25 Feb 2024 [dev]

Monero Dev Activity Report - Week 8 2024: 52 PRs, 10 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 (52, 19:1:32)

Opened (19)

monero-project/monero:

#9179¹ actions: update to v4 actions (tobtoht)
#9181² Add RecursiveReadWriteLock Locking (0xFFFC0000)
#9184³ Remove instructions for Void Linux, add NixOS (sausagenoods)
#9187⁴ depends: add download commands for freebsd & android sources (tobtoht)
#9180⁵ Add –no-sync-pruned-blocks, and enable syncing pruned blocks by default for pruned nodes (expiredhotdog)
#9185⁶ Fix Broken Links (justindhillon)
#9194⁷ serialization: protect blob serialization from undefined behavior (jeffro256)
#9198⁸ [seraphis] crypto: add blake2b (UkoeHB)
#9197⁹ [seraphis] seraphis_crypto: add seraphis hash functions (UkoeHB)
#9196¹⁰ [seraphis] seraphis_crypto: add crypto utils (UkoeHB)
#9199¹¹ depends: {native_,}protobuf: speedup build (tobtoht)
#9200¹² depends: native_cctools: don’t embed build date (tobtoht)
#9195¹³ serialization: free function DSL (jeffro256)
#9202¹⁴ depends: add command to print variables (tobtoht)
#9204¹⁵ depends: native_libtapi: don’t embed git hash (tobtoht)
#9203¹⁶ simplewallet: edit desc. text for transfer (plowsof)

monero-project/monero-gui:

#4278¹⁷ Remove instructions for Void Linux, add NixOS (sausagenoods)

monero-project/monero-site:

#2249¹⁸ devguides: add subtract_fee_from_outputs to wallet-rpc transfer (plowsof)
#2250¹⁹ devguides: add proxy to wallet-rpc set_daemon (plowsof)

Closed (1)

monero-project/monero:

#9173²⁰ [DRAFT] Add ReadWrite locking mechanism on top of Blockchain. (0xFFFC0000)

monero-project/monero-gui : none

monero-project/monero-site: none

Merged (32)

monero-project/monero:

#8940²¹ epee binary: container can read from empty seq of any type (jeffro256)
#8945²² wallet: feature: transfer amount with fee included [RELEASE] (jeffro256)
#9005²³ depends: move cmake system config to hosts files (tobtoht)
#9006²⁴ wallet2: fix on_reorg callback location (j-berman)
#9008²⁵ wallet2: add on_reorg callback [release] (j-berman)
#9121²⁶ depends: update config scripts (jeffro256)
#9125²⁷ epee/test: remove levin_protocol_handler and core_proxy tests (jeffro256)
#9128²⁸ actions: remove unnecessary packages (tobtoht)
#9130²⁹ wallet: mitigate statistical dependence for decoy selection within rings [RELEASE] (jeffro256)
#9132³⁰ Cleanup extra memory allocation, and port boost to std shared_ptr (0xFFFC0000)
#9137³¹ daemon: warn user on specifiying ZMQ args with –no-zmq (jeffro256)
#9138³² Disable/fix ports with I2P (vtnerd)
#9142³³ Disable/fix ports with I2P [0.18] (vtnerd)
#9143³⁴ Add to aligned test (vtnerd)
#9145³⁵ Add to aligned test (vtnerd)
#9155³⁶ Zero initialize rctSigBase elements (vtnerd)
#9156³⁷ Zero initialize rctSigBase elements (vtnerd)
#9159³⁸ remove ARCH=”x86-64” from release-static [RELEASE] (woodser)
#9160³⁹ Daemon-specific proxy for the wallet-rpc. (0xFFFC0000)
#9163⁴⁰ depends: unbound: update to 1.19.1 (tobtoht)
#9164⁴¹ depends: expat: update to 2.6.0 (tobtoht)
#9165⁴² depends: openssl: update to 3.0.13 (tobtoht)
#9178⁴³ depends: update expat, unbound, openssl [RELEASE] (tobtoht)
#9182⁴⁴ depends: android_ndk: update to 18b (tobtoht)
#9188⁴⁵ cryptonote_core: early out on out of bounds scaling parameter [release-v0.18] (selsta)
#9189⁴⁶ cryptonote_core: early out on out of bounds scaling parameter (selsta)
#9190⁴⁷ docs: omit i2p port number from ANONYMITY_NETWORKS [release-v0.18] (selsta)
#9191⁴⁸ docs: omit i2p port number from ANONYMITY_NETWORKS (selsta)
#9136⁴⁹ build: prepare v0.18.3.2 (selsta)
#9158⁵⁰ serialization: fix infinite loops and clean up dispatching [RELEASE] (jeffro256)
#9004⁵¹ cmake: require sodium (tobtoht)
#8861⁵² wallet: feature: transfer amount with fee included (jeffro256)

monero-project/monero-gui: none

monero-project/monero-site: none

2 - ISSUES (10, 4:6)

Opened (4)

monero-project/monero:

#9186⁵³ Monero OpenRPC Specification (kilianmh)
#9201⁵⁴ Problems sending Monero (tacobella1)

monero-project/monero-gui: none

monero-project/monero-site:

#2248⁵⁵ devguides: wallet-rpc transfer amount with fee included missing (plowsof)
#2247⁵⁶ Some swappers not providing monero anymore (MajesticBank)

Closed (6)

monero-project/monero:

#9183⁵⁷ Segfault on any operation on the blockchain (ours-code)
#9193⁵⁸ database: Potential data race for mutual exclusion (hinto-janai)
#9127⁵⁹ Bug: it’s possible to set –no-zmq and zmq pub / bind ip and ports in Monerod config without having any errors (snrocacorns)
#8918⁶⁰ It is possible to open >1 connections to the same I2P node (nahuhh)
#9192⁶¹ Add more zmq features (Codi33)
#7980⁶² transfer and transfer_split lack the option to subtract the fee from the transfer amount (LocalMonero)

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