Zebra 2.4.2 Release

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Hi everyone,

We are pleased to announce the release of Zebra 2.4.2.

You can find this latest release on Github, Dockerhub and crates.io.

Please try out this latest release and let us know if you find any issues or have any feature requests by opening issues on the Zcash Foundation Github, or by writing to us here on the forum.

Please note the following breaking changes in this release:

  1. A significant database upgrade that will automatically move your existing database from the v26/ folder to a new v27/ folder
  2. The ldb checkpoint tool is no longer supported and will corrupt databases generated or touched by Zebra 2.4.0 or later releases.
  3. The debug_like_zcashd config option for mining has been removed.
  4. The cm_u field byte order has been fixed in the getrawtransaction and getblock responses.
  5. We’ve removed the zebra-scan and zebra-grpc crates as they are no longer supported

There was also an issue with Zebra 2.4.0. For more details see the forum post.

You can find more details about what is included with this release in the release notes on GitHub and the release blog post.

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Note that we also just released 2.5.0. While we’re still preparing the official announcement, note that if you run a testnet node you need to update to 2.5.0 ASAP.

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Is there a good writeup/tutorial on how to setup zebrad + lightwalletd out there? I am especially interested in running everything via tor.

The zebrad config is much different from zcashd

From the docs, optional tor feature is mentioned under install.

But no mention of tor for the zebrad.toml config.

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This is a good guide

Full support for ToR (Arti) is still pending

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The overall setup is described here Lightwalletd - The Zebra Book

But there is not explicit support for tor yet.

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Tnx, great guide, just the version tag is outdated, got it running and syncing now.

I tested out just a normal tor proxy setup using tor and iptables, so all the traffic from the server, including zebrad goes through tor.

Hope to see tor get implemented soon to lightwalletd and zashi. The recommended setup with a letsencrypt just hurts my soul, considering its a privacy coin :sweat_smile: