Monero Dev Activity Report - Week 6 2023: 19 PRs, 4 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 (19, 7:0:12)

Opened (7)

monero-project/monero:

• #8734¹ wallet: move connection control into NodeRPCProxy (jeffro256)
• #8735² serialization: remove unused function dump_json (jeffro256)
• #8736³ Revert “epee: when loading a JSON RPC payload, ensure params is an ob… (moneromooo-monero)
• #8737⁴ depends: bump openssl to 1.1.1t (tobtoht)
• #8738⁵ depends: bump openssl to 1.1.1t [release-v0.18] (tobtoht)
• #8739⁶ build: prepare v0.18.2.0 (selsta)

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #4116⁷ wizardWalletInput: check wallet exists / pick correct default name (plowsof)

monero-project/monero-site: none

Closed (0)

monero-project/monero: none

monero-project/monero-gui: none

monero-project/monero-site: none

Merged (12)

monero-project/monero:

• #8691⁸ rpc: do not misidentify coinbase txes as pruned (moneromooo-monero)
• #8692⁹ epee: when loading a JSON RPC payload, ensure params is an object (moneromooo-monero)
• #8693¹⁰ heed NO_COLOR environment variable (moneromooo-monero)
• #8697¹¹ win-service: enable auto startup (plowsof)
• #8699¹² readline_buffer: disable bracketed paste escape sequences (jeffro256)
• #8700¹³ daemonizer: don’t uninstall windows service on exit (selsta)
• #8705¹⁴ RandomX: print VM allocation warnings only once (SChernykh)
• #8706¹⁵ RandomX: print VM allocation warnings only once (SChernykh)
• #8712¹⁶ blockchain-stats: print any remaining data at end of loop (hyc)
• #8713¹⁷ depends: bump hidapi/libusb (tobtoht)
• #8714¹⁸ depends: bump hidapi/libusb (tobtoht)
• #8723¹⁹ blockchain-stats: print any remaining data at end of loop [release-v0.18] (hyc)

monero-project/monero-gui: none

monero-project/monero-site: none

2 - ISSUES (4, 2:2)

Opened (2)

monero-project/monero:

• #8740²⁰ Load wallet file very slow (EWIT521)

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #4117²¹ No longer able to build for macOS (Ventura 13.2) (rfpm)

monero-project/monero-site: none

Closed (2)

monero-project/monero:

• #8711²² monero-blockchain-stats omits data from final day (Rucknium)
• #8311²³ get_transactions returns as_hex: “” for miner transactions (kayabaNerve)

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.

Previous reports are listed in the [dev] section.

-3RA