This is the v0.18.5.0 release of the Monero software. This recommended release adds SOCKS v5 support, removes UPnP support, and includes a large number of bug fixes.
Some highlights of this release are:
- Add SOCKS v5 support to daemon and wallet
- Daemon: remove UPnP support
- Daemon: fix shutdown hangs
- Daemon: improve exception handling
- Daemon: speed up transaction pool get_complement() for large requests
- Daemon: restrict add_aux_pow RPC
- ZMQ: add restricted RPC mode
- ZMQ: fix txpool transaction reporting for stem-phase transactions
- ZMQ: notify txpool event when stem transaction bumps to fluff
- Wallet: improve proof validation
- Wallet: add option to skip refresh after multisig import
- Wallet: add change address sanity check
- Wallet RPC: add source info to describe_transfer
- Wallet RPC: fix set_daemon allowed SSL fingerprints parsing
- Wallet RPC: restrict sensitive methods in --restricted-rpc mode
- Harden HTTP client authentication handling
- Add LoongArch build support
- Various bug fixes and improvements
For more details navigate to https://www.getmonero.org/2026/05/11/monero-0.18.5.0-released.html