A living field guide to
Zcash open-source software releases

watch the code grow.

Explore the living history of Zcash's open-source software. Each tree represents a repository. Each leaf a release. No tokens, no trading. Just code, growing a more private and open future.

More code
A more private world
A brighter tomorrow

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Paste a public GitHub repo URL to see its tree.

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    Release log

    every leaf, in order

    Field notes

    how to read the forest

    1. A tree is a repository

      Every tree is one public GitHub repository. Its trunk is time: the oldest releases sit low on the tree and the newest crown the top.

    2. A leaf is a release

      One leaf for every published GitHub release — never decoration. Click or tap one for its date, short release notes and a link to the original post.

    3. Size is significance

      Large leaves are major versions (x.0.0, or 0.x.0 before 1.0), medium ones minor versions, small ones patches. Tags without a version number count as minor.

    4. Colour is age

      Lime leaves appeared in the last 90 days, green ones within the year, deep green ones earlier. A pale leaf with a ring marks a pre-release.

    5. A bare sapling

      A tree with no leaves belongs to a repository that hasn't published a GitHub release yet. Tags alone don't count; the tree leafs out with the first release.

    6. Rings in the ground

      The rings at the foot of the selected tree count the calendar years in which it published at least one release.

    About

    an open changelog, not a market

    MOSS is a field guide to the software behind Zcash. It reads public release data from the GitHub REST API and draws it as a forest, so you can watch real software change over time.

    There is nothing to connect and nothing to sign: no wallet, no tokens, no accounts. Paste any public repository — Zcash or not — and MOSS grows its tree from that repository's releases, oldest to newest, each linked to the original release on GitHub.

    Follow the forest as it grows on X: @letmossgrow.

    GitHub allows 60 anonymous API requests an hour per visitor, so pasted repositories are remembered in this browser for a while. An independent project; data belongs to each repository's authors.

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