Monero Dev Activity Report – Week 3 2024: 45 PRs, 8 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 (45, 12:3:30)

Opened (12)

monero-project/monero:

• #9125¹ epee/test: remove levin_protocol_handler and core_proxy tests (jeffro256)
• #9122² cryptonote_basic: faster and more readable is_valid_decomposed_amount (jeffro256)
• #9128³ actions: remove unnecessary packages (tobtoht)
• #9129⁴ Improve Gitian logic and documentation (kevcrumb)
• #9130⁵ wallet: mitigate statistical dependence for decoy selection within rings [RELEASE] (jeffro256)

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #4263⁶ I2p integration (WIP) (preland)

monero-project/monero-site:

• #2222⁷ localization: resolving conflicts (plowsof)
• #2221⁸ merchants: remove sideshift (rottenwheel)
• #2229⁹ press kit: add johnr365 monero timeline link (plowsof)
• #2226¹⁰ press kit: add/link to quick facts 2019 pdf (plowsof)
• #2227¹¹ press kit: add guerilla toolkit github link (plowsof)
• #2223¹² merchants: delist Binance [Discussion] (plowsof)

Closed (3)

monero-project/monero:

• #9123¹³ Ethgr0wth patch 6 (ethgr0wth)
• #9109¹⁴ Copyright: Update to 2024 (github-actions)

monero-project/monero-gui : none

monero-project/monero-site:

• #2218¹⁵ Fix broken link (jorgesumle)

Merged (30)

monero-project/monero:

• #9049¹⁶ wallet: sign_tx: get tx pubkey from extra (tobtoht)
• #9052¹⁷ Fix EAGAIN bug in ZMQ-RPC/ZMQ-PUB (vtnerd)
• #9053¹⁸ Fix EAGAIN bug in ZMQ-RPC/ZMQ-PUB [0.18] (vtnerd)
• #9056¹⁹ gpg_keys: add tobtoht (tobtoht)
• #9059²⁰ MMS: Ignore 2 more API errors thrown by latest PyBitmessage (rbrunner7)
• #9060²¹ workflows: upload macOS binary after name change (selsta)
• #9061²² Add compile-time check for input iterators in ::wire array writing (vtnerd)
• #9072²³ Change std::result_of to auto (vtnerd)
• #9073²⁴ fix merge mining with more than one merge mined chain (moneromooo-monero)
• #9076²⁵ cmake: silence FindPythonInterp warning (tobtoht)
• #9079²⁶ Fix missing checks for IsObject in ZMQ jsonrpc reading (vtnerd)
• #9080²⁷ Fix missing checks for IsObject in ZMQ jsonrpc reading [0.18] (vtnerd)
• #9084²⁸ OpenBSD: node server fix IP localhost by aliasing (selsta)
• #9090²⁹ Cleanup scoped_ptr in src/common/dns_utils.cpp (0xFFFC0000)
• #9103³⁰ storages: add missing return (selsta)
• #9111³¹ workflows: copyright commit author (plowsof)
• #9117³² remove ARCH=”x86-64” from Makefile (woodser)
• #9119³³ gpg_keys: add 0xfffc0000 (0xFFFC0000)
• #9077³⁴ serialization: remove container wrappers and serialize directly (jeffro256)
• #9126³⁵ CMake: only set policy CMP0148 to OLD if version >= 3.27 (jeffro256)
• #9069³⁶ serialization: fix infinite loops and clean up dispatching (jeffro256)
• #9023³⁷ wallet: mitigate statistical dependence for decoy selection within rings (jeffro256)

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #4243³⁸ TxUtils: use regex to check for valid domain (selsta)
• #4245³⁹ cmake: fix deploy by updating libicu version (selsta)
• #4251⁴⁰ DEPLOY: update instructions for Apple Silicon (selsta)
• #4255⁴¹ wizard: add Trezor Safe 3 to hardware wallets (selsta)
• #4260⁴² p2pool: update to v3.10 (SChernykh)
• #4261⁴³ docker: update Qt to 5.15.12 (selsta)
• #4262⁴⁴ Dockerfile: remove no-asm for constant time AES (selsta)

monero-project/monero-site:

• #2220⁴⁵ wallet-generator: files renamed, signed by binaryFate, added zip. (binaryFate)

2 – ISSUES (8, 3:5)

Opened (3)

monero-project/monero:

• #9124⁴⁶ In regtest, generateblocks returns status:BUSY if using –no-sync (meglio)
• #9127⁴⁷ Bug: it’s possible to set –no-zmq and zmq pub / bind ip and ports in Monerod config without having any errors (snrocacorns)

monero-project/monero-gui: none

monero-project/monero-site:

• #2228⁴⁸ monerooutreach: broken links across site (plowsof)

Closed (5)

monero-project/monero:

• #8687⁴⁹ Removing the “trap” of not importing ‘serialization/string.h’ when using ‘binary_archive’ serialization (rbrunner7)
• #8622⁵⁰ ‘make debug’ fails (gus4rs)

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #4227⁵¹ Trezor Safe 3 launch (Hannsek)

monero-project/monero-site:

• #2225⁵² press kit: Guerilla toolkit link offline (plowsof)
• #2224⁵³ press kit: ‘Quick Facts’/outreach page offline (plowsof)

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.

Previous reports are listed in the [dev] section.

-3RA