Hey everyone!

Welcome to Weekly Update 94. This week we’ll be looking into the recent release candidate in combination with the Light Client progress. There will also be the usual overall GitHub coverage. Let’s dig in!

Raiden client v0.200.0-rc2 - Narcoleptic Neo

Last week the Raiden development team released a new Raiden client release candidate towards a mainnet-stable Alderaan under the code name “Narcoleptic Neo”.

Narcoleptic Neo consists of bug fixes and includes a couple of significant features. The most significant feature is full compatibility with the Infura client, enabling quick and easy onboarding of new users. In terms of bug fixes, various improvements of the mediation fee component and transport layer significantly improve the stability and reliability of the Raiden client.

We encourage anyone who may have been running the previous release candidate (0.200.0-rc1) to upgrade to the Narcoleptic Neo release as it should solve issues with node availability several users came across. For a quick and easy fresh installation, you can always rely on the Raiden Wizard (currently available for macOS and Linux).

Raiden Light Client v0.2 - mighty midiclorian

Several days after the release of the Narcoleptic Neo, the Raiden development team introduced the first Alderaan-compatible Light Client SDK and dApp release, “mighty midiclorian”. The new version introduces numerous changes including Path Finding Service (PFS) integration and improved UX, mediation fee support and Matrix Transport improvements in reliability, stability, and performance. The release has been tested for compatibility with the Narcoleptic Neo Raiden client release and the web3 providers MetaMask, imToken and Status.

Currently, it is only available on the Ethereum testnets (Goerli, Rinkeby and Ropsten) and you can try it yourself here. If you have any questions or you would like to find someone to open a channel with, you can join the awesome the Raiden community on Telegram (link)!

Development progress

In addition to making new releases of both clients, the Raiden development team continued progress towards the Alderaan milestone goal.

They were mostly focused on optimizing the performance of the pathfinding service and resolving minor bugs discovered during testing. There was also an increase in stress testing related to services and the new release candidate, utilizing the Scenario Player.

Conclusion

In conclusion to this Weekly Update, with release candidate 2 for Alderaan you can now try out similar features on testnet of what we can expect to see once the Alderaan mainnet release comes. The light client now being compatible with the Alderaan contracts (v0.33.3) means that you can test interactions between the full Raiden client and light client. That’s all for this Weekly Update, if you have any questions about the content covered or Raiden Network in general then please leave a comment and we’ll get back to you the best we can. See you next week.

Cheers!