Hey everyone! Welcome to another 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
- Wallet:
- 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
- Wallet:
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
