16 Feb 2025 [dev]

Monero Dev Activity Report - Week 7 2025: 40 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 (40, 3:2:35)

Opened (3)

monero-project/monero:

#9795¹ tests: Speed up p2p reorg test (iamamyth)
#9798² CoC: do not allow Maintainers to tag releases, unless core is not available within a reasonable time (tobtoht)

monero-project/monero-gui:

#4411³ Fix the testnet address check (preland)

monero-project/monero-site: none

Closed (2)

monero-project/monero:

#8509⁴ cmake: only fallback to vendored miniupnpc (selsta)
#9738⁵ Comments on the Code of Conduct (tobtoht)

monero-project/monero-gui : none

monero-project/monero-site: none

Merged (35)

monero-project/monero:

#9792⁶ p2p/net_node.inl : update seed node (plowsof)
#9793⁷ p2p/net_node.inl : update seed node [release v0.18] (plowsof)
#9779⁸ ci: consolidate ubuntu 20.04 runs (tobtoht)
#9778⁹ ci: containerize depends jobs [0.18] (tobtoht)
#9777¹⁰ ci: development build backports [0.18] (tobtoht)
#9771¹¹ src: bump network speed 4x [RELEASE] (nahuhh)
#9770¹² src: bump network speed 4x (nahuhh)
#9769¹³ ci: run guix builds on Cargo.lock update (tobtoht)
#9763¹⁴ tests: Improve functional_tests_rpc startup (iamamyth)
#9761¹⁵ utils: Simplify python RPC Response implementation (iamamyth)
#9760¹⁶ ringct: remove inclusion of cryptonote_format_utils.h in rctOps.cpp (jeffro256)
#9717¹⁷ ringct: remove unused range proof types and fix serialization bug (jeffro256)
#9687¹⁸ depends: boost: update to 1.66.0 [RELEASE] (tobtoht)
#9711¹⁹ brew: use latest protobuf (tobtoht)
#8617²⁰ wallet: background sync with just the view key [release] (j-berman)
#9718²¹ wallet: fix signed_tx_set RangeProofType serialization [RELEASE] (jeffro256)
#9790²² tests: include where using std::setfill [0.18] (tobtoht)
#9456²³ depends: android_ndk: update to 27 (latest LTS) (tobtoht)
#9582²⁴ Some cleanup in span/connection_context + few more checks (vtnerd)
#9759²⁵ Some cleanup in span/connection_context + few more checks [0.18] (vtnerd)
#9773²⁶ depends: use staging_prefix_dir where possible (tobtoht)
#9729²⁷ cmake: remove msvc (tobtoht)
#9654²⁸ guix: remove automake & autoconf (tobtoht)
#9671²⁹ depends: always pass –with-pic to autoconf builds (tobtoht)
#9762³⁰ tests: Improve p2p tx propagation functional test (iamamyth)
#9796³¹ tests: Improve p2p tx propagation functional test [v0.18] (iamamyth)
#9728³² cmake: remove redundant config env var (tobtoht)
#9775³³ Set response limits on http server connections [0.18] (vtnerd)
#9722³⁴ build: prepare v0.18.4.0 (selsta)
#9765³⁵ Add configuration options to HTTP server (vtnerd)
#9800³⁶ Fix build with boost ASIO 1.87. Support boost 1.66+ [0.18] (vtnerd)
#9787³⁷ wallet: add wallet rpc call to get default fee priority (woodser)
#9788³⁸ wallet: add wallet rpc call to get default fee priority [RELEASE] (woodser)
#9797³⁹ ci: add arch linux build [0.18] (tobtoht)
#9784⁴⁰ ci: containerize depends jobs (tobtoht)

monero-project/monero-gui: none

monero-project/monero-site: none

2 - ISSUES (9, 3:6)

Opened (3)

monero-project/monero:

#9794⁴¹ seed node instability. restarts constantly (Gingeropolous)
#9799⁴² Support elevated and extra elevated priorities in automatic fee priority algorithm (woodser)

monero-project/monero-gui:

#4410⁴³ [Bug] [Windows] Reopening a Minimized Window that was once Maximized (elibroftw)

monero-project/monero-site: none

Closed (6)

monero-project/monero:

#9789⁴⁴ Unable to sync after pruning: E internal error: passed start_height not < m_db->height() – 3343083 >= 3343083 (tendermonster)
#9774⁴⁵ jsonrpc-get_info free_space is incorrect (nice42q)
#9755⁴⁶ p2p functional test failure (selsta)
#9596⁴⁷ Add support for upcoming Boost 1.87.0 (Boost.Asio removals) (cho-m)
#9785⁴⁸ Default priority has no mapping in get_fee_estimate (woodser)

monero-project/monero-gui:

#4409⁴⁹ Line 160 in Dockerfile.linux fails checksum check (the8woodcutter)

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