Today we're announcing the release of Zcash 1.0.5, which includes a variety of bugfixes and usability improvements.
Summary of the changes in this release:
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<li>The chain is now fully rescanned when keys are imported that are older than the wallet. (<aclass="reference external"href="https://github.com/zcash/zcash/pull/1978">#1978</a>)</li>
<li>The number of commitments in the note commitment tree is now displayed by <cite>getblockchaininfo</cite>. (<aclass="reference external"href="https://github.com/zcash/zcash/pull/1946">#1946</a>)</li>
<li><cite>zcash.conf</cite> now must exist in order to start zcashd. (<aclass="reference external"href="https://github.com/zcash/zcash/pull/2013">#2013</a>)</li>
<li>Fixed a bug where <cite>z_sendmany</cite> logged incorrect txid fragments when sending from transparent addresses. (<aclass="reference external"href="https://github.com/zcash/zcash/pull/1980">#1980</a>)</li>
<li>We added a restriction to wallet export paths to protect user security. (<aclass="reference external"href="https://github.com/zcash/zcash/pull/2006">#2006</a>)</li>
<li><cite>z_getoperationstatus</cite> is now sorted chronologically. (<aclass="reference external"href="https://github.com/zcash/zcash/pull/2015">#2015</a>)</li>
<li>Messages containing newlines are now rendered properly by the metrics UI. (<aclass="reference external"href="https://github.com/zcash/zcash/pull/1972">#1972</a>)</li>
<li>We added more tools for benchmarking JoinSplit creation. (<aclass="reference external"href="https://github.com/zcash/zcash/pull/1953">#1953</a>)</li>
<li>We now show serialized transaction size in <cite>listtransactions</cite>, more operation details in <cite>z_getoperationstatus</cite>, and the age of the note being spent in <cite>z_sendmany</cite> logging. (<aclass="reference external"href="https://github.com/zcash/zcash/pull/2001">#2001</a>, <aclass="reference external"href="https://github.com/zcash/zcash/pull/1976">#1976</a>, <aclass="reference external"href="https://github.com/zcash/zcash/pull/1977">#1977</a>)</li>
<li>We now instruct users to run <cite>fetch-params</cite> if the parameters could not be found locally. (<aclass="reference external"href="https://github.com/zcash/zcash/pull/1979">#1979</a>)</li>
<li>We handle exceptions better in some situations for more user-friendly error messages. (<aclass="reference external"href="https://github.com/zcash/zcash/pull/1976">#1976</a>)</li>
We're encouraging all users and miners to update to this new version. See our <aclass="reference external"href="https://z.cash/download.html">download</a> page and the <aclass="reference external"href="https://zcash.readthedocs.io/en/latest/rtd_pages/rtd_docs/user_guide.html">1.0 User Guide</a> for more information.
For a more complete list of changes, see our <aclass="reference external"href="https://github.com/zcash/zcash/milestone/49">1.0.5</a> GitHub milestone. To follow our progress, watch <aclass="reference external"href="https://github.com/zcash/zcash/milestones">the GitHub project</a> and <aclass="reference external"href="https://forum.z.cash/">join the forum</a>.