Zebra 1.0.0-beta.9

Zebra's latest beta continues our work on lightwalletd RPC methods, and contains some internal CI improvements.

Added

RPCs

• Add a script for comparing zcashd and zebrad RPC responses (#4219)
• Add Rust tests for lightwalletd sync from Zebra (#4177)
• Add integration test to send transactions using lightwalletd (#4068)
• RPC test with fully synced Zebra (#4157)
• Log unrecognized RPC requests (#3860)
• Implement the get_address_tx_ids RPC method query (#4119)
• Implement getaddressbalance RPC (#4138)
• Add a query function for transparent UTXOs (#4111)

CI

• Add sending_transactions_using_lightwalletd test to CI (#4267)
• Add a zebrad tip-height utility command (#4289)
• Add fully_synced_rpc_test test to CI (#4223)
• Add a reusable workflow for deployable integration tests (#4271)
• Add wallet grpc tests (#4253)
• Implement reusable workflows for image building (#4173)
• Implement getaddressutxos RPC method. (#4087)

Changed

• Increase block validation timeouts (#4156)
• Decrease the peer handshake timeout to 3 seconds, to speed up the initial sync (#4212)
• Use link-time optimisation in release builds (#4184)
• Add an extra block retry, to speed up the initial sync (#4185)
• Update Zebra's block hash checkpoints (#4183)
• Document coinbase rules, refactor to ease understanding (#4056)
• Disconnect from testnet peers using the first NU5 testnet rules (#3976)

RPCs

• Simplify RPC types and add documentation (#4218)

Documentation

• Add transaction index diagram to RFC-0005 (#4330)

CI

• Skip tests when doing a manual full sync (#4333)
• Add cached state version to disk images (#4314)
• Check specific files for each job when linting (#4311)
• Use debian for faster mounting and bump readiness time (#4276)
• Use docker instead of Konlet for GCP deployments in CI (#4252)
• Create a full sync disk to add the cached state inside (#4266)
• Increase the Zcash parameter fetch timeout (#4148)

Fixed

• Fix testnet syncer loop on large Orchard blocks (#4286)

RPCs

• Fix some RPC response formats to match zcashd (#4217)
• Make Zebra RPC compatible with the zcash-cli RPC client (#4215)
• Use a structure for parameters of getaddresstxids (#4264)

CI

• Only update cached states when needed (#4332)
• Run sync tests according to the right conditions (#4313)
• Stop actionlint from failing in main (#4317)
• Make the full sync tests cache state at /zebrad-cache (#4308)
• Avoid docker cache contamination and invalidation (#4254)
• Garbage collect instances no matter previous steps status (#4255)
• Do not delete instances from main branch on merge (#4206)
• Retry after docker log follow ssh failures (#4198)
• Share GitHub runner caches between branches (#4149)