The Zcash Foundation has recently released Zebra 2.0.0-rc.0, the first release candidate for NU6. This release includes all of the required consensus rules, functionality and tests for Network Upgrade 6. However, it does NOT yet include the NU6 activation height or current protocol version, both of which will be required in order for Zebra to successfully activate NU6 on mainnet. As such, please note that support for this release candidate is expected to conclude prior to the NU6 activation height.
Additionally, this release includes some updates to the getmininginfo RPC method response and two new generate and stop RPC methods, which are valid for regtest networks only. Other updates to the regtest network mode included adding a halving interval to match zcashd as well as a configurable halving interval for custom testnets.
Other notable changes include the addition of Docker Scout for scanning for vulnerabilities in our docker images.
You can see a full copy of all of the included changes in the v2.0.0-rc.0 Release Notes on GitHub.
We are planning to publish a stable 2.0.0 release in the next couple of weeks, which WILL include the NU6 activation heights and should successfully activate NU6 on mainnet sometime in late November.
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