12 Oct 2025 [dev]

Monero Dev Activity Report - Week 41 2025: 32 PRs, 9 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 (32, 5:0:27)

Opened (5)

monero-project/monero:

#10153¹ wallet: identify spends in pool when scanning [v0.18] (j-berman)
#10156² cryptonote_core: rm confusing/redundant BP consensus rule (jeffro256)
#10157³ cryptonote_core: cache input verification results directly in mempool (jeffro256)

monero-project/monero-gui: none

monero-project/monero-site:

#2541⁴ Add Cake Wallet and remove MyMonero (sethforprivacy)
#2539⁵ downloads: add torrent (plowsof)

Closed (0)

monero-project/monero: none

monero-project/monero-gui : none

monero-project/monero-site: none

Merged (27)

monero-project/monero:

#10086⁶ wallet2: warn instead of throw when RingDB doesn’t include spend (j-berman)
#10109⁷ Daemon RPC: fix on_getblockhash error return on too high height (j-berman)
#10125⁸ Daemon RPC: fix on_getblockhash error return on too high height [v0.18] (j-berman)
#10146⁹ cryptonote_basic: rm redundant call to get_transaction_hash() in overload (jeffro256)
#10147¹⁰ Cleaner validation (faster and saner) (j-berman)
#10148¹¹ Cleaner validation (faster and saner) [v0.18] (j-berman)
#10149¹² cryptonote_basic: rm redundant call to get_transaction_hash() in overload [RELEASE] (jeffro256)
#10150¹³ wallet2: warn instead of throw when RingDB doesn’t include spend [v0.18] (j-berman)
#9730¹⁴ CoC: allow maintainers to merge their own prs if queued (tobtoht)
#9732¹⁵ CoC: don’t allow maintainers to edit docs without review (tobtoht)
#9733¹⁶ CoC: do not automatically promote contributors to maintainers (tobtoht)
#9735¹⁷ CoC: remove ‘Monero Maintainer Team’ (tobtoht)
#9737¹⁸ CoC: remove ‘creating stable releases’ section (tobtoht)
#9742¹⁹ CoC: clarify ‘project founders’ (tobtoht)
#9743²⁰ CoC: remove constraints on ‘release history’ (tobtoht)
#9744²¹ CoC: remove constraint suggesting copyright can be ‘owned collectively’ (tobtoht)
#9748²² CoC: prohibit anyone from committing patches to the project directly (tobtoht)
#9749²³ CoC: do not encourage using real names or ‘well-known aliases’ (tobtoht)
#9750²⁴ CoC: ‘log an issue’ -> ‘open an issue’ (tobtoht)
#9752²⁵ CoC: only allow Administrators to merge changes to the CoC (tobtoht)
#10107²⁶ src: update checkpoints to match v0.18.4.3 (selsta)
#10106²⁷ build: prepare v0.18.4.3 (selsta)
#9672²⁸ depends: openssl: update to 3.5.4 (LTS) (tobtoht)

monero-project/monero-gui:

#4507²⁹ build: prepare v0.18.4.3 (selsta)

monero-project/monero-site:

#2524³⁰ docs: monerodocs.org -> docs.getmonero.org ++ (plowsof)
#2540³¹ Update hashes for v0.18.4.3 (binaryFate)
#2537³² blog: add v0.18.4.3 release notes (selsta)

2 - ISSUES (9, 6:3)

Opened (6)

monero-project/monero:

#10152³³ v0.18.4.4 release to-do list (selsta)
#10154³⁴ Seed nodes connect to themselves (nahuhh)
#10151³⁵ Fluffyblocks sending already known txs(?) (nahuhh)
#10159³⁶ tx pool: fails to relay some txs, and stops trying (nahuhh)
#10155³⁷ Invalid DNSSEC message (balz666)

monero-project/monero-gui:

#4508³⁸ –prune-blockchain flag not working in AppImage (Yagat0)

monero-project/monero-site: none

Closed (3)

monero-project/monero:

#10080³⁹ v0.18.4.3 release to-do list (selsta)
#10160⁴⁰ - (Yagat0)

monero-project/monero-gui: none

monero-project/monero-site:

#2538⁴¹ add a torrent file to downloads (plowsof)

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