Category: News

By Paige Peterson 1.0.15 and Overwinter We continued focus on Overwinter implementation to get ready for setting the activation height on testnet at the 1.0.15 release. The tickets relevant to Overwinter are in the NU0 project. Many of the pull requests...

By Paige Peterson 1.0.14, Overwinter & Sapling A lot of our engineering effort has been focused on Overwinter, the first Zcash network upgrade slated for activation June of 2018. A milestone for the 1.0.14 release is to fully specify Overwinter so that code development...

By Paige Peterson Release We’ve decided to commit to a 1 week delay for the upcoming release which sets it to come out on Monday, Nov. 13. Pushing the release back was something we were considering due to conflict with...

By Paige Peterson Release This past week we continued merging dev infrastructure related improvements for the upcoming 1.0.13 release. It’s worth putting out a forewarning now that the scheduled 1.0.13 release date is likely to be pushed back due to...

By Paige Peterson Release This week we continued working on writing and reviewing pull requests for the 1.0.13 release. There was focus on infrastructure components such as migrating upstream’s MiniNode support (PR 2533), builder improvements (PR 2648), benchmarks for listunspent (PR 2650), new driver...

By Paige Peterson Release We’ve already started moving on the 1.0.13 release this week with reviewing some pull requests that have been sitting in our queue for more appropriate timing. We’re really excited about this release because it’s the first release not...

By Paige Peterson This is going to be a short update since most of the engineering work done this week had to do with the RC and official release. Also, happy Crypto is Currency day! Releases While a few days past...

By Paige Peterson Sapling This week we had another meeting about Sapling progress. We discussed the work being done to benchmark the Sapling cryptography improvements and are very excited to announce them. In a previous update, I alluded to such...

By Paige Peterson Releases This week we completed generating a bunch of test data that will aid us with some benchmarks we plan to use to help diagnose wallet performance issues. We’ve tested these benchmarks in our dev-ci infrastructure with...

by Paige Peterson Since I missed last week’s dev update, this week will overview work from previous 2 weeks. 1.0.11 Release Various issues for the upcoming 1.0.11 release have progressed including adding a field to listunspentoutput to show whether the UTXO is a...