Zcash Development Update – Zcash Community

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 

Due to the addition of a monthly Twitter Spaces, we will be making forum posts once a month.

As mentioned, if there’s any questions, let me know.

-Ian

This post originally published on the community forum