Monero Dev Activity Report - Week 36 2022: 18 PRs, 8 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 (18, 5:2:11)

Opened (5)

monero-project/monero:

• #8551¹ multisig: fix seed restore (suggestions by @UkoeHB) [master] (j-berman)
• #8556² wallet2: check wallet compatibility with daemon’s hard fork version [master] (j-berman)
• #8557³ serde: replace JSON and epee binary serialization (j-berman)

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #4025⁴ docker: update qt to 5.15.6 (tobtoht)
• #4026⁵ installer: allow to install on arm64 (selsta)

Closed (2)

monero-project/monero:

• #8535⁶ rpc: avoid superfluous buffer copy (jeffro256)
• #6723⁷ epee: Add locale-independent version of std::to_string (jeandudey)

monero-project/monero-gui: none

Merged (11)

monero-project/monero:

• #8548⁸ epee: http_server_handlers_map2 macros to use fully qualified names (jeffro256)
• #8513⁹ allow exporting outputs in chunks (moneromooo-monero)
• #8538¹⁰ Fix shared_ptr cycle in test_epee_connection.test_lifetime (vtnerd)
• #8547¹¹ Windows: fix unicode file path support (tobtoht)
• #8548¹² Windows: fix unicode file path support [release] (tobtoht)
• #8553¹³ wallet2: Fix missing semi-colon in error message [release] (j-berman)
• #8554¹⁴ wallet2: Fix missing semi-colon in error message [master] (j-berman)
• #8555¹⁵ allow exporting output in chunks (0.18 branch) (moneromooo-monero)
• #8552¹⁶ rpc: skip bootstrap nodes that are lower than last checkpoint [release-v0.18] (selsta)
• #8519¹⁷ rpc: skip bootstrap nodes that are lower than last checkpoint (selsta)
• #8534¹⁸ build: prepare v0.18.1.1 (selsta)

monero-project/monero-gui: none

2 - ISSUES (8, 6:2)

Opened (6)

monero-project/monero:

• #8550¹⁹ monerod docker container 180% CPU usage (After full sync, public node, full node) (NeonMinnen)
• #8560²⁰ monerod fails to start after install or on windows startup when installed as windows service (zubair72)
• #8561²¹ monero-wallet-rpc freezes during getting height and synchronization (gst2233)

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #4022²² P2pool miner not working shows Connected+Mining(Linux Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS) (XOverMindX)
• #4023²³ monerod fails to start when installed as windows service on startup (zubair72)
• #4027²⁴ Allow local monerod server when using Socks5 proxy (zquestz)

Closed (2)

monero-project/monero:

• #8558²⁵ Strip executable files before putting them in releases (duggavo)
• #8559²⁶ Daemon failing to start (EmbeddedAndroid)

monero-project/monero-gui: 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