Monero Dev Activity Report - Week 38 2022: 22 PRs, 14 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 (22, 20:1:1)

Opened (20)

monero-project/monero:

• #8574¹ depends: remove unused Qt package (selsta)
• #8575² depends: remove unused file (selsta)
• #8576³ Second thread pool for I/O (SChernykh)
• #8577⁴ Second thread pool for I/O [release-v0.18] (SChernykh)
• #8578⁵ epee: dont shrink slice when storing to binary [release] (jeffro256)
• #8579⁶ depends: remove unused Qt and ldns package [release-v0.18] (selsta)
• #8580⁷ Add Gitian builds to README (duggavo)
• #8582⁸ multisig: force update option for key exchange [v0.18] (UkoeHB)
• #8585⁹ wallet2: fail to establish daemon cxn == “Disconnected” cxn status [release] (j-berman)
• #8586¹⁰ wallet2: fail to establish daemon cxn == “Disconnected” cxn status [master] (j-berman)
• #8587¹¹ Move update_checkpoints() to a later stage (SChernykh)
• #8588¹² Move update_checkpoints() to a later stage [release-v0.18] (SChernykh)
• #8590¹³ readme: fix instructions for win64 cross builds (erciccione)
• #8592¹⁴ Fix ZMQ server poll code (vtnerd)
• #8593¹⁵ workflows: ubuntu 18.04 is deprecated (selsta)
• #8594¹⁶ workflows: ubuntu 18.04 is deprecated [release-v0.18] (selsta)

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #4036¹⁷ Fix behavior when switching nodes (j-berman)
• #4039¹⁸ workflows: fix windows ci deploy (selsta)
• #4040¹⁹ #3749 rebased and reduced (Malinero)
• #4041²⁰ Android: disable asking for desktop entry (Malinero)

Closed (1)

monero-project/monero:

• #8354²¹ net_ssl: Switch to elliptic curve SSL certificates (jeffro256)

monero-project/monero-gui: none

Merged (1)

monero-project/monero: none

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #4030²² build: prepare v0.18.1.1 (selsta)

2 - ISSUES (14, 5:9)

Opened (5)

monero-project/monero:

• #8583²³ wrong version (budmaster13)
• #8584²⁴ Is there a demo of offline address generated by java (leolily7)
• #8595²⁵ estimateTransactionFee no longer takes fee priority into account? (pokkst)

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #4032²⁶ Fee estimate not updating (plowsof)
• #4038²⁷ T (novocals)

Closed (9)

monero-project/monero:

• #8589²⁸ monerod syncs 100% at incorrect block height (ghost)
• #8581²⁹ armv7 binaries for v0.18.1.1 are missing, 404 (sethforprivacy)
• #8409³⁰ Cross compile for win64 broken (agowa338)
• #8591³¹ Specifying a hostname instead of an IP address for –tx-proxy causes daemon to abort (comminutus)
• #8596³² Undefined symbols on OpenBSD for monero-wallet-cli (yuuwe-n)

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #4033³³ https://xmrig.com/wizard (ALTEREDEMPATHnowDARK)
• #4034³⁴ Mining in git hub for free with Montero GUI wallet (ALTEREDEMPATHnowDARK)
• #4035³⁵ Monero not an option to add as account in Ledger Nano X - please help!! (novocals)
• #4037³⁶ XMR did not come to my wallet (1Maestro)

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