Monero Dev Activity Report - Week 4 2025: 38 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 (38, 15:4:19)

Opened (15)

monero-project/monero:

• #9722¹ build: prepare v0.18.4.0 (selsta)
• #9724² cmake: remove obsolete msys2 workaround (tobtoht)
• #9725³ cmake: don’t explicitely link libatomic (tobtoht)
• #9727⁴ cmake: remove unused lto options (tobtoht)
• #9728⁵ cmake: remove redundant config env var (tobtoht)
• #9726⁶ cmake: remove obsolete policy setting (tobtoht)
• #9729⁷ cmake: remove msvc (tobtoht)
• #9732⁸ docs: don’t allow maintainers to edit docs without review (tobtoht)
• #9730⁹ docs: allow maintainers to merge their own prs if queued (tobtoht)
• #9733¹⁰ docs: do not automatically promote contributors to maintainers (tobtoht)
• #9734¹¹ docs: clarify who can approve and how (tobtoht)
• #9735¹² docs: remove ‘Monero Maintainer Team’ (tobtoht)

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #4401¹³ Dockerfile linux: fix boost download url (Malinero)
• #4402¹⁴ Docker android: upgrade dependencies (Malinero)

monero-project/monero-site:

• #2441¹⁵ sponsors: remove broken link (plowsof)

Closed (4)

monero-project/monero:

• #5934¹⁶ transfer by preferred txid (zhongqiuwood)
• #9719¹⁷ Multi uri (sa8ab)
• #9641¹⁸ depends: expat: update to 2.6.4 (tobtoht)

monero-project/monero-gui :

• #3749¹⁹ LeftPanel: use different color for each account; account card navigation; display account in page headers (rating89us)

monero-project/monero-site: none

Merged (19)

monero-project/monero:

• #9523²⁰ build: bump minimum macos version to 10.15 (tobtoht)
• #9643²¹ depends: hidapi: update to 0.14.0 (tobtoht)
• #9688²² Revert “blockchain: detect and log bad difficulty calculations” (selsta)
• #9689²³ Revert “blockchain: detect and log bad difficulty calculations” [release-v0.18] (selsta)
• #9691²⁴ crypto: make CRYPTO_DEFINE_HASH_FUNCTIONS adhere strict aliasing (jeffro256)
• #9692²⁵ crypto: make CRYPTO_DEFINE_HASH_FUNCTIONS adhere strict aliasing [RELEASE] (jeffro256)
• #9693²⁶ common: Remove resolved FIXME in pod-class.h (iamamyth)
• #9694²⁷ crypto: remove unused POD classes (iamamyth)
• #9680²⁸ ci: add arch linux build (tobtoht)
• #9459²⁹ Cleanup TCP throttling code (performance) (vtnerd)
• #9460³⁰ Cleanup TCP throttling code (performance) [0.18] (vtnerd)
• #9720³¹ functional tests: fix race in restore wallet refresh (j-berman)
• #9721³² ci: msys2: downgrade icu to fix build [RELEASE] (tobtoht)
• #9642³³ depends: unbound: update to 1.22.0 (tobtoht)
• #9701³⁴ daemon: fix log message typo (selsta)
• #9715³⁵ gtest: add submodule (tobtoht)
• #9690³⁶ build: auto-set GitHub runner make job count (iamamyth)
• #9716³⁷ tests: Fix tools::is_hdd unit tests (iamamyth)
• #9723³⁸ ci: Parallelize Arch Linux build (iamamyth)

monero-project/monero-gui: none

monero-project/monero-site: none

2 - ISSUES (8, 6:2)

Opened (6)

monero-project/monero:

• #9731³⁹ Set arbitrary extra data when creating transfers (woodser)
• #9736⁴⁰ failed to parse blob 1.5 tb storage but input output error at 85% (Lexonight1)

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #4404⁴¹ SSL Cert for GUI (skironDotNet)
• #4403⁴² Failed to store wallet (mhoude1966)
• #4405⁴³ Can’t to rename Primary Address (developergames2d)

monero-project/monero-site:

• #2442⁴⁴ Adding xmr-proxy for tools section (tornadocontrib)

Closed (2)

monero-project/monero:

• #9700⁴⁵ tesnet typo (tankf33der)

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #4397⁴⁶ Problem with wallet location inside synced Nextcloud folder on Linux (heronimoo)

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.

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-3RA