Monero Dev Activity Report - Week 9 2025: 20 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 (20, 4:0:16)

Opened (4)

monero-project/monero:

• #9821¹ Fix HTTP unit tests (broken with new Boost versions) (vtnerd)
• #9820² Add incoming only test (vtnerd)
• #9823³ Add incoming only test [0.18] (vtnerd)
• #9824⁴ chore: fix some typos in comments (shenpengfeng)

monero-project/monero-gui: none

monero-project/monero-site: none

Closed (0)

monero-project/monero: none

monero-project/monero-gui : none

monero-project/monero-site: none

Merged (16)

monero-project/monero:

• #9538⁵ make: remove static targets (tobtoht)

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #4339⁶ DEPLOY: altool is deprecated, replace with notarytool (selsta)
• #4351⁷ wizardRestore: blindly (re)enable create wallet button (plowsof)
• #4362⁸ Dockerfile.linux: freetype.git mirror (plowsof)
• #4366⁹ build.yml: pyenv vcs for python (plowsof)
• #4377¹⁰ docker: update Qt to 5.15.16 (selsta)
• #4390¹¹ p2pool: update to v4.3 (SChernykh)
• #4401¹² Dockerfile linux: fix boost download url (Malinero)
• #4402¹³ Docker android: upgrade dependencies (Malinero)
• #4411¹⁴ Fix the testnet address check (preland)
• #4412¹⁵ Win deploy: Boost Regex is header-only since 1.77 (Malinero)
• #4415¹⁶ README: clarify docker build process (selsta)
• #4381¹⁷ build: set cxx standard to 17 in dev mode (tobtoht)
• #4349¹⁸ build(deps): bump actions/download-artifact from 3 to 4.1.7 in /.github/workflows (dependabot)
• #4416¹⁹ ci: fix MSYS2 build (tobtoht)
• #4417²⁰ p2pool: update to v4.4 (SChernykh)

monero-project/monero-site: none

2 - ISSUES (9, 4:5)

Opened (4)

monero-project/monero:

• #9816²¹ What timezone is used on transactions / transfers in Monero gui wallet? (dimyself)
• #9815²² Static Libs (batterhour)
• #9817²³ incoming connection counts seems unrealistic and doesn’t match system (Gingeropolous)
• #9822²⁴ possible speed up for HDDs initial sync, pre-sizing database to the current size of the database instead of constant resizing (Gingeropolous)

monero-project/monero-gui: none

monero-project/monero-site: none

Closed (5)

monero-project/monero:

• #9814²⁵ Syntax Error (batterhour)
• #9819²⁶ Monero compilation (batterhour)
• #9825²⁷ What is the relationship between spendkey, viewkey and GENESIS_TX? (xinhaoming-gpu)

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #4341²⁸ [GUI][Restore wallet] ‘Create wallet’ stays disabled until monero-wallet-gui is closed (b4n6-b4n6)
• #4414²⁹ [Bug][Linux] Monerod built from monero-gui repo do not work (not-a-money-printer)

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