2 Oct 2026 [dev] [wallets]

Monero v0.18.5.3 'Fluorine Fermi' tagged

The official Monero v0.18.5.3 Fluorine Fermi has been tagged (CLI/GUI)1 and the release binaries should be out soon.

Changes overview

* [CLI] blockchain_prune: use per-table LMDB stats for resize estimation
* [CLI] epee: avoid bad_weak_ptr during connection teardown
* [CLI] wallet_api: set m_password in the recovery creation paths
* [CLI] Fix stall issues with p2p
* [CLI] txpool: re-relay txs that haven't been relayed and need to be
* [CLI] rpc: hide sensitive txs from restricted block templates
* [CLI] tx_pool: do expensive verify after potential no-drop offenses
* [CLI] p2p: update peer's height on new block & widen window for relay
* [GUI] main: add more fiat currency options, rework api logic
* [GUI] main: enforce SOCKS5 for GUI proxy connections
* [GUI] Transfer: disable offline signing for hardware wallets [..]

The complete changelog is available on Github2.

Contributors are encouraged to share the results of their deterministic build processes3 by making a pull request to the monero-project/gitian.sigs4 repository.

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

  1. https://github.com/monero-project/monero/releases/tag/v0.18.5.3, https://github.com/monero-project/monero-gui/releases/tag/v0.18.5.3 ↩

  2. https://github.com/monero-project/monero/compare/v0.18.5.1…v0.18.5.3, https://github.com/monero-project/monero-gui/compare/v0.18.5.2…v0.18.5.3 ↩

  3. https://github.com/monero-project/monero/blob/release-v0.18/contrib/gitian/README.md ↩

  4. https://github.com/monero-project/gitian.sigs/ ↩