Today’s release represents another baby step toward our goal of making Zashi an easy-to-use, all-in-one user interface for securely storing, spending, and sending ZEC. We’re excited to deliver currency conversion
zcashd 5.9.0 is a maintenance release that updates dependencies and sets a new end-of-service height to ensure continuity of services. (End-of-service information is available here.) All users are encouraged to
zcashd 5.8.0 is a maintenance release that updates dependencies and sets a new end-of-service height to ensure continuity of services.
This post details ECC’s motivations, challenges, and accomplishments with regard to zcashd Network Upgrade 5 (NU5) and the sandblasting attack.
Release 5.6.0 introduces the functionality necessary for light wallets to access spendable funds without fully scanning the blockchain. This is a critical component in the path to exiting emergency mode
Release 5.5.0 introduces a number of bug fixes and changes to the underlying libraries that support Zcash. Much of this work lays the foundation for the fund availability features coming with the next release.
Electric Coin Co. (ECC) has been working since June to resolve Zcash wallet performance issues that are affecting users of third-party apps Edge, Nighthawk, and Unstoppable.* All three of these mobile wallets utilize the ECC SDK.Our engineers have made progress, however, work remains — including further updates to zcashd, lightwalletd, the ECC wallet SDKs, and the ECC prototype wallet — to fully restore good user experience in the impacted apps.
NU5, the first major upgrade since November 2020, includes the launch of the Orchard shielded payment protocol, utilizing the Halo proving system to remove reliance on complex setup ceremonies.
The 5.0.0 release supports NU5 activation on mainnet, which will occur at a block height of 1687104 (May 31st), following the targeted EOS halt of our 4.6.0-2 and 4.7.0 releases on May 16th. Release binaries will be available later today and instructions on how to install can be found on our download site.
4.6.0-2 is primarily a bugfix release that also bumps the End-of-Support height to May 16th. It backports bugfixes from v4.7.0-rc1.
During the course of testing NU5, a consensus bug emerged that caused the testnet chain to fork. The ECC Core team found it quickly and subsequently identified and implemented a
