Hey everyone!

Welcome to Weekly Update 118. For this week’s update we’ll primarily be focusing on testing and the development progress towards the Alderaan mainnet milestone goal. Let’s dive in!

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Development progress

Internal testing and preparations for the upcoming Alderaan mainnet release continued during the week.

In the Raiden client repository, the majority of the commits were related to cumbersome test scenarios that required some adjusting for the mainnet environment. The other changes include minor improvements to the error handling and the new API endpoint which will allow users to properly shut down the Raiden client. As for news on a more positive note, there were no serious bugs or issues discovered during testing.

A significant amount of effort was dedicated to the refactoring of the Raiden Wizard. With the assistance of internal test runs and demonstrations, the Raiden team was able to determine the blocking issues for the Alderaan release. All of the blocking issues were added to the upcoming week’s backlog and some of them are already being worked on.

Last but not least, a new testnet release of the Light client was introduced under the code name Sanctuary. In this release, a transfer history was added to the dApp, while on the SDK side the integration with the Monitoring Service was optimized. You can always check out the newest release of the Raiden light client on this link.

Conclusion

To finish up this Weekly Update, the Raiden team was mostly focused on making sure the Release Candidate for Alderaan is ready to progress into the release itself. By the looks of things, we can likely expect the same activity to continue until Alderaan is out. If you have any questions about this Weekly Update or Raiden Network in general then please don’t hesitate to ask in the comments and we’ll get back to you the best we can.

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Cheers!