24 Aug 2025 [dev]

Monero Dev Activity Report - Week 34 2025: 28 PRs, 6 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 (28, 4:1:23)

Opened (4)

monero-project/monero:

#10052¹ monero_blockchain_export: >2.5x blocksdat export speed (jeffro256)
#10046² BlockchainLMDB: do not assume alignment for alt block entries (jeffro256)
#10055³ Implement daemon sandboxing using Linux Landlock LSM (ovhpse)

monero-project/monero-gui: none

monero-project/monero-site:

#2521⁴ Update index.md - Add LetsExchange Swap Provider (AisuluuT)

Closed (1)

monero-project/monero: none

monero-project/monero-gui : none

monero-project/monero-site:

#2518⁵ Update index.md - new merchant - LetsExchange (AisuluuT)

Merged (23)

monero-project/monero:

#9919⁶ ringct & cryptonote_basic: detangle dependencies (jeffro256)
#9921⁷ error out if functional tests are disabled (moneromooo-monero)
#10007⁸ wallet: RPC method /incoming_transfers without daemon connection (jeffro256)
#10017⁹ simplewallet: fix payment id header in show_transfers command (ComputeryPony)
#10025¹⁰ Daemon RPC: rm high_height_ok field from getblocks.bin (j-berman)
#10026¹¹ cryptonote_basic: remove state_idle in connection_context (jeffro256)
#10029¹² Skip ping connections in outgoing count (vtnerd)
#10031¹³ add depends command for Apple Silicon macOS binaries (woodser)
#10033¹⁴ wallet: fix warning in fee priority algorithm (0xFFFC0000)
#10036¹⁵ epee: include math header for upcoming Boost 1.89 (cho-m)
#10042¹⁶ fix typo in CHECK_AND_ASSERT_MES (lfaoro)
#10044¹⁷ CONTRIBUTING.md: replace discontinued paste service (lfaoro)
#10047¹⁸ Update/p2p connection count [0.18] (vtnerd)
#9883¹⁹ functional_tests: test PR #9863 (jeffro256)
#10048²⁰ epee: include math header for upcoming Boost 1.89 [release-v0.18] (selsta)
#10050²¹ checkpoints: update to a recent block height (selsta)
#10051²² checkpoints: update to a recent block height [release-v0.18] (selsta)
#10008²³ functional_tests: check transfers list consistency in cold_signing (jeffro256)
#9455²⁴ guix: use llvm 18 toolchain for darwin targets (tobtoht)
#10010²⁵ guix: switch to guix shell (tobtoht)
#10053²⁶ functional_tests: fix piecemeal export in cold_signing (jeffro256)

monero-project/monero-gui:

#4490²⁷ p2pool: update to v4.9.1 (SChernykh)
#4476²⁸ chore: remove redundant words in comment (xihuwenhua)

monero-project/monero-site: none

2 - ISSUES (6, 4:2)

Opened (4)

monero-project/monero:

#10045²⁹ BlockchainLMDB misalignment issues (jeffro256)
#10049³⁰ v0.18.4.2 release to-do list (selsta)

monero-project/monero-gui:

#4488³¹ Build arm64 binaries for Linux (arhue)
#4489³² Downloading Blockchain impossible due to speed (trvllr777)

monero-project/monero-site: none

Closed (2)

monero-project/monero:

#10040³³ Preventing selfish mining (zawy12)

monero-project/monero-gui:

#4108³⁴ Bug - Arch/Manjaro Linux - P2Pool permissions (Rikj000)

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