zend v5.0.0-rc1

5.0.0-rc1 is a Testnet pre-release candidate in anticipation of the release of ZEN 5.0.0 to Mainnet later this January 2024.

A hard fork is going to activate on Testnet at block #1404200, on January 16th 2024 at approximately 2:00 PM UTC.

Important Notes

PR #628 implements ZenIP-42207, which introduces a hard fork fully disabling the shielded pool from zend. After the hard fork, it will be no longer possible to submit and process transactions involving shielded (z-) addresses, thus transparent-to-shielded, shielded-to-shielded and shielded-to-transparent transactions will be completely disallowed.
PR #628 as a conseqence of ZenIP-42207, the following RPC commands
- z_sendmany
- z_mergetoaddress
have been partially disabled, as after the hard fork they are only allowed to submit transparent-to-transparent transactions (check inline documentation for additional details).

PR #628 all the RPC commands interacting with the shielded pool - hence, all the RPC commands starting with z_ or zc_ (for instance z_getbalanace or zc_raw_joinsplit) - are now deprecated. A warning message has been included in the help body of these commands.
Grammatical and punctuation corrections #625

Special thanks to @mantle0x for the first contribution to Zen!

Windows and MacOS binaries are signed with a valid certificate,
see included instructions.txt for Win/Mac command line wallets.

Debian package dependencies:

Depends: libc6 (>= 2.29), libgcc-s1 (>= 4.2), libgomp1 (>= 4.9), libstdc++6 (>= 9)