Monero Dev Activity Report - Week 26 2025: 10 PRs, 10 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 (10, 6:2:2)

Opened (6)

monero-project/monero:

• #9969¹ guix: update gcc to 13.3.0 (tobtoht)
• #9971² wallet2: ignore checkpoints in fast_refresh when height < 1000 (valldrac)
• #9966³ cmake: don’t redefine project [0.18] (tobtoht)
• #9967⁴ cmake: don’t redefine project (tobtoht)
• #9968⁵ ci: bump debian to 11 (tobtoht)

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #4467⁶ Mining.qml: Change ‘Background mining’ to ‘Pause when active’ (PyXMR2025)

monero-project/monero-site: none

Closed (2)

monero-project/monero: none

monero-project/monero-gui :

• #4459⁷ p2pool: update to v4.8 (SChernykh)

monero-project/monero-site:

• #2486⁸ en.yml/roadmap/faq: add hyphen to fcmp / remove duplicate keys (PyXMR2025)

Merged (2)

monero-project/monero: none

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #4462⁹ p2pool: update to v4.8.1 (SChernykh)

monero-project/monero-site:

• #2487¹⁰ i18n roadmap faq: add hyphen to fcmp / remove duplicate keys (plowsof)

2 - ISSUES (10, 5:5)

Opened (5)

monero-project/monero:

• #9965¹¹ monerod writing 1TiB on disk for a 50GiB (pruned) blockchain (hustlerone)
• #9970¹² Daemon logs deep alternative chains (>60k blocks) on fully synced node (Rav3nPL)
• #9972¹³ System crashed overnight, blockchain (seemingly) corrupted (GanerCodes)

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #4464¹⁴ Daemon synchronization is taking too long (tarunkumar-collab)
• #4466¹⁵ Change the word ‘background’ in GUI mining to ‘pause when active’ (PyXMR2025)

monero-project/monero-site: none

Closed (5)

monero-project/monero:

• #9964¹⁶ monerod exits under dinit with “Loading checkpoi” (iacore)
• #9794¹⁷ seed node instability. restarts constantly (Gingeropolous)

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #4456¹⁸ Cannot Sign or Verify any Messages (marvagabi)
• #4465¹⁹ mining_status under log reports not mining even though gui reports hashrate (HoaxParagon)
• #4463²⁰ scan transaction by transaction id causes program to stop responding (HoaxParagon)

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