, 7 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 (27, 11:1:15)

Opened (11)

monero-project/monero:

• #8322¹ Update sha256sum code to comply with OpenSSL 3.0 (jeffro256)
• #8323² DOCS: Rework Portable storage format example (jeffro256)
• #8324³ p2p: Don’t send peer list larger than max allowed (j-berman)
• #8325⁴ Ignore gitian docker build files (jeffro256)
• #8326⁵ tx pool: fix backoff delay logic when re-relaying txs (j-berman)
• #8328⁶ disable multisig by default (moneromooo-monero)
• #8329⁷ multisig: force update option for key exchange (UkoeHB)
• #8330⁸ p2p: don’t exclusively drop tor/i2p outgoing cxns in idle loop (j-berman)
• #8331⁹ wallet2: fix spurious reorg detection with untrusted nodes (moneromooo-monero)

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #3917¹⁰ p2pool: Only kill p2pool if we started it (ComputeryPony)
• #3920¹¹ docker: qt 5.15.4 (selsta)

Closed (1)

monero-project/monero: none

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #3922¹² docker: Upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04 + add support for static Linux arm64 builds (zer0conf)

Merged (15)

monero-project/monero: none

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #8235¹³ CMake: Add missing BUILD_SHARED_LIBS option (mj-xmr)
• #8281¹⁴ readme: arch/fedora deps + small fixes (hinto-janaiyo)
• #8293¹⁵ BP+ optimization save one inversion in prover, use sc_muladd (ph4r05)
• #8302¹⁶ Update copyright to 2022 for Hardfork files (mj-xmr)
• #8321¹⁷ Set hf v15 testnet fork heights (j-berman)
• #8301¹⁸ Doxygen: Hide anonymous namespaces from documentation (jeffro256)
• #8279¹⁹ EPEE: Remove gzip_encoding.h (jeffro256)
• #8278²⁰ EPEE: Remove hmac-md5 (jeffro256)
• #8226²¹ Fix typo: SERIALIZE_TYPE_DUOBLE (jeffro256)
• #8277²² Preserve commitment format inside transactions (kayabaNerve)
• #8280²³ DOCS: Add documentation for EPEE Portable Storage (jeffro256)
• #8304²⁴ More tests for view tags (SChernykh)
• #8262²⁵ Optimized keccak implementation (SChernykh)
• #8220²⁶ multisig: add post-kex verification round (UkoeHB)
• #8300²⁷ Change “Github” to “GitHub” (zer-far)

2 - ISSUES (7, 5:2)

Opened (5)

monero-project/monero:

• #8320²⁸ Compiler warnings: writing 1 byte into a region of size 0 (jeffro256)
• #8327²⁹ Monero wallet RPC - repetitive “syncing” and “Error starting server: Failed to bind IPv4” (nixt7)
• #8332³⁰ Tweaks for building on M1 Mac with Homebrew (hyc)

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #3919³¹ No auto start mining option (Tembelweed)
• #3921³² screen/mouse instability (dchmelik)

Closed (2)

monero-project/monero: none

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #3918³³ Password prompt (Tembelweed)
• #3923³⁴ [Gentoo] - Build succeeds but program launch fails with missing module (Slips-PC)

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