Hey everyone!

Welcome to weekly update 115. This week we’ll check what is new in the two release candidates the development team introduced last week and briefly go over other development updates. Let’s dive in!

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Raiden v0.200.0-rc8 - “last_jedi”

In last week’s update we covered how the development team discovered a few issues during the internal testing and that they prioritized investigating and fixing them.

They were successful in fixing all the known issues and decided to make a new release candidate under the codename “last_jedi”. This release candidate is a bug fixing release and will enable the developers to continue with their test plan.

You can also try out the “last_jedi” by downloading it from the release page. If you have any trouble running it just leave a comment and we will give our best to get you started!

Light client v0.6.0 - “Speedy”

An interesting release happened in the light client repository last week. The “Speedy” release was introduced as the fastest release of the light client yet.

What gives “Speedy” it’s speed is the new experimental integration of fast WebRTC P2P transport. WebRTC offers a significant performance boost over the Matrix transport which was the only supported option until now. Other changes introduced with the release include a small feature in the PFS integration and a list of nice fixes in the dApp.

Development progress

Apart from wrapping up and releasing new versions of the Raiden client and the Raiden light client, the development team also worked on other parts of the Raiden ecosystem.

The Raiden Wizard on-boarding tool provides a quick and easy way for installing Raiden and running a Raiden node. The Raiden team decided to refactor it for the upcoming Alderaan mainnet release in order to make it more intuitive and user friendly for the layman users.

Furthermore, all the guides and documentation are being checked to make sure they are up to date with the code.

Conclusion

As we can see, the development team is focusing on both the Raiden light client and the Raiden client. Short term goal for the Raiden client is reaching the Alderaan development milestone goal and releasing a new version on the Ethereum mainnet. In parallel, performance optimizations and expanding supported features are highest priorities in the Raiden light client. As always, we are available for any questions and will give our best to provide the answer!

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Cheers!