Monero Dev Activity Report - Week 28 2022: 23 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 (23, 3:4:16)

Opened (3)

monero-project/monero:

• #8428¹ keccak: error out if passed mdlen 100 (moneromooo-monero)
• #8441² [CRITICAL] Fixes x86-64 compatibility problem (Thor-x86)

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #3973³ README: Update copyright to 2022 (garth-xmr)

Closed (4)

monero-project/monero:

• #8387⁴ Label multisig as unsafe, not experimental, as #8149 isn’t merged (kayabaNerve)
• #8430⁵ Update README.md (hundehausen)
• #8431⁶ dates and block height of rescheduled hard fork in README (hundehausen)

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #3931⁷ README.md: Update copyright to 2022 (garth-xmr)

Merged (16)

monero-project/monero:

• #8421⁸ wallet2: prevent crash when reading tx w/fewer outputs than expected (j-berman)
• #8149⁹ Multisig: signature fixes (UkoeHB)
• #7986¹⁰ wallet2: keep around transaction prefix for confirmed transfers (tobtoht)
• #8432¹¹ multisig: mitigate fund-burning attack (UkoeHB)
• #8433¹² wallet2: force using output distribution for ringct outs (tobtoht)
• #8414¹³ hardforks: set mainnet and stagenet v15/16 fork height (selsta)
• #8425¹⁴ build: prepare v0.18.0.0 (selsta)
• #8426¹⁵ connection: fix implementation (by @perfect-daemon) (j-berman)
• #8435¹⁶ Template hash function to fix compiler error on version < gcc-6 (j-berman)

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #3932¹⁷ SettingsWallet: add scan transaction option (selsta)
• #3965¹⁸ convert nettype to int to return correct rpc port (plowsof)
• #3966¹⁹ Updated to p2pool v2.2.1 (SChernykh)
• #3968²⁰ display wallet files with “.” in name (plowsof)
• #3969²¹ docker: fix linux build (selsta)
• #3970²² docker: update linux and android openssl (selsta)
• #3972²³ build: prepare v0.18.0.0 (selsta)

2 - ISSUES (12, 4:8)

Opened (4)

monero-project/monero:

• #8429²⁴ Monero GUI (Flatpak) falsely appears to create a wallet despite having no access to the wallet file directory. (ForeverNooob)
• #8437²⁵ monero-blockchain-stats crashes with IOT instruction error (Thor-x86)
• #8438²⁶ Scalar not reduced in tx e4b7982b081a17892525f1b1d3011ec06a0820cbf451d3a64f8ea998104a753c (DangerousFreedom1984)
• #8440²⁷ funds lost!!! (dance88)

monero-project/monero-gui: none

Closed (8)

monero-project/monero:

• #8098²⁸ Debian Bullseye build. SIGBUS, Bus error (shermand100)
• #8434²⁹ Monero (maqz9999)
• #8436³⁰ Window does not drag consistently when using Custom Decorations (Monero Wallet Gui) (SkyeG06)
• #6262³¹ monerod sometimes stops accepting incoming RPC connections (AJIekceu4)
• #7482³² RPC connections stuck in CLOSE_WAIT on high load public RPC server (Gingeropolous)
• #8439³³ ubuntu static-release target fails with undefined symbols (bladedoyle)

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #3962³⁴ local stagenet node can not connect (plowsof)
• #3971³⁵ Would it be possible to mine in p2pool while being in Compatible Monero Remote Nodes? (vladimirzb)

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