12 Jan 2025 [dev]

Monero Dev Activity Report - Week 2 2025: 18 PRs, 6 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 (18, 12:0:6)

Opened (12)

monero-project/monero:

#9683¹ Failed to build for FreeBSD using GCC (Low-power)
#9687² depends: boost: update to 1.66.0 [RELEASE] (tobtoht)
#9685³ miniupnpc: fix build with gcc 14 [RELEASE] (tobtoht)
#9686⁴ miniupnpc: fix build with gcc 14 (tobtoht)
#9688⁵ Revert “blockchain: detect and log bad difficulty calculations” (selsta)
#9689⁶ Revert “blockchain: detect and log bad difficulty calculations” [release-v0.18] (selsta)
#9690⁷ build: auto-set GitHub runner make job count (iamamyth)
#9692⁸ crypto: make CRYPTO_DEFINE_HASH_FUNCTIONS adhere strict aliasing [RELEASE] (jeffro256)
#9693⁹ common: Remove resolved FIXME in pod-class.h (iamamyth)
#9691¹⁰ crypto: make CRYPTO_DEFINE_HASH_FUNCTIONS adhere strict aliasing (jeffro256)
#9694¹¹ crypto: remove unused POD classes (iamamyth)

monero-project/monero-gui: none

monero-project/monero-site:

#2438¹² Fix typo (arithefirst)

Closed (0)

monero-project/monero: none

monero-project/monero-gui : none

monero-project/monero-site: none

Merged (6)

monero-project/monero:

#9649¹³ unit_tests: fix variant tests after ‘optional’ name split (jeffro256)
#9510¹⁴ CI: -j4 with lin/win runners (plowsof)
#9601¹⁵ wallet: shortchain history should include base block (0xFFFC0000)
#9602¹⁶ wallet: shortchain history should include base block [RELEASE] (0xFFFC0000)
#9640¹⁷ depends: add cmake config command (tobtoht)
#9162¹⁸ depends: boost: update to 1.84.0 (tobtoht)

monero-project/monero-gui: none

monero-project/monero-site: none

2 - ISSUES (6, 4:2)

Opened (4)

monero-project/monero:

#9684¹⁹ Build Dependencies (tobtoht)
#9695²⁰ [Discussion] DNS Seed Nodes Maintenance and Centralization (ohchase)
#9696²¹ [Discussion] White and Gray List is confusing (ohchase)

monero-project/monero-gui:

#4397²² Problem with wallet location inside synced Nextcloud folder on Linux (heronimoo)

monero-project/monero-site: none

Closed (2)

monero-project/monero:

#9682²³ Transaction stuck on Pending for a long time (CocolinoFan)

monero-project/monero-gui:

#4396²⁴ v0.18.3.4 total fail, nothing works, what gives (nomisma-qt)

monero-project/monero-site: none

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