# Zcash Z3 updates (formerly Zcashd Deprecation)

**URL:** <https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcash-z3-updates-formerly-zcashd-deprecation/48965>\
**Category:** Ecosystem Updates\
**Created:** [October 4, 2024, 11:36pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcash-z3-updates-formerly-zcashd-deprecation/48965 "2024-10-04T23:36:18Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 17, 2026, 7:05pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcash-z3-updates-formerly-zcashd-deprecation/48965/150 "2026-04-17T19:05:50Z")

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## April 17th

It’s been a crazy week. From Brasil I want to thank all the folks from @ZcashBrazil and @vito from Zechub who made me feel at home. Thank you for opening the doors of your beautiful country. The privacy house at IPE Pop-up city is a success thanks to @michaeloff and his team.

### Outreach

Status: paused

Reassessing how to engage with partners so that they can share testing scenarios with us better.

### Zebra

Zebra engineers are preparing a new release and also working hard on optimizations and security hardening by researching bugs with AI tools as the signs of this era demand.

### Zaino (ZingoLabs)

- Status: working in 0.2.1

[Project Board](https://github.com/orgs/zingolabs/projects/19)

Zaino 0.2.1 release candidate is imminent! Merged contributions from Str4d on regtest fixes and they are also documenting new features better so they can be adopted easier by Zallet folks

### Zallet full node wallet

- Status: working towards alpha.4

tracking work on[this repository](https://github.com/zcash/wallet) and collaboration opportunities tracked on [this board](https://github.com/orgs/zcash/projects/18). You can take a look at what’s ahead for the Alpha.4 release [here](https://dagny.co/views/e48cd392-f053-454a-9714-57255c26a598).

ZODL engineers continue working on alpha.4 and they are preparing a new version of the librustzcash crates.

### Block Explorer Support

- Status: Coming soon!

Tracking: [Zaino Continuation · GitHub](https://github.com/orgs/zingolabs/projects/15)

This work is about to be resumed. Zingo folks are asking folks to provide feedback on deprecating [1.23: Add Zcash RPC z\_validateaddress](https://github.com/zingolabs/zaino/issues/219) and moving it into Zallet  
Pending:

- [1.14: Add Zcash RPC gettxoutsetinfo](https://github.com/zingolabs/zaino/issues/210)
- [1.5: Add Zcash RPC getblockhash](https://github.com/zingolabs/zaino/issues/201)
- [1.6: Add Zcash RPC getblockhashes](https://github.com/zingolabs/zaino/issues/202)
- [1.19: Add Zcash RPC getnetworkinfo](https://github.com/zingolabs/zaino/issues/215)

In review:

- [1.23: Add Zcash RPC z\_validateaddress](https://github.com/zingolabs/zaino/issues/219)

Done

- [1.4: Add Zcash RPC getblockdeltas](https://github.com/zingolabs/zaino/issues/200)
- [1.1: Add Zcash RPC getaddressdeltas](https://github.com/zingolabs/zaino/issues/197)
- [1.7: Add Zcash RPC getblockheader](https://github.com/zingolabs/zaino/issues/203)

Thanks for reading!

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