15 Jan 2023 [dev]

Monero Dev Activity Report - Week 2 2023: 43 PRs, 9 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 (43, 5:3:35)

Opened (5)

monero-project/monero:

#8704¹ Output selection speedup for large amounts of outputs (moneromooo-monero)
#8705² RandomX: print VM allocation warnings only once (SChernykh)
#8706³ RandomX: print VM allocation warnings only once (SChernykh)
#8707⁴ verRctNonSemanticsSimpleCached: fix fragility (jeffro256)
#8709⁵ Fix #8708 (ovhpse)

monero-project/monero-gui: none

monero-project/monero-site: none

Closed (3)

monero-project/monero: none

monero-project/monero-gui:

#4098⁶ Replace qt5-default with qtchooser, qt5-qmake and qtbase5-dev-tools (brg2)
#4099⁷ Replace qt5-default with qtchooser, qt5-qmake and qtbase5-dev-tools (brg2)

monero-project/monero-site:

#1343⁸ Add additional unlock_time details to Moneropedia (SamsungGalaxyPlayer)

Merged (35)

monero-project/monero:

#8640⁹ p2p: fix back ping to discover healthy peers to connect to (j-berman)
#8641¹⁰ p2p: fix back ping to discover healthy peers to connect to [release] (j-berman)
#8644¹¹ p2p: fix exclusive node DNS resolution for certain hosts [release] (jeffro256)
#8645¹² gpg_keys: bump my key validity by another two years (moneromooo-monero)
#8651¹³ Fix console output/compile instructions on OpenBSD (offshoremonero)
#8671¹⁴ update readme with v0.18.1.2 version number (Gingeropolous)
#8677¹⁵ Refactored rx-slow-hash.c to make fast PoW verification possible (SChernykh)
#8678¹⁶ Refactored rx-slow-hash.c to make fast PoW verification possible [release-v0.18] (SChernykh)
#8676¹⁷ RingCT cache (huge block propagation speedup) [release-v0.18] (SChernykh)
#8653¹⁸ workflows: set a public DNS when doing tests (selsta)
#8654¹⁹ workflows: set a public DNS when doing tests [release-v0.18] (selsta)
#8682²⁰ common: add missing includes (selsta)
#8683²¹ common: add missing includes [release-v0.18] (selsta)
#8632²² epee: remove dead HTTP code (jeffro256)
#8686²³ common: move boost_serialization_helper.h out and cleanup includes (jeffro256)
#8649²⁴ DNSResolver: fix not handling hostnames without dot characters [release] (jeffro256)
#8648²⁵ DNSResolver: fix not handling hostnames without dot characters (jeffro256)
#8643²⁶ p2p: fix exclusive node DNS resolution for certain hosts (jeffro256)
#8663²⁷ [seraphis] crypto: miscellaneous updates (UkoeHB)
#8675²⁸ RingCT cache (huge block propagation speedup) (SChernykh)

monero-project/monero-gui:

#4088²⁹ open-wallet: set network type when using file browser (plowsof)
#4091³⁰ Override desktop theming (devhyper)
#4095³¹ p2pool: update to v2.7 (SChernykh)
#4079³² workflows: remove unnecessary dependency (selsta)
#4082³³ README: add unbound for Windows (selsta)
#4085³⁴ main: skip proxy when setting localhost remote node (selsta)

monero-project/monero-site:

#2076³⁵ #1343 moneropedia update unlocktime (plowsof)
#2085³⁶ Fix: typos in README.md (omahs)
#2074³⁷ #1858 2/3 3/3 moneropedia sidechain / p2pool (plowsof)
#2101³⁸ update remote_node guide to include direct monero.fail (Gingeropolous)
#2109³⁹ user-guides: add seed offset to cli account restore (plowsof)
#2120⁴⁰ mrl: replace link to cryptonote whitepaper to local pdf (erciccione)
#2008⁴¹ Revert “Workflows: userguide index alphabetic test” (erciccione)
#2115⁴² footer: i18n for onion link text (erciccione)
#2116⁴³ gems: update dependencies (erciccione)

2 - ISSUES (9, 3:6)

Opened (3)

monero-project/monero:

#8708⁴⁴ Exception: boost::wrapexcept<boost::system::system_error> when using Tor + ipv6 (ovhpse)
#8710⁴⁵ Provide weight in describe_transfer rpc call (woodser)

monero-project/monero-gui:

#4100⁴⁶ Ubuntu and Windows actions not completing (brg2)

monero-project/monero-site: none

Closed (6)

monero-project/monero:

#8633⁴⁷ using –add-exclusive-node foo:28080 errors with: Failed to parse or resolve address from string: foo:28080 (euri10)
#8695⁴⁸ monero-0.18.1.2/src/common/threadpool.h:96:10: error: ‘deque’ in namespace ‘std’ does not name a template type (l29ah)

monero-project/monero-gui:

#4027⁴⁹ Allow local monerod server when using Socks5 proxy (zquestz)
#4069⁵⁰ [UX] If User tries to open a stagenet wallet, let them (elibroftw)
#3938⁵¹ Drop-down menus not opening on Manjaro (KDE) (SandaruKasa)

monero-project/monero-site:

#918⁵² “Restoring your Monero Wallet” guide does not address the CLI prompt for a seed offset (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