Hey everyone!

Welcome to Weekly Update 111. This previous week has been focused on the latest Release Candidate of the Raiden Client along with a number of parallel developments. We’ll also include an item that slipped by our sights for the last Weekly Update in the conclusion Let’s dive in!

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Raiden RC3 progress

Last week the development team focused on preparing and making release candidates for all the projects in the Raiden ecosystem.

It’s been previously decided that 3 consecutive successful scenario runs signal everything is ready and the development team can proceed with preparing the RC3. The beginning of the week was dedicated to final preparations while closely monitoring daily scenario runs. A successful scenario run on Tuesday was the third consecutive successful one.

First, the development team created a new release for every project. Raiden client RC3 image, released under the codename “Goat for Azazel”, includes all the bug fixes and optimizations since the Narcoleptic Neo. After all the projects were successfully upgraded to the new version, the development team started final tests on the Gorli testnet.

The test plan consists of several steps and checks each component works both individually and in combination with other pieces of the ecosystem. This phase was not completed last week and we can expect the development team will continue working on it in the upcoming week.

Conclusion

To finish up this Weekly Update, we’re excited to see how the new Release Candidate performs. Something that slid by us in our eyes for the previous update and we’d like to bring up still: the team made it easier to connect to their hub, especially now with a Light Client to help with testing (prior to that the documentations linked to a community-run Goerli Raiden node). You can find it at https://hub.raiden.network/. Anyway, that’s everything for our update this week, if there’s anything you're interested in learning more about or just want to know about Raiden Network then please don’t hesitate to leave a comment and we’ll get back to you the best we can.

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Cheers!