# April 24, 2020 - Weekly Forum Update **URL:** \ **Category:** Weekly Forum Updates\ **Created:** [April 24, 2020, 8:24pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/april-24-2020-weekly-forum-update/36381 "2020-04-24T20:24:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![elenita](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/elenita/32/14604_2.png) [@elenita](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/elenita)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2020, 8:24pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/april-24-2020-weekly-forum-update/36381/1 "2020-04-24T20:24:09Z")
Hi everyone, here are the updates from this week: - [Release 2.1.2](https://electriccoin.co/blog/new-release-2-1-2/) supports the activation of [Heartwood](https://electriccoin.co/blog/introducing-heartwood/) on testnet, with an activation height of 903800, slated to occur on May 6, 2020. Once the feature selection is finalized for NU4, we will begin the process of picking a codename. - As part of the Heartwood network upgrade, Zcash miners and mining pools will have the option to [mine directly to a shielded coinbase](https://electriccoin.co/blog/mine-to-shielded-coinbase/). - ECC has [new resources and documentation for light clients](https://electriccoin.co/blog/new-zcash-light-client-support-resources-and-documentation/). ECC is also planning on [open-sourcing the zECC wallet](https://electriccoin.co/blog/open-sourcing-zecc-wallet/) by the end of the quarter. - ECC now has a dedicated Documentation PO. Congrats @lindanaeunlee! The goal is to improve documentation across the company and establish a regular doc cadence. This work is critical in order to engage and grow our open-source dev community. - Check out [this thread](https://twitter.com/ZKnowl3dg3/status/1252980182203457536) for other Zcash interop projects including Ren, Thesis, Cosmos and Polkadot. **Mark your calendars,** - Tues, 4/28, [April Zeal Call](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/april-zeal-call-tues-4-28/36316): @nathan will be doing a deepdive on all things Heartwood and @mhluongo will join us to talk more about his company Thesis and his perspectives on Zcash. - Tues, 5/5, [Zcash Gardening club](https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIsc-itqjIsGdD__-b_QiZ6ecvrSsJMRNtf): @nathan is hosting this open monthly meeting for open source contributors to share about their projects and connect. - Mon, 5/11, ECC at [Consensus: Distributed](https://bit.ly/34SgkKe): Join us at 2pm EST. The first panel will cover developer resources to help you build on top of Zcash, the second panel will cover interoperability. Register: [The world's leading event & networking platform](https://bit.ly/34SgkKe). - Tues, 5/19, ECC Livestream: Highlights include our R&D, Engineering, and Growth flight plan, overview of flyclient, viewing keys for 2.1.2, a preview of our upcoming Gitcoin hackathon & an update on community efforts. - Zcash Foundation posted their [quarterly update](https://www.zfnd.org/blog/q1-report-2020/). @hdevalence was featured on [Zero Knowledge podcast](https://t.co/DTXWMB5iiD?amp=1) discussing Zebra, ZF and privacy-preserving contact tracing. - Community Shout Outs - This section celebrates the contributions to Zcash made by folks outside of ECC and Foundation. **Dev Infra Team** - Tested, Signed, and Deployed v2.1.2 - Expanding Q1 Docker container efforts to generate Gitian Signatures; ultimately aid a portion of automated releases in CD - Completed Automation of Smoke Tests - Completed testing of alternative fetch-param script; provides cross platform support for nodes to retrieve param files **Core Team** - Dev fund ZIPs are published ([207](https://zips.z.cash/zip-0207), [214](https://zips.z.cash/zip-0214), [251](https://zips.z.cash/zip-0251)) - Switched to Rust for Equihash validation starting with Heartwood - Making progress on TZEs and Halo research **Security Team** - Automated some defense of company assets - Devised a plan for integrating for Zcashd dependency checks - Opened new internal vuln classification system for comment in [#engineering](https://zcash.slack.com/archives/CDYSSLTFD) **Wallet Team** - Finalization of taddr design and transaction details - iOS full wallet restore - Android and iOS: Basic reorg integration testing, memo tests, test plan for reliability testing - CI/CD process improvements for Android and iOS - Security: starting review of Android and iOS code, darksidewalletd documentation underway **Ecosystem** - [Shielded Ledger support](https://twitter.com/_zondax_/status/1253755648879349760?s=20) is on the way! - [Binance Savings](https://binance.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360042663471) enabled flexible deposits for users to earn 1% yield for holding Zcash on the platform. - [OkEx](https://www.okex.com/support/hc/en-us/articles/360042707251?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=okexperpetualswap-%24zec-usd-&-usdt-perp) listed Zcash perpetual swaps up to 20x leverage. - [Huobi](https://huobiglobal.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/900000670443) listed Zcash Perpetual Swaps up to 75x leverage. **This week in privacy,** [WIRED](https://www.wired.com/story/hacker-apple-safari-webcam-bug/) explains Safari’s pretty glaring vulnerabilities, they’ve since been patched but it’s an interesting read nonetheless. What else has been hacked this week? [Nintendo](https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/24/21234205/nintendo-account-hack-nnid-breach-security-hacking-attempt). The [US Supreme Court announced they will hear a case](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-cybersecurity-202/2020/04/24/the-cybersecurity-202-there-s-finally-a-supreme-court-battle-coming-over-the-nation-s-main-hacking-law/5ea1ade6602ff140c1cc5f51/) this fall on CFAA, the country’s broad “hacking” law. This law has been used to prosecute activists such as Julian Assange and Aaron Schwartz. In crypto news, Coindesk covers [Bitcoin upgrades that could improve privacy](https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoins-future-exactly-how-a-coming-upgrade-could-improve-privacy-and-scaling) and scalability. [Binance](https://decrypt.co/25830/binance-opens-up-p2p-crypto-trading-venezuela) opened up P2P crypto trading in Venezuela. [BraveNewCoin](https://bravenewcoin.com/insights/zcash-price-analysis-transactions-up-while-active-addresses-reach-new-low) published a new analysis on Zcash. That’s it for now. Have a nice weekend y’all. 🤠