# September 25, 2020 - weekly forum update

**URL:** <https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/september-25-2020-weekly-forum-update/37454>\
**Category:** Weekly Forum Updates\
**Created:** [September 25, 2020, 11:00pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/september-25-2020-weekly-forum-update/37454 "2020-09-25T23:00:37Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 25, 2020, 11:00pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/september-25-2020-weekly-forum-update/37454/1 "2020-09-25T23:00:37Z")

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Hi everyone, here are the updates from this week:

- ICYMI: Here’s a [recording from the ECC Livestream](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCSjN9__mtc&feature=youtu.be&t=307).
- [ECC’s website](https://electriccoin.co/) has a new look. Let us know how you like it!
- Halo got a shoutout from [Nick Spooner](https://twitter.com/_nickspoon/status/1308779192742535169?s=20).
- [ZDA’s Q3 meeting summary](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zda-meeting-summary-9-14/37450) has been posted in the forum.

**Mark your calendars,**

- 10/6 - Gardening Club, registration [link](https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUtcumrpjgqE9yzY8TUG1MPgKENUcaXP-ub)
- 10/7 - Zcash webinar with Blockchain Academy (Brazil), link TBD
- 10/8 - Arborist Call, link
- 10/19 -[ZKP Privacy Conference](https://zkp-privacy-summit.dystopialabs.com/) hosted by Dystopia Labs
- 10/28 - Zcash 4th Birthday 🎉
- 11/18 - Canopy Activation

**Community Shout Outs -** Shout out to Luxor, Autotunafish, covfefe, and Zecprophet for helping update documentation this sprint. Shout out to narodnik for submitting a community PR.

**Documentation:**

- Removed ads from read the docs
- [Zcash mining guide](https://zcash.readthedocs.io/en/latest/rtd_pages/zcash_mining_guide.html) shifted to ASIC advice (shout out to Luxor!)
- Added [canopy ZIPs to the network upgrade guide](https://zcash.readthedocs.io/en/latest/rtd_pages/nu_dev_guide.html#canopy)
- Updated [installation guides to state end of Debian Jessie support](https://zcash.readthedocs.io/en/latest/rtd_pages/Debian-Ubuntu-build.html)
- Added [End of Support policy to the zcashd guide](https://zcash.readthedocs.io/en/latest/rtd_pages/zcashd.html#upgrading)

**DevInfra:**

- IPFS Github status with CID for binary of different platforms (e.g. ARM, Windows, Linux, Mac)
- Initial deploy of Block Explorer in Kubernetes
- New detector node setup documents

**Core:**

- Published [ZIP 321](https://zips.z.cash/zip-0321), Payment Request URIs
- And published several other ZIPs
  - [ZIP 300](https://zips.z.cash/zip-0300), Cross-chain Atomic Transactions
  - [ZIP 304](https://zips.z.cash/zip-0304), Sapling Address Signatures
  - [ZIP 400](https://zips.z.cash/zip-0400), Wallet.dat Format

- Fixed another assertion failure - [#4680](https://github.com/zcash/zcash/issues/4680)
- Completed several refactorings to improve Rust crate usability
- Made great progress on Halo 2 (prelim benchmarking and Sinsemilla hashing algorithm)

**Security:** Time-to-analyze new dependency updates decreased by 80%

**Wallet:**

- iOS: localization complete! (demo), addressed bugs related to iOS 14, memo entries, UI bugs
- Android: migrated librustzcash crates, added ability to change lightwalletd servers, adding encryption libraries to older devices
- Lightwalletd: checkpointing support for lightwalletd, plus huge community interest
- Product: refined and finished (v1) design guide, facilitated translations for ECC app
- Light client working group was kickstarted!