Hey everyone!

Welcome to Weekly Update 96. The update will be focusing purely on technical and development progress made by the team throughout the week. The main topics being the light client and WebUI. Let’s dig in!

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Development progress

Last week, the development team continued working towards the Alderaan milestone. In the Raiden client repository, the developers focused on identifying and fixing issues discovered with the help of the scenario player. Additionally, they also worked on expanding logging to help them in debugging and simplifying some of the automated tests.

In the light client repository, the developers worked on adding derived subkey support. Once fully completed this feature will allow light client users to generate a subkey for their session. By using the subkey, users will be able to interact with their light clients without the need to manually sign each message. It is important to point out that this feature will not have an impact on security. The feature is completed in the light client SDK while it is yet to be implemented in the dApp.

For the Raiden WebUI, a new release was created (v0.10.4) along with it being added as a project to the Python Package Index (PyPI). For those who might not be familiar, PyPI is a repository of software for the Python programming language which helps you find and install software developed and shared by the Python community. This will make it easier to share the WebUI allowing it to be installed with a simple command from a terminal.

Conclusion

To finish up this Weekly Update, we’ve focused on technical aspects and improvements created around the Raiden Network project this week. Derived subkey support will be a useful feature for improving UX, as most of the time these are signatures of opaque byte strings or even hashes, there's no point in requiring users to see it. Instead, the user can see a human-readable message similar to this. The WebUI addition to the Python Package Index will make it easier for python developers to get their hands on the simple web application that utilizes the Raiden REST API endpoints. If you have any questions about any of those topics or Raiden Network in general, please don’t hesitate to leave a comment and we’ll get back to you the best we can. See you next week.

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Cheers!