Hey everyone
We are very excited to have announced three major updates on the progress we have made over the last several months. We have gone into detail here in the medium article (https://medium.com/@zano_project/zano-dev-update-auditable-wallets-mobile-app-release-and-new-team-member-e86bd2eb87de) but in short these are the 3 main points:

* First of all - We have a new GUI release v1.1.7.96, which includes Auditable wallets! Now in Zano it is possible to create and track auditable wallets.

* Secondly, We have officially launched the Zano Mobile Wallet, available in Apple Store and Google Play

*Last but not least we have brought a new team member on board - Anton Sokolov, a researcher with a strong mathematical background. He has his own ideas on how to build log-size signatures, which he described in his work here: https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/688.pdf

And here is a change log for new desktop node release:

• implemented auditable wallets and tracking wallets, supported in both GUI and simplewallet
• 26th word added to new wallets' seed phrase
• wallet files size and syncing speed were greatly optimized
• added new checkpoint at height 600k + updated predownload links for faster syncing from scratch
• simplewallet: new options and command for work with auditable wallets
• GUI: QR code for receiving coins was enlarged for more robust scanning
• Zano core and automated tests are adapted for upcoming hardfork 2
• codebase adopted to support MSVC2019
• Bunch of fixes in wallets manager to prevent crashes on mobile devices
• Fixed wallet pulling daemon like there is no tomorrow
• Extended mobile wallet interface API (wallet size, validating address, generalised response codes)
• Improved wallet sync protocol:  implemented global output indexes deferred fetching (faster sync on staking wallets)

Binaries:
https://github.com/hyle-team/zano/releases