--- ID: 1586 post_title: 'New Beta Release: Fixes, Packaging and Launch Preparation' author: Simon Liu post_excerpt: "" layout: post permalink: > https://blog.z.cash/new-beta-release-fixes-packaging-and-launch-preparation/ published: true post_date: 2016-10-17 00:00:00 ---
Today, we deployed the third beta release of the Zcash reference implementation, 1.0.0-rc1, to the testnet. This is the third release of the Zcash Beta Series. The new release includes the following changes [1]:
Note that this release does not reset the beta testnet and continues to uses the beta 2 proving and verify keys. NOTE: It does however make a change to the local block index format that will cause all upgraded nodes to fail to start (because they can’t parse the old block index format). As the error message will say, please start up your node once with the reindex flag after upgrading (ie. ./src/zcashd -reindex ) to resolve this issue.
To follow our progress, watch the GitHub project and join the forum. To get an email announcement when Zcash Sprout is ready, put your email address in here.
[1] | For more specific detail, view our 1.0.0-rc1 release github milestone. |