--- layout: post title: "Monero 0.18.0.0 'Fluorine Fermi' released" summary: Major release containing support for the August 13th network upgrade. tags: [releases] author: selsta image: /blog/assets/2022-07-19-monero-0.18.0.0-released/fluorine-fermi.png ---
# Overview 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: fee changes, adjusted dynamic block weight algorithm (#[7819](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/7819)) - Wallet: multisig security fixes (#[8149](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/8149), #[8220](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/8220), #[8432](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/8432)) - 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)) - Wallet: avoid hitting restricted /gettransactions RPC limit (#[8388](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/8388)) - Wallet: decrease the amount of data exchanged for output export (#[8179](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/8179)) - Wallet: fix spurious reorg detection with untrusted nodes (#[8331](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/8331)) - Wallet: attempt to carve the fee from a partial payment early (#[7342](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/7342)) - Wallet: try empty passphrase first when using Trezor (#[7793](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/7793)) - Wallet: add new `scan_tx` command to scan for a list of transaction ids (#[7312](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/7312)) - Wallet: add option to display wallet name, network mode to inactivity lock (#[7153](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/7153)) - Wallet: add option for exporting tx keys (#[8180](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/8180)) - Daemon: connection code rewrite, improve connectivity with SSL enabled (#[8426](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/8426)) - Daemon: Tor / I2P tx-proxy connectivity fixes (#[8324](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/8324), #[8330](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/8330)) - Daemon: fix a bug that causes transactions to not get re-relayed (#[8326](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/8326)) - Daemon: improve cryptonote (block and tx) binary read performance (#[7661](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/7661)) - Daemon: store RPC SSL key/cert for consistent authentication between runs (#[7366](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/7366)) - Daemon: add support for storing database on a raw device/partition (#[7774](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/7774)) - Daemon: add --max-connections-per-ip daemon option (#[6877](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/6877)) - Daemon: full tx revalidation on fork boundaries (#[7169](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/7169)) - Daemon: add proxy configuration support for bootstrap daemon (#[7326](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/7326)) - RPC: fix `describe_transfer` for multiple transactions in a txset (#[7767](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/7767)) - RPC: prevent `--password-file` from being used with `--wallet-dir` (#[7823](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/7823)) - RPC: send confirmations in `get_transactions` result (#[7662](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/7662)) - RPC: support regex for tags in `get_accounts` (#[8215](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/8215)) - Optimized keccak implementation (#[8262](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/8262)) - 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 The new binaries can be downloaded from the [Downloads page]({{ site.baseurl }}/downloads/#cli) or from the direct links below. - [Windows, 64-bit](https://downloads.getmonero.org/cli/monero-win-x64-v0.18.0.0.zip) - [Windows, 32-bit](https://downloads.getmonero.org/cli/monero-win-x86-v0.18.0.0.zip) - [macOS, Intel](https://downloads.getmonero.org/cli/monero-mac-x64-v0.18.0.0.tar.bz2) - [macOS, ARM](https://downloads.getmonero.org/cli/monero-mac-armv8-v0.18.0.0.tar.bz2) - [Linux, 64-bit](https://downloads.getmonero.org/cli/monero-linux-x64-v0.18.0.0.tar.bz2) - [Linux, 32-bit](https://downloads.getmonero.org/cli/monero-linux-x86-v0.18.0.0.tar.bz2) - [Linux, armv7](https://downloads.getmonero.org/cli/monero-linux-armv7-v0.18.0.0.tar.bz2) - [Linux, armv8](https://downloads.getmonero.org/cli/monero-linux-armv8-v0.18.0.0.tar.bz2) - [Android, armv7](https://downloads.getmonero.org/cli/monero-android-armv7-v0.18.0.0.tar.bz2) - [Android, armv8](https://downloads.getmonero.org/cli/monero-android-armv8-v0.18.0.0.tar.bz2) - [FreeBSD, 64-bit](https://downloads.getmonero.org/cli/monero-freebsd-x64-v0.18.0.0.tar.bz2) # Hashes If you would like to verify that you have downloaded the correct file, please use the following SHA256 hashes: ``` monero-win-x64-v0.18.0.0.zip, 0b94088db62d0ded1d62d02a631b93978984acce337e01a802edd87e521dfcd1 monero-win-x86-v0.18.0.0.zip, d55e86e1434a7e1cebd6931d21063e82c25a7126ddad8704f15501bb9a6e64a4 monero-mac-x64-v0.18.0.0.tar.bz2, 6278a16ec64e2f261c2023c7be9bf904627bec58f8e4237b609eb4c842d9ff68 monero-mac-armv8-v0.18.0.0.tar.bz2, 5f2261fe821e0fe88c193ad6251e68aeb7639e9b529952df823706d424a513d7 monero-linux-x64-v0.18.0.0.tar.bz2, 74c440aa1e38a41ded0c4844b50f094146170ef83f1bd79d7e23d0d69b589faf monero-linux-x86-v0.18.0.0.tar.bz2, 14f8e658750b9301de3e4923355adf4bdfb33348d905b74a02191fa8147c247d monero-linux-armv8-v0.18.0.0.tar.bz2, 15cf4db8810d39104dbc230a985c7819ee96f9a7264d3f65e012b4bc36dc9f40 monero-linux-armv7-v0.18.0.0.tar.bz2, 9af9842b6725f070e568b7bbf02277e6da2ae7a5a544b4b214c60125bab5c93b monero-android-armv8-v0.18.0.0.tar.bz2, 2656f968293b32cccf9daed36976e9331386950ad291f10f8061fc7bc87f8508 monero-android-armv7-v0.18.0.0.tar.bz2, 8c6bb7df79e350275252967f08461eda6dfcd161c0d898722af467efa114f6d6 monero-freebsd-x64-v0.18.0.0.tar.bz2, f556259345ac6e5c95421156693ec5011914355ebdc7d0d1bb97a0e6cdb29b5a ``` A GPG-signed list of the hashes is at [https://www.getmonero.org/downloads/hashes.txt]({{ site.baseurl_root }}/downloads/hashes.txt) and should be treated as canonical, with the signature checked against the appropriate GPG key in the source code (in /utils/gpg_keys). To ensure that the files you download are those originally posted by the maintainers, you should both check that the hashes of your files match those on the signed list, and that the signature on the list is valid. Two guides are available to guide you through the verification process: [Verify binaries on Windows (beginner)]({{ site.baseurl }}/resources/user-guides/verification-windows-beginner.html) and [Verify binaries on Linux, Mac, or Windows command line (advanced)]({{ site.baseurl }}/resources/user-guides/verification-allos-advanced.html).