v2.0.16

Major

• Sprout Groth16 circuit, new shielded transaction type -3
• Community Fund increase to 20% of block rewards
• mandatory network upgrade at mainnet block 455555

Minor

• added Groth16 specific tests
• adjusted tests for CF increase
• mainnet and testnet checkpoint blocks added
• upgrade OpenSSL to 1.1.0j
• no more separate build scripts for Windows and ARM64 builds, now using build.sh

Install

Debian package dependencies:

Depends: libc6 (>= 2.17), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.0), libgomp1 (>= 4.9), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2)

Binaries

NOTE: the bitcore binary contains AddressIndexing, and is intended to be used by explorers.

• Windows and macOS binaries are signed with a valid certificate

See included instructions.txt for Win/Mac command line wallets.

Update 2019-01-08: Zen_Mac_binaries_v2.0.16.zip repackaged, wrong EOL characters were used in fetch-params.sh

v2.0.15

Major

• 51% attack prevention, modification to consensus rules, privately mined blocks are penalized

Minor

• update RPC commands/thread names/messages with new Horizen name
• update Horizen logo
• fix erroneous log messages on wallet rescan
• fix copying of default config file on Windows/MacOS

Install

Debian package dependencies:

Depends: libc6 (>= 2.17), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.0), libgomp1 (>= 4.9), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2)

Binaries

NOTE: the bitcore binary contains AddressIndexing, and is intended to be used by explorers.

• Windows and macOS binaries are signed with a valid certificate

See included instructions.txt for Win/Mac command line wallets.

v2.0.14

Major

• Fork Manager, each past and future mandatory upgrade or hard fork is clearly defined in a separate file
• Mandatory upgrade at block 344700
  • Block reward distribution changed to 10% each for community fund, secure nodes, and super nodes
  • Null Data (OP_RETURN) Transactions, store up to 80 bytes of data in a provably unspendable transaction on chain
• Improvements from Zcash 1.0.14 upstream
  • Low-memory prover reduces JoinSplit creation memory usage from 3 GB to 1.7GB
  • Experimental feature: Payment disclosure with new RPC calls z_getpaymentdisclosure and z_validatepaymentdisclosure
  • Support for incoming viewing keys

Minor

• New build system for macOS ZencashOfficial/zencash-apple, support for Sierra and High Sierra using clang

Install

Debian package dependencies:

Depends: libc6 (>= 2.17), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.0), libgomp1 (>= 4.9), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2)

Binaries

• Windows and macOS binaries now signed with a valid certificate
• macOS support for 10.11 El Capitan dropped, only Sierra and High Sierra are supported

See included instructions.txt for Win/Mac command line wallets.