# October 11 2019 - Weekly Update (Engineering) **URL:** \ **Category:** Weekly Forum Updates\ **Created:** [October 11, 2019, 6:16pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/october-11-2019-weekly-update-engineering/35152 "2019-10-11T18:16:46Z")\ **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:** [October 11, 2019, 6:16pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/october-11-2019-weekly-update-engineering/35152/1 "2019-10-11T18:16:46Z")
Happy Fall everyone! 🍂 🍁 🍂 Welcome to our Engineering update. You can expect this Engineering update every other week. If you have questions or feedback, don’t be shy. Drop your thoughts in the comment section below. **General Updates** - ECC Live Stream has been rescheduled for Monday October 28th at 10 am MST. - Don’t forget to check out the [weekly newsletter](https://news.zfnd.org/archive/zcash-foundation-update-september-27-october-7/) from ZCash Foundation. There’s lots of great resources there including [ZCash Protocol Hangouts](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvWpV6-t4HY&feature=youtu.be), [FPGA acceleration project](https://www.zfnd.org/blog/fpga-acceleration-project/), and [ZEC wallet light client updates](https://twitter.com/zecwallet). [The zeal is real](https://twitter.com/jswihart/status/1181588141620092933). 🦓 **[Arborist Team 2](https://github.com/zcash/zcash/projects/23)** This team focuses on the development of the zcashd client, librustzcash and protocol upgrades. Follow along with team discussions in the Community Chat [#public-community-arborist](https://chat.zcashcommunity.com/channel/public-community-arborist) - [Stanford PING and REJECT](https://crypto.stanford.edu/timings/): Researchers at Stanford presented two types of active side-channel attacks against private (a.k.a. shielded) transactions in [Zcash](https://z.cash/). This Security announcement was shared in our last Engineering update. Be sure to upgrade your nodes to Version 2.0.7-3 immediately and discontinue use of older versions. Please note that the issue does not put funds at risk of theft or counterfeiting. - Other updates: **[Development Infrastructure Team](https://github.com/zcash/zcash/projects/20)** The Development Infrastructure team ensures developers have the tools and infrastructure they need. Join this team in the [#dev-infrastructure](https://chat.zcashcommunity.com/channel/dev-infrastructure) chat channel. - Dev-Infra team continues to work on updating/migrating Python2 code to Python3. - We are continuing work on making several major Zcash components Docker compatible. - DevInfra team welcomed a new team member, @benwilson. Welcome! **[Ecosystem Team](https://github.com/zcash/zcash/projects/22)** This team is intended to work on projects that interface with external parties not including the zcashd core client and handles business development in the phases after initial contact by providing technical insight and support. - Take a look at the [Zcash Service Status Dashboard](https://t.co/RNCaG2cvYi?amp=1) from [@prastutkumar](https://twitter.com/prastutkumar) and[ @aviral280996 ](https://twitter.com/aviral280996) - ZCash was well represented at DevCon5 in Osaka. Josh Swihart was on the [Community Interoperability](https://devcon.org/agenda?talk=rec0Cn2m0elmBkVJy) panel along with Vitalik Buterin, Terry Culver, and Jae Kwon. Josh Cincinnatti was part of the [Governance Breakout session](https://devcon.org/agenda?talk=recAbGrGFGCxSB286) with Lane Rettig, Federico Ast, Meltem Demirors, Ryan Selkis, Hudson Jameson and others. - South Korean exchange is reviewing its decision to delist Zcash. Read more [here](https://www.coindesk.com/okex-korea-reviewing-decision-to-delist-privacy-coins-zcash-and-dash). **[Reference Wallet Team 1](https://github.com/zcash/zcash/projects/25)** This teams current charter is to build a Zcash reference wallet. Follow along with team discussions in the Community Chat [#community-wallet-team channel](https://chat.zcashcommunity.com/channel/community-wallet-team). - The wallet team spent a lot of time paying down technical debt and addressing security concerns. This doesn’t sound that exciting, but I’m excited about what we did and what it means. We’ve: - In other wallet-related news, [ZecWallet](https://twitter.com/zecwallet/status/1179117062897070080) lightclient CLI is now available for beta testing on Zcash mainnet. **ECC out and about: Meet the team IRL** - Josh Swihart and Josh Cincinnatti paneled at DevCon5 this week. - Our friends at Least Authority are organizing a workshop on zkSNARKs October 17th in Berlin. [http://zksnarks.eventbrite.com](https://t.co/2BcgmRngC5?amp=1) - Zcon2 dates and location announced: June 22 – 24, 2020, in Lima, Peru! Attendee applications will open in December, 2019.🦙🌄🦙