This is the v0.18.0.0 release of the Monero software. This major release is due to the August 13th network upgrade, which in turn adds support for Bulletproofs+, view tags, ring size increase to 16, and fee changes.
Some highlights of this release are:
- Consensus: add Bulletproofs+ to decrease transactions size and verification time (#[7170](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/7170))
- Consensus: add view tags to outputs to reduce wallet scanning time (#[8061](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/8061))
- Consensus: increase ring size to 16 (#[8178](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/8178))
- Wallet: disable multisig by default, enable with `--enable-multisig-experimental` (#[8328](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/8328))
- Wallet: speed up transaction construction (#[8046](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/8046))
- Wallet: avoid unnecessary DNS call, significantly speed up transaction construction in some cases (#[8408](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/8408))
- Mac ARM64 release binaries (#[8312](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/8312))
- Minor bug fixes and improvements
The complete list of changes is [available on GitHub](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/compare/v0.17.3.2...v0.18.0.0), along with [the source code](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/tree/v0.18.0.0).
# Contributors for this Release
This release was the direct result of 71 people who worked, largely unpaid and altruistically, to put out 420 commits containing 25749 new lines of code. We'd like to thank them very much for their time and effort. In no particular order they are:
- lxop
- dewyatt
- OrvilleRed
- ph4r05
- erciccione
- wirrickelliot
- hMihaiDavid
- hyc
- JoeHCQ1
- reemuru
- drlef
- suriyaa
- ralphmapper
- rating89us
- tmoravec
- TheCharlatan
- timosarkar
- rbrunner7
- hinto.janaiyo
- Xeonacid
- gdmojo
- perfect-daemon
- benevanoff
- xiphon
- cabelo
- codesoap
- donkeydonkey
- IceCruelStuff
- glv2
- gingeropolous
- georgeleege
- rex4539
- fdov
- AkritW
- garth-xmr
- Luxter77
- im
- kayabaNerve
- normoes
- iamamyth
- 00-matt
- mj-xmr
- malbit
- MoneroArbo
- ndorf
- zer-far
- serhack
- sethforprivacy
- SomaticFanatic
- LeoNero
- SamsungGalaxyPlayer
- malinero
- Jkat
- DangerOnTheRanger
- kevinbarbour
- kaythomas0
- lza_menace
- agowa338
- luigi1111
- woodser
- jeffro256
- sarangnoether
- unseddd
- SChernykh
- moneromooo
- loqs
- tobtoht
- UkoeHB
- j-berman
- selsta
- vtnerd
# Download
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