Zcash Development Update

Hey everyone! Welcome to another community forum update. If you have any questions feel free to drop a comment here, or tag me in the Zcash Community Discord @januszgrze#6095.

ECC updates

We welcomed Carter Jernigan full-time as a Principal Android Developer!
ECC will kick off a monthly Twitter Spaces next Tuesday, April 5th, at 4:30pm EDT. The latter half of the call will be a community AMA. Bring your questions!
NU5 activation and Halo Arc release delayed for remediation of consensus bug in testnet. Blog post here.
The Cypherpunk Zero NFTs were airdropped to everyone who purchased the Mighty Jaxx collectible toy. More drops coming soon. Stay tuned.
Paul Brigner will be attending TPI’s “What Does the EO Mean for Crypto Policy?

DevSecOps

Repaired Gitian build issues
Addressed issue with Cloudflare and Github access, which should improve build reliability
Improved security of webhook intercepts from external locations
Implementing Tekton lab curriculum
Continuing transition to Freshdesk for incident/issue management
Began preparations for demonstration of new CI/CD paths

Core

Released zcashd v4.7.0-rc1!
- This has been a huge lift involving many changes to the zcashd wallet and RPCs needed to support Orchard and Unified Addresses / Viewing Keys.
- Kudos to DevSecOps for (extra) exhaustive testing of the RC and helping identify and fix a few key issues!
- Kudos to Core for the incredible amount of work going into the release and NU5 in general!
We’re planning to release v4.7.0 by tomorrow which will fix our currently fractured testnet
Produced a new version of the protocol spec that fixes a type error for Orchard incoming viewing keys, and clarifies consensus rules around coinbase transactions. (zips#594)
Added / updated several tests and performed documentation cleanup for Orchard and Unified Address concepts and terminology (zcash#5752, zcash#4745, zcash#5719)

Wallet

Android:
- Wallet:
  - Wallet Initialization work
  - ZEC payment requests support (inprogress)
  - Send-Flow input validation (in progress)
- SDK:
  - MavenCentral Deployment automation
  - Dependency updates and CI Enhancements
- Onboarding Honza (Jan) from TangibleCodes
iOS:
- Wallet:
  - User Preferences Storage component
  - Keychain secure storage component
  - (internal) Build 0.0.1-17
  - Integrate real Seed from MnemonicSwift
  - Update Badge Icons
  - Send Flow / Request ZEC UI components (in progress)
- SDK:
  - Zcash-light-client-ffi: build librustzcash master branch + integration (in progress)
  - Zcash-light-client-ffi: build librustzcash master branch + integration (in progress)
  - MnemonicSwift: v2.2.3 released
  - ZcashLightClientKit: Released 0.13.0-beta.2.
  - Rustless build
  - Swift Package Manager Support
  - 3 curated Test suites: Offline – Network – Darksidewalletd

In Zcash news, Zcashmedia had their funding approved to create an educational hub for all things Zcash. The Zcash Foundation dropped an awesome website, and ECC & Zcash were featured in an upcoming Flexa Payments commercial. Be on the lookout for the Wizard hat