Monero Dev Activity Report - Week 21 2022: 27 PRs, 12 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, 12:4:11)

Opened (12)

monero-project/monero:

• #8348¹ epee: http_server_handlers_map2 macros to use fully qualified names (jeffro256)
• #8352² epee: more dead code (jeffro256)
• #8354³ net_ssl: Switch to elliptic curve SSL certificates (jeffro256)
• #8355⁴ Refresh improvements to wallet_rpc_server (moneromooo-monero)
• #8356⁵ wallet_api: add scanTransactions function (selsta)
• #8357⁶ README.md: Add v15/v16 network upgrade (garth-xmr)
• #8358⁷ clang: warning fix for #8338 (jeffro256)
• #8359⁸ GCC: general unused warnings (jeffro256)

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #3927⁹ Updated appicons.icns (ismhdez)
• #3931¹⁰ README.md: Update copyright to 2022 (garth-xmr)
• #3932¹¹ SettingsWallet: add scan transaction option (selsta)
• #3933¹² Use p2pool folder for p2pool on Windows (SChernykh)

Closed (4)

monero-project/monero:

• #8353¹³ string_coding: unused functions (jeffro256)
• #8335¹⁴ net_ssl: Use EVP API to create EVP_PKEYs when available (jeffro256)
• #8270¹⁵ Update README.md: Add v15/v16 network upgrade (garth-xmr)
• #8361¹⁶ oaes_lib: gut everything that is unused (jeffro256)

monero-project/monero-gui: none

Merged (11)

monero-project/monero:

• #8349¹⁷ Windows build: fix narrowing error on newer compilers (jeffro256)
• #8318¹⁸ utils: delete outdated windows build script (selsta)
• #8324¹⁹ p2p: Don’t send peer list larger than max allowed (j-berman)
• #8325²⁰ Ignore gitian docker build files (jeffro256)
• #8326²¹ tx pool: fix backoff delay logic when re-relaying txs (j-berman)
• #8328²² disable multisig by default (moneromooo-monero)
• #8331²³ wallet2: fix spurious reorg detection with untrusted nodes (moneromooo-monero)
• #8337²⁴ src, epee: fix a couple compiler warnings (selsta)
• #8340²⁵ common: update sha256sum to use OpenSSL 3.0 API, add test cases (selsta)
• #8338²⁶ GCC: Suppress -Wstringop-overflow= warnings in external/boost (jeffro256)
• #8330²⁷ p2p: don’t exclusively drop tor/i2p outgoing cxns in idle loop (j-berman)

monero-project/monero-gui: none

2 - ISSUES (12, 6:6)

Opened (6)

monero-project/monero:

• #8351²⁸ Stealth_addresses outside prime subgroup (DangerousFreedom1984)
• #8360²⁹ RPC error codes and http status codes (freebeego)
• #8362³⁰ reverse proxy for rpc? (Roki100)

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #3928³¹ monero wallet zero balance problem (rameshbhati)
• #3930³² Double spend even after re-sync following a failed ‘pending’ tx (okuh196)
• #3934³³ Monero wallet shows active p2pool mining when no mining is taking place (Poecilia)

Closed (6)

monero-project/monero:

• #8320³⁴ Compiler warnings: writing 1 byte into a region of size 0 (jeffro256)
• #8345³⁵ Adding Swapzone to the “Swappers” section (MariaSwapzone)
• #8347³⁶ “Error: Daemon response did not include the requested real outputs” (garth-xmr)
• #8350³⁷ ‘#monero-markets:monero.social’ channel in Monero’s official matrix space is ran by a troll (Kreyren)
• #8360³⁸ Monero testnet doesn’t sync to latest height (sharifzadesina)

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #3929³⁹ Monero GUI suddenly restarts syncing blockchain from block 0 (stefan-reich)

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