Zebra 1.8.0 Release
The Zcash Foundation is pleased to announce the release of Zebra 1.8.0. This release includes the following changes and improvements. Given that most wallets have now implemented support for the fees outlined in ZIP-317, we have set a default unpaid actions limit of 0 in Zebra, dropping transactions with any unpaid actions from the mempool […]
Zebra 1.7.0 Release
The Zcash Foundation is pleased to announce the release of Zebra v1.7.0. With this release we have added a number of usability improvements, bug fixes and new features. Zebra now supports Regtest without proof-of-work validation. In order to support regtest network mode in Zebra, we have started to include some functionality to enable the creation […]
Zebra 1.6.1 Release
The Zcash Foundation is pleased to announce the release of Zebra version 1.6.1. This release adds an OpenAPI specification for Zebra’s RPC methods and improves the startup and shutdown logs with information about Zebra’s storage usage and other useful database information, such as column family sizes in a human readable format. With this release we […]
Introducing The Zebra Launcher
The Zebra team has released an alpha version of the Zebra Launcher, which enables Zebra to be installed and run on common operating systems without a command-line interface (CLI) or any prerequisites other than the operating system itself. As of Zebra Launcher v0.0.0-alpha.1, there are now installers for Windows, MacOS, and Debian. The Zebra Launcher […]
Zebra Open API
by Alfredo It was really fun for me to participate in the last Zebra Hackathon Sprint, a 2-week period to be creative, explore new ideas and build some proof of concept projects. This time I worked on an OpenAPI specification for Zebra RPC methods. Zebra OpenAPI Specification In order to provide a documentation resource for Zebra […]
Zebra 1.6.0 Release
The Zcash Foundation is pleased to announce the release of Zebra version 1.6.0. This release exposes the shielded scanning functionality through an initial version of a gRPC server. You can find the documentation outlining how to interact with this gRPC interface in the Zebra Book. Please note that due to this new gRPC server, building […]
Zebra 1.5.2 Release
The Zcash Foundation is pleased to announce the release of Zebra version 1.5.2. This latest version is a hotfix release, to temporarily remove the experimental internal-miner feature introduced in the preceding 1.5.1 release. Following the 1.5.1 release on GitHub, we identified difficulties in publishing the zebra-chain crate to crates.io. Unfortunately, to resolve this challenge, which involves an unpublished dependency, […]
Introducing Blockchain Scanning with Zebra
Zcash Viewing Keys When a Zcash user creates a shielded transaction, they encrypt it to the recipient’s address. Being able to access the data hidden behind the encryption is a necessary condition for the recipient to spend the funds, but it’s not sufficient since the recipient also needs to prove ownership of the spending key […]
Zebra 1.5.0 Release
The Zcash Foundation is pleased to announce the release of Zebra version 1.5.0. This release includes a “Minimum Viable Product” (MVP) implementation of shielded scanning, with a new “zebra-scan” crate and behind an experimental “shielded-scan” feature. This marks the first step towards full support for shielded scanning in Zebra and we’re excited to continue building […]
Zebra 1.4.0 Release
The Zcash Foundation is pleased to announce the release of Zebra version 1.4.0. This release includes support for mining RPC methods in all release builds, bundles the Zcash verification parameters into the zebrad binary, and updates Rust dependencies to match the zcashd 5.7.0 release. Some notable improvements from our previous release include better recovery from […]