Category: News

By Paige Peterson This is our fortnightly community and communications update, for the latest update on the engineering front, check out last week’s update. From the blog… Just after the last Community and Comms update on June 15th, we made public our decision to...

By Paige Peterson Reminder that Overwinter activation is set for this Monday, June 25th. If you run a Zcash node, make sure you’re on 1.1.0 or later. Download the latest version of zcashd and check out the new user guidewhile your at it. This...

By Paige Peterson This week’s update will be based on the various engineering teams first sprint. We’re tracking each team’s progress in Github projects so you can see a more detailed view of what they’re tackling each two-week sprint and what they...

  By Paige Peterson Releases & upgrades We continued our work reviewing and testing code for the upcoming release and has resulted in several closed issues and merged pull requests. The next release is planned for April 9th. We added a...

By Paige Peterson Releases & Upgrades Well, Overwinter activated on testnet this week and so far so good. We’re working on updating the testnet block explorer that we maintain to work with the change in transaction format introduced by the...

By Paige Peterson Releases & Upgrades This week several of our engineers worked together on setting up a pre-testnet Overwinter activation test network. The idea here is to have a better idea of the tests we’ll need and any tweaks...

By Paige Peterson 1.0.15 & Overwinter We finally got 1.0.15 out the door! Here’s the release announcement which details the changes in this release. It mostly focuses on implementing Overwinter code and an activation height for testnet (207500) but also includes a...

By Paige Peterson 1.0.15, 1.1.0 & Overwinter So as you probably noticed, we’ve further delayed the release of 1.0.15. New target is Monday, February 26th. We needed some extra time fixing up Overwinter related PRs before the RC. You can...

By Paige Peterson 1.0.15/Overwinter We decided to delay the 1.0.15 release to Monday (Feb 19) to allow the engineers time for sufficient review and final touching up of the outstanding Overwinter PRs. As a formality, we’ll still be putting out a release candidate...

By Paige Peterson 1.0.15 Final reviews of pull requests for the 1.0.15 release are coming to a close. Overwinter ZIP drafts have also had some final editing and review (but are still open for review from others in the community, especially third-party services who...