Hello everyone,
To make development progress easier to follow and keep all updates in one place, this thread will serve as a central log for monthly development reports. Each month, contributors involved in the project can post a summary of completed work.
Monthly updates will be added as replies to this thread.
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A brief overview of the pull requests I reviewed, created, and contributed to in the following repositories:
mimblewimble/grin-wallet
mimblewimble/grin
Reviewed & Merged
#748 - Save last scanned block info for wallet scanning
Reviewed & Merged
#3836 - tui: show server initialization status and error#3825 - Migrate from lmdb-zero to heed#3843 - Change default IP address for P2PConfig to IPv6#3834 - Update Rust edition to 2021
Created & Merged
#3846 - Add DNS Seeder fountainoffairfortune#3844 - Snap addition#3840 - Clarify the blinding factor range proof explanation and include remaining typo fixes#3839 - Telegram GGC channel#3833 - docs: update contributing process#3832 - ci: staging docker build#3831 - Test staging PR permissions#3829 - Include git information in Docker builds and display git reference in version output
Created
#3847 - Add Telegram notifications for GitHub workflows#3835 - Improve PIHD sync and PIBD segment handling
Built a Docker-based test farm using Docker, Grafana, and Grin++/Grinffindor for testing and monitoring
grin-wallet (Review)
#750 - Replace tor process with arti client
grin
#3847 - Add Telegram notifications for GitHub workflows#3835 - Improve PIHD sync and PIBD segment handling
grin++
General
Review and work through open issues
Continue testing, reviewing, and maintaining the Grin ecosystem
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Summary - May - early June 2026
A brief overview of the pull requests I reviewed, created, and contributed to in the following repositories:
mimblewimble/grin-wallet
mimblewimble/grin
Updated
#748 - Save last scanned block info for wallet scanning
Created
Tested
#754 - Update contracts to current staging
Updated
Created
#3829 - Include git info into docker build, show git ref at version
#3832 - ci: staging docker build
#3834 - Update Rust edition to 2021
#3836 - tui: show server initialization status and error
#3851 - Do not use workspace for submodules
Tested & Reviewed
#3820 - Optimize PMMR segments to only include hashes at pruning boundaries
#3835 - Improve PIHD sync and PIBD segment handling
#3844 - Snap addition
#3849 - propagate lmdb iterator page errors
#3850 - PIBD: bound segment decoding allocations
Grim: ci macos runner, update grin submodules, tx repost fix, some UI fixes.
10 Likes
Impressive work @wiesche and @ardocrat ! Keep it up !
8 Likes
A brief overview of the pull requests I reviewed, created, and contributed to in the following repositories:
mimblewimble/grin-wallet
Reviewed & Merged
#748 - Save last scanned block info for wallet scanning#750 - Integrated Tor arti Client#755 - Update lmdb#758 - Node submodules#762 - Global Tor client state#763 - Optimize tor sync flow
Reviewed
#754 - Update contracts to current staging + fix #729
Reviewed & Merged
#3836 - tui: show server initialization status and error#3825 - Migrate from lmdb-zero to heed#3823 - PIBD peers fix#3851 - Do not use workspace for submodules#3860 - LMDB resize fixes#3868 - Fix TUI server startup shutdown handling
Created & Merged
#3849 - propagate lmdb iterator page errors#3861 - Validate bitmap segment indices on decode#3862 - Improve seedcheck diagnostics and Windows cleanup#3863 - add dns seeder#3866 - Fix pool fuzz build#3875 - Harden PIBD segment retry and recovery#3877 - Improve macOS TUI support with crossterm backend#3878 - Notify Telegram on merged pull requests#3879 - add PIHD header segment protocol#3880 - avoid panic on invalid config migration
Created
#3881 - Create API secrets at configured paths#3882 - Implement PIHD header sync
Reviewed
#3820 - Optimize PMMR segments to only include hashes at pruning boundaries
Continue PIHD/PIBD implementation and testing
10 Likes
Summary - June - early July 2026
A brief overview of the pull requests I reviewed, created, and contributed to in the following repositories:
