New Release 4.4.0
zcashd can now be configured to optionally expose an HTTP server that acts as a Prometheus scrape endpoint. The server will respond to GET requests on any request path.
April 16, 2021
New Release 4.3.0
The latest release includes traffic improvements, a reworked library and other updates.
February 25, 2021
Bringing Halo 2 to Zcash
As the first implementation of Halo within Zcash, this would serve as a catalyst for Zcash user confidence and scalability, while making the protocol more attractive, faster and less expensive for others to build on.
January 8, 2021
Technical explainer: Halo on Zcash
The Halo 2 zero-knowledge proving system, invented and developed at Electric Coin Co. (ECC), eliminates the trusted setup, reducing the attack surface of the Zcash protocol and improving assurance about ZEC supply integrity.
January 8, 2021
New Release 4.2.0
New release 4.2.0 removes the zcashd dependency upon libsodium for ed25519 signature checks and instead uses the Rust implementation in ed25519-zebra, which has been active for signature verification since the Canopy upgrade.
December 22, 2020
New Release 4.1.1
This is a hotfix release that addresses a performance regression in v4.1.0. It is recommended that either v4.0.0 or this release, v4.1.1, be used for Canopy activation. Optimize release build
November 17, 2020
New Release: 4.1.0
Migration to Clang and static libc++ zcashd now builds its C++ (and C) dependencies entirely with a pinned version of Clang, and statically links libc++ instead of dynamically linking libstdc++.
November 10, 2020
New Release: 4.0.0
Network Upgrade 4: Canopy The 4.0.0 release supports the Canopy activation on mainnet, which will occur at a block height of 1046400 (mid-November), following the targeted EOS halt of our
September 2, 2020
New Release: 3.0.0
Heartwood activation on mainnet This release supports the Heartwood activation on mainnet, which will occur at a block height of 903000 (mid-July), following the targeted EOS halt of our 2.1.2-3
May 27, 2020
New Release: 2.1.2-3
Electric Coin Co. has released zcashd 2.1.2-3, a hotfix that addresses issues identified in the Heartwood activation on testnet. This release fixes a crash on testnet that v2.1.2 nodes are
May 8, 2020
New Release: 2.1.2
Heartwood testnet activation This release supports the activation of Heartwood on testnet, with an activation height of 903800, slated to occur on May 6, 2020. Please upgrade to this release,
April 23, 2020
New Releases: 2.1.1 and hotfix 2.1.1-1
New soft fork On December 31, 2019, Michael Davidson disclosed to us a vulnerability that could be used to cause consensus failure in the network: Nodes would permanently reject blocks
February 7, 2020
