29 Mar 2025 | Updated 31 Mar 2025 [dev] [wallets]

Monero v0.18.4.0 'Fluorine Fermi' tagged

The official Monero v0.18.4.0 Fluorine Fermi (CLI)1 has been tagged and the release binaries should be out soon.

Changes overview

* wallet: background sync with just the view key
* Add configuration options to HTTP server
* blockchain sync: reduce disk writes from 2 to 1 per tx
* cryptonote_protocol: fix handling of pruned blocks during sync
* monerod.service: use network-online.target
* Fix --anonymous-inbound data leak [0.18] 
* Blockchain: get height of RingCT fork programmatically [..]

It is worth noting that the GUI will probably be tagged later today.

Contributors are encouraged to share the results of their deterministic build processes2 by making a pull request to the monero-project/gitian.sigs3 repository.

This is an ongoing story and the report will be updated when new information is available.


Update: GUI tagged4; edited Gitian links.