Hey everyone!

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Welcome to Weekly Update 56. Hope everyone had a great week and enjoyable f***feesfriday. This update, we’ll be focusing on the new release that came out last week, a summary of some of the improvements along with it and the groundwork being paved going forward. We’ll also be going into some of the usual overall Github activity. Let’s dig in!

Raiden v0.100.2 - “Pluto”

On the 21st of December, Raiden for the first time became available on the Ethereum mainnet with the Red Eyes release. Last Friday, the first patch release was introduced under the codename Pluto.

Pluto is a mostly bug-fixing release containing a considerable amount of fixes for bugs discovered during the last two months of testing and working on the Red Eyes release. The biggest new feature for the user is the address book which is part of the updated WebUI. The address book enables users to label public addresses with a name, edit and delete entries and import/export address book files.

In addition to Linux and macOS binaries, Pluto introduced ARM binaries. ARM binaries enable users to run Raiden on the Raspberry Pi; a very popular single-board computer in the IOT community. For anyone who wishes to run Raiden inside a docker container, the image of the Pluto release has been uploaded to the dockerhub.

Everyone interested in trying out Raiden can do so by following the installation guide found here (video). If you get stuck somewhere in the process or you have any questions, feel free to contact the Raiden developers in the official gitter chat.

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Development progress

The majority of the previous week was dedicated to preparing the Pluto release and further development of the key features for the Ithaca milestone. The remainder of open bugs were addressed and fixes for them tested which marked that everything is ready for the Pluto release.

Some of the fixes include: reduction of CPU usage when the Raiden node is idle (which is great for Raspberry Pi’s), some proper handling of edge-cases that can occur when using Raiden Network and improved Ethereum node interaction for users running Parity (rather than Geth).

Additionally, the Pluto release has a good portion of groundwork for the auxiliary services integration. However, several key features are missing and integration didn’t yet pass the internal testing so new features related to auxiliary services were not introduced in the Pluto release.

In the upcoming weeks we can expect for the development team to continue working on auxiliary services integration.

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Conclusion

In conclusion to this Weekly Update, a lot of technological progress with the new release this week. We also saw some focus on Raiden from the Ethereum community this week, with Week in Ethereum News and on Twitter. Just a quick update on Raiden’s participation at the EthCC next week in Paris. Augusto will not be the one presenting and instead Franziska and Paul will do the presentation (the schedule wasn’t yet updated). As always, thanks to you and everyone in the community for following the Weekly Update! Feel free to leave a comment if there’s anything you’re interested in about this update or Raiden Network and we’ll get back to you.
Cheers!