Monero Dev Activity Report - Week 27 2022: 39 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 (39, 10:5:24)

Opened (10)

monero-project/monero:

• #8419¹ Fix some paths for toolchain / build (hyc)
• #8420² workflows: add android to depends (selsta)
• #8421³ wallet2: prevent crash when reading tx w/fewer outputs than expected (j-berman)
• #8423⁴ Doc anon networks (inoutgain)
• #8424⁵ wallet2: try to avoid sending back change to the same recipient (moneromooo-monero)
• #8425⁶ build: prepare v0.18.0.0 (selsta)
• #8426⁷ connection: fix implementation (by @perfect-daemon) (j-berman )
• #8427⁸ zmq: publish submitted txs via zmq (j-berman)

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #3965⁹ convert nettype to int to return correct rpc port (plowsof)
• #3966¹⁰ Updated to p2pool v2.2.1 (SChernykh)

Closed (5)

monero-project/monero:

• #8422¹¹ Doc for anon networks (inoutgain)

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #3748¹² WizardRestoreWallet1: disable Enter/Return and double space on seed text input area (rating89us)
• #2956¹³ Tails: Fix simple and bootstrap mode (tobtoht)
• #2637¹⁴ AddressBook, Transfer: disallow line break in description field (tobtoht)
• #3409¹⁵ SettingsLayout: add “Tor” to “Socks5 proxy” (rating89us)

Merged (24)

monero-project/monero:

• #7774¹⁶ Rawpart (hyc)
• #8296¹⁷ Gitian: refresh the stale Monero dir via –setup switch (mj-xmr)
• #8357¹⁸ README.md: Add v15/v16 network upgrade (garth-xmr)
• #8358¹⁹ clang: warning fix for #8338 (jeffro256)
• #8384²⁰ Revert “Make RPC server functions that read db thread safe” (j-berman)
• #8356²¹ wallet_api: add scanTransactions function (selsta)
• #8388²² Chunk /gettransactions to avoid hitting restricted RPC limit (tobtoht)
• #8390²³ Add fish shell completions for monerod and monero-wallet-cli (LeoNero)
• #8391²⁴ simplewallet: print usage when given no args (hinto-janaiyo)
• #8394²⁵ cryptonote_basic: catch crypto api errors (moneromooo-monero)
• #8400²⁶ Depends: Unbound disable getentropy()/reallocarray() (glibc < 2.26) (TheCharlatan)
• #8404²⁷ wallet2: remove obsolete rpc version check (tobtoht)
• #8408²⁸ wallet2: don’t use DNS to obtain segregation heights (tobtoht)
• #8412²⁹ Rename build-macos CI Job (agowa338)
• #8413³⁰ README: depends has only been tested on ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04 (selsta)
• #8371³¹ Improve consistency between on_money_received and on_money_received_unconfirmed (kayabaNerve)

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #3947³² adding translations from weblate (Monero-Weblate)
• #3959³³ Updated to p2pool v2.2 (SChernykh)
• #3958³⁴ WizardRestoreWallet1: trim whitespaces from seed (selsta)
• #3957³⁵ DaemonManagerDialog: close dialog when GUI is connected (selsta)
• #3955³⁶ oshelper: fix openContainingFolder on Linux (selsta)
• #3954³⁷ Transfer: don’t create offline tx before wallet is synced (selsta)
• #3949³⁸ docker: update Qt to 5.15.5 (selsta)
• #3946³⁹ Mining: add info to start gui as admin for p2pool installation (selsta)

2 - ISSUES (10, 6:4)

Opened (6)

monero-project/monero:

• #8417⁴⁰ feature request: Set store-tx-info in config file. (zmrocze)
• #8418⁴¹ Double bottomed private keys to prevent quantum attacks without losing efficiency (jdefgh)

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #3962⁴² local stagenet node can not connect (plowsof)
• #3963⁴³ Failed to connect the aemon on Android (hmsjy2017)
• #3964⁴⁴ Builtin Tor Routing (nickname76)
• #3967⁴⁵ Sent transaction is not visible in the “Transactions” section until first confirmation (Akira45-0)

Closed (4)

monero-project/monero:

• #8417⁴⁶ Stop using MoneroPulse checkpointing and making unnecessary DNS queries unless explicitly enabled in wallet2 (sethforprivacy)
• #8405⁴⁷ Unspendable dust outputs (> 0.00000582 XMR~) (hinto-janaiyo)

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #3961⁴⁸ Monero GUI showing zero balance issue (purpleskie5)
• #3960⁴⁹ [Bug] Different destination address shown on Ledger device (AsBenDoge)

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