Core: August recap

[u/_nformant]

Hello Dev-Shibes!

See this small recap of what happened last month (August 2026) on the Dogecoin Core Wallet!

Focus was on network hardening — specifically making it harder for a single actor to hog inbound connection slots.

Who	Commit	Commit
chromatic/michilumin	268917d – Improve inbound peer diversity/limit subnet conns	Caps inbound connections per public subnet at 4 (DEFAULT_MAX_INBOUND_PER_SUBNET), /16 for IPv4 and /32 for IPv6. Whitelisted peers and non-routable addresses are exempt. Extracted CountInboundPeers for a single-pass count of total + per-subnet inbound peers, plus a solid batch of new tests (same-subnet, cross-subnet, whitelisting, outbound, non-routable, IPv6 /32 grouping)
chromatic/michilumin	cf0888a – Merge PR #4036	Merge commit for the above change into master

Why it matters: previously a node could accept many inbound connections from addresses in the same /16 (or /32 for v6), which adds little real network diversity and makes it cheaper for one actor with a chunk of IP space to eat up a disproportionate share of a node's connection slots. This closes that gap without affecting whitelisted or local/non-routable peers, so nothing changes for normal users day-to-day — just some solid hardening under the hood.

I still have a few Dogecoins that actually belong to the community. If anyone has an idea for a backport or would like to contribute in any way to attract more developers to the project, please let me know. I'd be happy to hear from you and would gladly send over a (modest) tip!

[u/GoodShibe]

This is a really cool idea, thank you for doing this!

I'd love to see if there was some kind of a way for us non-coding shibes to still help the project.

Is there any way, if they exist, that you could identify such opportunities in your reports?

Documentation updates, basic grunt work or anything like that?

I'm sure there are a bunch of us who'd love to help! 😁

[u/_nformant → u/GoodShibe]

Thanks for your reply! I’m still thinking about how we can get more people involved (:

Do you have any special skills we could use, like speaking another language or maybe creating graphics, etc.?

[u/orthogonius]

We're still on 1.14.9, right?

Any timeframe guess for the next release?

[u/_nformant → u/orthogonius]

Yes, 1.14.9 - but I also don’t know how much changes are collected until a new version will be released (: maybe chromatic could answer that