# Any changes for upcoming fork?

**URL:** <https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/any-changes-for-upcoming-fork/31731>\
**Category:** Mining Support\
**Created:** [October 28, 2018, 3:43pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/any-changes-for-upcoming-fork/31731 "2018-10-28T15:43:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![SteveSokolowski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@SteveSokolowski](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/SteveSokolowski)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2018, 3:43pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/any-changes-for-upcoming-fork/31731/1 "2018-10-28T15:43:17Z")

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I’m having difficulty locating documentation describing the changes for mining the ZCash fork that will be occurring in 10 hours. We disabled mining of ZCash because we’re not sure if there will be any changes that cause lost blocks when that upgrade happens.

Is the reason that there is no documentation because there are no changes to the block format? Or, was I just not able to find the documentation?

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**Author:** ![Shawn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/shawn/32/187_2.png) [@Shawn](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/Shawn)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2018, 4:08pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/any-changes-for-upcoming-fork/31731/2 "2018-10-28T16:08:44Z")

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Hi Steve, please have a read through the Sapling upgrade information:

> **[Sapling - Zcash](https://z.cash/upgrade/sapling/)**
>
> What is Sapling? Sapling is a network upgrade that introduces significant efficiency improvements for shielded transactions that will pave the \[…\]

[https://zcash.readthedocs.io/en/latest/rtd\_pages/nu\_dev\_guide.html](https://zcash.readthedocs.io/en/latest/rtd_pages/nu_dev_guide.html)

> <https://github.com/zcash/zips/blob/main/protocol/protocol.pdf>