mimblewimble/grin-wallet
mimblewimble/grin
Updated
Created
#762 - Global Tor client state
#765 - Connection timeout
#768 - Update deps
#769 - Global config instance
Tested
#754 - Update contracts to current staging
Updated
Created
#3860 - LMDB resize fixes
#3864 - Allow running multiple nodes from single IP
#3865 - Optimize LMDB migration size check
#3883 - Update API dependencies
#3884 - Fuzz build fix
#3885 - Fix tests using rustls
Tested & Reviewed
#3820 - Optimize PMMR segments to only include hashes at pruning boundaries
#3835 - Improve PIHD sync and PIBD segment handling
#3861 - Validate bitmap segment indices on decode
#3862 - Improve seedcheck diagnostics and Windows cleanup
#3863 - Add dns seeder
#3866 - Fix pool fuzz build
#3875 - Harden PIBD segment retry and recovery
#3877 - Improve macOS TUI support with crossterm backend
#3879 - Add PIHD header segment protocol
#3880 - Avoid panic on invalid config migration
#3881 - Create API secrets at configured paths
#3882 - Implement PIHD header sync
#3904 - docs: accurate input/output linking in grin4bitcoiners.md
#3905 - Migrate TUI from cursive to ratatui
Grim: optimize Tor, ipv6 setup for APIs, encrypt Slatepack for invoice with address, finalize over Tor, fix i18n for Chinese.
9 Likes
A brief overview of the pull requests I reviewed, created, and contributed to in the following repositories:
mimblewimble/grin-wallet
mimblewimble/grin
mimblewimble/mwixnet
Reviewed & Merged
#765 - Connection timeout#768 - Update deps#769 - Global config instance#773 - Wrong Slatepack address fix#779 - Use native TLS for client
Created & Merged
#774 - Bump lodash from 4.17.21 to 4.18.1#781 - Expose Mwixnet onion APIs for external consumers
Created
#777 - Update jayson and uuid#778 - RFC: Explore running a node and wallet in the same process#783 - Mwixnet wallet support
Reviewed
#754 - Update contracts to current staging + fix #729 #771 - Add interactive TUI mode for grin-wallet#772 - Revive node and wallet multi-process integration suite#780 - Optimize outputs scan and selection
Reviewed & Merged
#3864 - Compare peer ports to allow multiple nodes from a single IP#3883 - Update API dependencies#3884 - Fuzz build fix#3885 - Fix tests using rustls#3886 - Add unit tests for the stratum server module#3911 - Use Tokio channel for REST shutdown signal#3912 - Install rustls provider at a single place#3914 - Keep preferred peers when enough outbound peers are connected#3917 - REST address bind fix#3920 - Better initialization of global variables
Created & Merged
#3881 - Create API secrets at configured paths#3882 - Implement PIHD header sync#3913 - Show node runtime in status view
Reviewed
#3876 - Refactor stratum server leak handling#3887 - Rewrite pool documentation for the current txpool/stempool design#3888 - Clean old txhashset snapshot archives#3889 - Stop stratum TCP connection leaks under reconnect load#3890 - Keep Node API responsive during txhashset creation#3891 - Claim state sync requests with compare_exchange#3892 - Throttle chain compaction with a wall-clock interval#3893 - Fall back to defaults for missing configuration keys#3894 - Improve readiness reporting while the node is syncing#3895 - Abort chain compaction cleanly on shutdown#3896 - Handle clock skew with FutureTimeLimit#3897 - Expose stratum mining statistics through the Owner API#3898 - Update peer difficulty on header and block receipt#3899 - Cache packed proof nonces for cheaper header and block hashing#3900 - Rebroadcast transactions recovered from the reorg cache#3901 - Prune dead stratum workers#3902 - Bound MerkleProof path length during deserialization#3903 - Wait for P2P send-buffer space on request responses#3905 - Migrate the TUI from cursive to ratatui#3906 - Speed up chain compaction and harden PIBD validation#3907 - Add optional TLS for P2P connections#3908 - Gracefully handle out-of-disk-space failures
Created
#34 - Restore compatibility with Grin staging
Completed and merged the PIHD header synchronization implementation
Started integrating Mwixnet support into grin-wallet
Reviewed performance, storage, recovery, TUI, and API changes
