Monero Dev Activity Report - Week 20 2022: 18 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 (18, 8:4:6)

Opened (8)

monero-project/monero:

• #8333¹ Focus Doxygen documentation (jeffro256)
• #8335² net_ssl: Use EVP API to create EVP_PKEYs when available (jeffro256)
• #8337³ src, epee: fix a couple compiler warnings (selsta)
• #8338⁴ GCC: Suppress -Wstringop-overflow= warnings in external/boost (jeffro256)
• #8340⁵ common: update sha256sum to use OpenSSL 3.0 API, add test cases (selsta)
• #8344⁶ core_rpc_server: new file: rpc_ssl.fingerprint (jeffro256)

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #3924⁷ docker: Add support for Linux arm64 docker builds (zer0conf)
• #3926⁸ Mining: add compile time option to disable p2pool (selsta)

Closed (4)

monero-project/monero:

• #8334⁹ Use EVP_RSA_gen in create_rsa_ssl_certificate and remove dead code (jeffro256)
• #8322¹⁰ Update sha256sum code to comply with OpenSSL 3.0 (jeffro256)
• #8295¹¹ EPEE: Assimilate math_helper.h and document time_helper.h (jeffro256)

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #3904¹² Added Fungibility to introduction (maxqiumax)

Merged (6)

monero-project/monero:

• #8046¹³ wallet: faster value conveyance via five various velocity advances (moneromooo-monero)
• #8266¹⁴ depends: update unbound to 1.15.0 (selsta)
• #8308¹⁵ wallet2: fix a couple unused variable warnings (selsta)
• #8312¹⁶ gitian: add ARM64 Darwin support (hyc)
• #8307¹⁷ Remove src/serialization/list.h (jeffro256)
• #8315¹⁸ Give better error messages when missing SSL files (jeffro256)

monero-project/monero-gui: none

2 - ISSUES (8,6:2)

Opened (6)

monero-project/monero:

• #8341¹⁹ monerod: Exception: boost::wrapexcept<boost::bad_weak_ptr> (jeffro256)
• #8342²⁰ p2pool mining excessive ram usage never reclaims reboots required (tehoblivious)
• #8343²¹ Encourage miners to use environmentally-friendly setup (Kreyren)
• #8345²² Adding Swapzone to the “Swappers” section (MariaSwapzone)
• #8346²³ Suggestion: nodes using –public-node aren’t currently usable by browser-based Monero apps. Let’s fix that. (CryptoGrampy)

monero-project/monero-gui:

• #3925²⁴ Can’t Create Transaction; Not enough money to transfer (elibroftw)

Closed (2)

monero-project/monero:

• #8336²⁵ Where are the default nodes defined // what file are they defined in (Smellyslab)
• #8339²⁶ Can’t create viewwallet on testnet (garth-xmr)

monero-project/monero-gui: 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.

Previous reports are listed in the [dev] section.

-3RA