Monero Dev Activity Report - Week 32 2022: 31 PRs, 13 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 (31, 11:2:18)

Opened (11)

monero-project/monero:

• #8488¹ tests: update block_weight for 2021 scaling (moneromooo-monero)
• #8489² simplewallet: error added upon incorrect index placing (Kyrilasa)
• #8490³ version: bump master version number (selsta)
• #8491⁴ Bump Gitian build instructions to v0.18.1.0 [Release Branch] (sethforprivacy)
• #8495⁵ repo: remove ldns leftovers (selsta)
• #8496⁶ README: unbound is not vendored anymore (selsta)
• #8497⁷ depends: remove unused packages (selsta)
• #8498⁸ README: Forum link (maogo)
• #8502⁹ Resync to upstream mdb.master (hyc)

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #4000¹⁰ repo: remove ldns leftovers (selsta)
• #4003¹¹ docker: update linux dependencies (selsta)

Closed (2)

monero-project/monero:

• #8464¹² randomx: update submodule [release-v0.18] (selsta)
• #8501¹³ lmdb: update to latest master (selsta)

monero-project/monero-gui: none

Merged (18)

monero-project/monero:

• #8451¹⁴ zmq: publish submitted txs via zmq [release-v0.18] (j-berman)
• #8454¹⁵ Fix use of rtxn without a mdb_txn_safe wrapper [release-v0.18] (hyc)
• #8455¹⁶ Fixed get_block_template_backlog performance [release-v0.18] (SChernykh)
• #8463¹⁷ device: set ledger min app version [release-v0.18] (selsta)
• #8466¹⁸ ledger support for hf 15 (BP+, view tags) [release-v0.18] (j-berman)
• #8467¹⁹ txpool: continue pool pruning even if a tx can’t be found [release-v0.18] (j-berman)
• #8470²⁰ build: prepare v0.18.1.0 (selsta)
• #8464²¹ feat(trezor): add HF15 support, BP+, release-v0.18 (ph4r05)
• #8492²² randomx: update submodule [release-v0.18] (selsta)

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #3973²³ README: Update copyright to 2022 (garth-xmr)
• #3978²⁴ TxUtils: don’t show resolve for float (reemuru)
• #3985²⁵ Windows installer: Welcome image for 0.18 (rbrunner7)
• #3988²⁶ trim restore height at info -> change height input (plowsof)
• #3999²⁷ Dockerfile: fix hash (selsta)
• #3998²⁸ build: prepare v0.18.1.0 (selsta)
• #3995²⁹ main: only check mining status when using local node (selsta)
• #3994³⁰ libwalletqt: refresh once on wallet opening (selsta)
• #3734³¹ Settings: option to skip stop local node screen (selsta)

2 - ISSUES (13, 5:8)

Opened (5)

monero-project/monero:

• #8493³² make_multisig returns unhelpful error message on bad input to multisig_info (woodser)
• #8494³³ monero-wallet-cli broken cli output (majorendian)
• #8500³⁴ Problem syncing GUI 0.18.1.0 (xmrca)

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #4005³⁵ “Unknown Error” (JamesAngelX)
• #4002³⁶ Couldn’t open wallet v0.18 (Petr-Mi)

Closed (8)

monero-project/monero:

• #8487³⁷ monerod crashes after failing to store HTTP SSL cert/key for RPC server (bloatmode)
• #8447³⁸ all funds gone through 3.9 XMR in fee (kvnkmth)

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #3732³⁹ Allow the option to disable the “Do you want to stop local node” screen. (Stetsed)
• #3975⁴⁰ Amount gets interpreted as openalias domain (selsta)
• #3984⁴¹ Splash Screen showing Oxygen Orion not Fluorine Fermi (BitVenturesUSA)
• #4001⁴² Can’t start P2Pool (Flatpak) (MichuuMichuu)
• #4004⁴³ Can’t create transaction: ring size / bulletproof rangesig (pluja)
• #3989⁴⁴ v18 syncing issues linux (fugbixer)

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