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By Paige Peterson Following the pattern of the last several weeks, engineering has been heavily focused on implementing the code for Overwinter into the upcoming 1.0.15 release. We’ve been simultaneously updating the ZIP drafts that specify the changes to Zcash that Overwinter introduces...

By Paige Peterson 1.0.15 release & Overwinter This week we continued onwards with the 1.0.15 release which includes Overwinter specification and implementation. While Overwinter implementation is the priority, we hope for the release to address other issues as well (all of which...

By Paige Peterson 1.0.15 release & Overwinter This week we continued some of the final steps for fully specifying Overwinter (AKA network upgrade 0/”NU0”). You might notice in the release planning project that there is a specification column still designated to 1.0.14 which...

By Paige Peterson Hard to believe it’s been a year since we started these updates! So much has happened since our first official dev update on January 13th last year. Feel free to poke around all of the dev updates we’ve published so far...

By Paige Peterson This week we continued many of the projects highlighted in the past couple of updates (1,2) so I won’t reiterate the details and keep this a short one. These projects include Overwinter specification, 1.0.14 code review and...

By Paige Peterson Release We progressed more on issues targeted for the 1.0.14 release including testing and review. There’s a bunch of candidates to go into the release including experimental features like payment offloading and viewing keys but as with previous releases, we tend to load...

By Paige Peterson Thanks for your patience while most of us took a couple of days off last week to spend time with family for Thanksgiving. Releases Last Monday, we announced our v1.0.13 release. This versions includes a lot of great...

By Paige Peterson DevCon3 & Zcash family gathering Before diving into the recap of engineering work, I’d like to share that after our successful participation in DevCon3 last week, we had an internal Zcash family gathering at a nearby location....

by Paige Peterson Release This week we focused on a lot of the final reviews for next week’s 1.0.12 release. The plan according to our release cycle was to have a release candidate out at the beginning of the week...

By Paige Peterson Release We had a sync-up on the 1.0.12 release at the beginning of the week to check on the status and requirements for the coming weeks. While we anticipate the RC date (upcoming Monday) could slip by a day,...