10 Nov 2024 [dev]

Monero Dev Activity Report - Week 45 2024: 18 PRs, 12 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, 13:5:0)

Opened (13)

monero-project/monero:

#9552¹ Add Nix derivation for Monero dependencies (philipmw)
#9555² p2p: –tx-proxy is not required to use –anonymous-inbound [RELEASE] (0xFFFC0000)
#9554³ monerod.service: use network-online.target [RELEASE] (0xFFFC0000)
#9551⁴ p2p: –tx-proxy is not required to use –anonymous-inbound (0xFFFC0000)
#9556⁵ ringct: add operator!= for key (jeffro256)
#9558⁶ p2p: allow comments in banlist files (jeffro256)
#9559⁷ [WIP] carrot_core (jeffro256)
#9560⁸ serialization: silence warning about shifting uint8_t by 8 (jeffro256)

monero-project/monero-gui: none

monero-project/monero-site:

#2413⁹ faq: update the outdated content (HardenedSteel)
#2411¹⁰ [WIP] merchants: change the comparison (HardenedSteel)
#2416¹¹ user guides: replace outdated how to run node guide (HardenedSteel)
#2417¹² Update dev guides page (HardenedSteel)
#2419¹³ Update LICENSE date and name (jermanuts)

Closed (5)

monero-project/monero:

#9553¹⁴ blake2b: compress and wipe keys immediately (jeffro256)

monero-project/monero-gui :

#4374¹⁵ test (its-mash)
#4375¹⁶ Self hosted (its-mash)

monero-project/monero-site:

#2091¹⁷ Add built on monero page WIP (plowsof)
#2409¹⁸ blog: add March 2023 transparency report (HardenedSteel)

Merged (0)

monero-project/monero: none

monero-project/monero-gui: none

monero-project/monero-site: none

2 - ISSUES (12, 11:1)

Opened (11)

monero-project/monero:

#9557¹⁹ no incoming connections - check firewall/routers allow 18080 (luckytalk)
#9561²⁰ create cmake and make should fallback to system packages for projects in /external (solomoncyj)
#9562²¹ Feature request: Tor controlport for a good management of Tor (XMRZombie)

monero-project/monero-gui:

#4373²² Building for Windows in MSYS2. All fine until make release-win64 -j4 (imfatant)
#4372²³ What is the correct way to upgrade from version 0.18.2.2? (paolosezart)

monero-project/monero-site:

#2408²⁴ March 2023 transparency report is missing (HardenedSteel)
#2410²⁵ Meta: Define Criterias For Merchants & Exchanges Page (HardenedSteel)
#2412²⁶ Meta: Define Criteria For Wallets (PC & Mobile) (jermanuts)
#2414²⁷ New Pictures For Press Kit Page (HardenedSteel)
#2415²⁸ dev guides: Removal of Monero Ecosystem (HardenedSteel)
#2418²⁹ Monero logo colors are inconsistent on website and in press kit (jermanuts)

Closed (1)

monero-project/monero:

#9500³⁰ monero-blockchain-prune prune DB from 80 GB -> to 83 GB - bravo! :) (itmagpro)

monero-project/monero-gui: none

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