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By Paige Peterson First of all, happy 6 month anniversary, Zcashers!! Going forward, we’re going to try reformatting these developer updates in accordance with the working groups so I’ll be breaking down work into categories reflected in that document. Meta –...

By Paige Peterson At the beginning of the week, we had the first of our regularly scheduled (once a month) meetings about the pre-Sapling hard fork (HF0) in which we narrowed down tickets into a select group using the tag...

By Paige Peterson Let’s start this update with work done in the middle of the week which focused on squashing a DoS vulnerability coming from an update in 1.0.4 to transaction priority handling. The result was a security announcement and hotfix...

By Paige Peterson These updates are now categorized by working groups. A note before diving into things, our detectors have noticed a good amount of nodes still crashing from transactions submitted to the network which trigger the bug fixed in...

By Paige Peterson This week we focused a lot on development process. We did brainstorming around our continued push for open development including deciding to start opening up some of our meetings to interested developers who don’t work for ZECC....

By Paige Peterson This week has been an exciting one on a couple levels. First of all, we’ve been doing a lot of work on getting ready for Monday’s 1.0.8 release. This version, in addition to the issues mentioned in...

By Paige Peterson The beginning of the week saw the timely release of 1.0.7. There was a minor issue in how we executed the release process this time around which resulted in a 1.0.7-1 version that was put out later...

By Paige Peterson This week was focused on 1.0.7 ticket triage, development and review. Some of the work done so far includes removing QT code from client (inherited from upstream Bitcoin) (PR 1636), a test for nodes when prioritizing transactions (PR...