Monero Dev Activity Report - Week 34 2022: 33 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 (33, 7:3:23)

Opened (7)

monero-project/monero:

• #8527¹ daemon: remove redundant check (serhack)
• #8528² serialization: forbid reading 0 varints from empty data (moneromooo-monero)
• #8529³ rpc: remove overwriting value (serhack)
• #8534⁴ build: prepare v0.18.1.1 (selsta)
• #8535⁵ rpc: avoid superfluous buffer copy (jeffro256)
• #8538⁶ Fix shared_ptr cycle in test_epee_connection.test_lifetime (vtnerd)

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #4013⁷ cmake: update libicu dll version (selsta)

Closed (3)

monero-project/monero:

• #8530⁸ Release v0.18 (WooKeyWallet)
• #4139⁹ [Do Not Merge] Adding “light wallet server” that is mymonero compatible (vtnerd)
• #7649¹⁰ Cleanup TCP shutdown sequence in epee server (vtnerd)

monero-project/monero-gui: none

Merged (23)

monero-project/monero:

• #8299¹¹ feat(trezor): add HF15 support, BP+ (ph4r05)
• #8323¹² DOCS: Rework Portable storage format example (jeffro256)
• #8333¹³ Focus Doxygen documentation (jeffro256)
• #8352¹⁴ epee: more dead code (jeffro256)
• #8359¹⁵ GCC: unused warnings (jeffro256)
• #8379¹⁶ Fix use of rtxn without a mdb_txn_safe wrapper (hyc)
• #8381¹⁷ Fixed get_block_template_backlog performance (SChernykh)
• #8415¹⁸ txpool: continue pool pruning even if a tx can’t be found (j-berman)
• #8419¹⁹ Fix some paths for toolchain / build (hyc)
• #8427²⁰ zmq: publish submitted txs via zmq (j-berman)
• #8428²¹ keccak: error out if passed mdlen 100 (moneromooo-monero)
• #8442²² Bump Gitian build instructions to v0.18.1.0 (sethforprivacy)
• #8444²³ gpg_keys: add jeffro256 key (jeffro256)
• #8450²⁴ Fix occasional mining test failure (moneromooo-monero)
• #8465²⁵ ledger support for hf 15 (BP+, view tags) [master] (j-berman)
• #8491²⁶ Bump Gitian build instructions to v0.18.1.0 [Release Branch] (sethforprivacy)
• #8460²⁷ randomx: update submodule (selsta)
• #8462²⁸ device: set ledger min app version (selsta)
• #8486²⁹ dns_util: remove outdated DNSSEC DS trust anchor (selsta)
• #8490³⁰ version: bump master version number (selsta)
• #8495³¹ repo: remove ldns leftovers (selsta)
• #8496³² README: unbound is not vendored anymore (selsta)
• #8497³³ depends: remove unused packages (selsta)

monero-project/monero-gui: none

2 - ISSUES (12, 5:7)

Opened (5)

monero-project/monero:

• #8531³⁴ scan_tx causes extra transfers with fee=0 (woodser)
• #8532³⁵ Wallet transactions disappear after first confirmation when wallet rpc started with offline daemon (woodser)
• #8537³⁶ Restoring multisig wallet fails (tmoravec)

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #4015³⁷ Pruned Node Language and Bootstrap Mode (PicoDeNero)
• #4017³⁸ Recommendation for monero-gui-wallet-guide.pdf (or gui tool for ip binding in Monero wallet) (Poecilia)

Closed (7)

monero-project/monero:

• #8474³⁹ DNSSEC DS record out of date in dns_utils.cpp (OrvilleRed)
• #8473⁴⁰ RockPro64 sync struggles (dawiepoolman)
• #8536⁴¹ Wallet cli does not connect to daemon, although curl works (aghamir)
• #8453⁴² monero-wallet-cli - Crash on macOS(Arm or x64) (realityworks)
• #8533⁴³ Could blockchain sync use more than 2 cores? (stefan-reich)

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #4014⁴⁴ Wayland support (Froggy232)
• #4016⁴⁵ I used the monero gui, my balance is not displayed and my transaction history is missing. (web26082022)

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