Continued reviewing and working through open issues
8 Likes
A brief overview of the pull requests I reviewed, created, and contributed to in the following repositories:
mimblewimble/grin-wallet
mimblewimble/grin
mimblewimble/mwixnet
Updated
#768 - Update dependencies#769 - Global configuration instance
Created
#773 - Wrong Slatepack address fix#779 - Use native TLS for client#780 - Optimize outputs scan and selection#782 - Make updater apis public#784 - Release 5.5.0#785 - Fix Github CI MacOS build
Reviewed
#771 - Add interactive TUI mode#774 - Bump lodash from 4.17.21 to 4.18.1#777 - Update jayson and uuid#778 - RFC: Explore running a node and wallet in the same process#783 - Mwixnet wallet support
Created
#3911 - Use Tokio channel for REST shutdown signal#3912 - Install rustls provider at a single place#3914 - Keep preferred peers when enough outbound peers are connected#3917 - REST address bind fix#3919 - Fix peers monitor log message and prevent underflow#3920 - Better initialization of global variables#3922 - Get read limit from reader#3924 - Release 5.5.1
Tested & Reviewed
#3820 - Optimize PMMR segments to only include hashes at pruning boundaries#3876 - Refactor stratum server leak handling#3886 - Add unit tests for the stratum server module#3889 - Stop stratum TCP connection leaks under reconnect load#3892 - Throttle chain compaction with a wall-clock interval#3895 - Abort chain compaction cleanly on shutdown#3905 - Migrate the TUI from cursive to ratatui#3906 - Speed up chain compaction and harden PIBD validation#3907 - Add optional TLS for P2P connections#3908 - Gracefully handle out-of-disk-space failures#3913 - Show node runtime in status view#3915 - Make the sparse PIBD segment optimization safe to apply
Reviewed
#34 - Restore compatibility with Grin staging
Updated commons dependencies to fix possible vulnerabilities
Fixed an issue to send big amount from grin-wallet optimizing outputs sync speed
Created stable release for Grim GUI adding last changes from staging branches
Prepared release 5.5.0 for wallet and 5.5.1 for node
Started multisig reviewing AI suggestion as example
Took vacation till 1st September.
9 Likes
wiesche
September 1, 2026, 10:09am
9
A brief overview of the pull requests I reviewed, created, and continued working on in the following repositories:
mimblewimble/grin-wallet
mimblewimble/grin
mimblewimble/mwixnet
meilisearch/lmdb
Reviewed & Merged
#780 - Optimize outputs scan and selection#782 - Make updater APIs public
Created & Merged
#777 - Update jayson and uuid
Created
#787 - Centralize Grin workspace dependencies#793 - Support kernel features when creating slates#795 - Fix transaction filter#797 - Handle unavailable terminal colors#798 - Reject invalid invoice locking#799 - Reject zero send amounts#800 - Clarify BIP32 derivation paths#801 - Avoid empty wallet seeds#802 - Add confirmed transaction height#804 - Use current header version in new slates#805 - Unpack plain Slatepacks without password#806 - Add multi-OS builds#807 - Reject invoice slates in receive#808 - Display Slatepack addresses
Continued Development
#783 - Mwixnet wallet support
Reviewed & Merged
Created
#3928 - Add multi-OS builds#3932 - Fix PIBD resume stall with newer archive target#3934 - Refresh PIBD test fixtures
Continued Development
#34 - Restore compatibility with Grin staging
Created
#5 - Fix stale mappings on OpenBSD
Added portable Linux musl, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD build and release workflows for Grin and grin-wallet
Setup VMs for building, testing, and running the new platform binaries
synchronization tests on NixOS, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD
Investigated OpenBSD LMDB mapping consistency and performance problems
7 Likes
BOBO
September 1, 2026, 3:28pm
10
Thank you.Gate.io , and Grinâs price keep falling. just because I often come to this forum,I know that some people like CobragrinăwiescheăwaynegeorgeăAnynomous ătrabăardocratăsyntaxjakăbrugesăNeo-Geoăgig and many other people silence in the forum, I think if there are some people here to contribute for this project, that it is still a good choice to mine or buy the grin coin.
6 Likes
