Zebra 1.5.1

Zebra 1.5.1 - 2024-01-18

This release:

• Adds a utility for reading scanning results, and finalizes the MVP features of the scanner.
• Adds an experimental internal-miner feature, which mines blocks within zebrad. This feature is only supported on testnet. Use a more efficient GPU or ASIC for mainnet mining.
• Contains many documentation improvements.

Added

• Add an internal Zcash miner to Zebra (#8136, #8150)
• Blockchain scanner new features:
  • Don't scan and log if we are below sapling height (#8121)
  • Restart scanning where left (#8080)
  • Add scanning result reader utility (#8104, #8157)
• Note default path to config in docs (#8143)
• Document how to add a column family (#8149)

Changed

• Make sure scanner database is accessed using the correct types (#8112)
• Move history tree and value balance to typed column families (#8115)
• Refactor the user documentation for scanning (#8124)
• Refactor user & dev documentation (#8145)
• Improve feature flag docs (#8114)
• Allow opening the database in a read-only mode (#8079)
• Send all zebrad logs to the journal under systemd (#7965)

Fixed

• Point to a manually created list of Zebra crates in docs (#8160)
• Add shielded-scan.md to the index (#8095)
• Elasticsearch feature, make bulk size the same for testnet and mainnet (#8127)

Contributors

Thank you to everyone who contributed to this release, we couldn't make Zebra without you:
@arya2, @bishopcheckmate, @gustavovalverde, @oxarbitrage, @sandakersmann, @teor2345 and @upbqdn