Zebra 1.0.0-alpha.10

Zebra's latest alpha continues our work on NU5, including Orchard and Transaction V5. It also includes some security fixes.

Added

Network Upgrade 5

• Store Orchard nullifiers into the state (#2185)

Testing and Bug Reports

• Generate test chains that pass basic chain consistency tests (#2221)
• Make arbitrary block chains pass some genesis checks (#2208)
• Test Eq/PartialEq for Orchard keys (#2187, #2228)
• Further test new transaction consensus rules (#2246)
• Create workflow to regenerate cached state disks for tests (#2247)
• Add final sapling root test vectors (#2243)

Changed

• Make sure the mandatory checkpoint includes the Canopy activation block (#2235)
• Move the check in transaction::check::sapling_balances_match to V4 deserialization (#2234)

Network Upgrade 5

• Implement more Transaction checks for Transaction Version 5 and Orchard (#2229, #2236)

Testing and Diagnostics

• Make debugging easier on proptests with large vectors (#2232, #2222)
• Update test job to use cached state version 5 (#2253)
• Add the database format to the panic metadata (#2249)

Developer Workflows

• Update the GitHub and RFC templates based on retrospectives (#2242)

Fixed

• Get redpallas tweak proptests working again (#2219)

Testing

• Adjust the benchmark sample size so all benchmarks finish successfully (#2237)
• Fix scriptCode serialization and sighash test vectors (#2198)
• Allow multi-digit Zebra alpha versions in the zebrad acceptance tests (#2250)

Security

• Don't trust future gossiped last seen times (#2178)
• Stop panicking when serializing out-of-range times, Credit: Equilibrium (#2203, #2210)
• Rate limit GetAddr messages to any peer, Credit: Equilibrium (#2254)
• Prevent bursts of reconnection attempts (#2251)