The Zcash Foundation is pleased to announce the release of Zebra 1.9.0. This release includes the necessary changes to activate NU6 on Testnet as well as a number of additional NU6 updates and other improvements.
To support NU6 activation on Testnet, this release of Zebra adds the NU6 network upgrade variant, minimum protocol versions for NU6, current protocol version, and Testnet activation height. It also supports configuring an NU6 activation height and configurable funding streams on Regtest and custom Testnets as well as the implementation of all of the ZIPs relating to future funding streams after the current devfund expires at the next halving. Finally, it updates Zebra’s EoS (End of Support) to ensure that it will not run ahead of the expected activation height of NU6 on Mainnet. This means that there will be at least one other Zebra release before NU6 activates on Mainnet.
This release also includes changes to add a new zebra-scanner binary and functionality to support access to Zebra’s best chain state from another process, and notify clients when Zebra’s best tip changes. All of this work is in support of a replacement to the zcashd built-in wallet and gets us closer to enabling zcashd deprecation.
You can see a full copy of all of the included changes in the v1.9.0 Release Notes on GitHub.
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