Hey everyone!

Welcome to Weekly Update 124. For this week we’ll be covering the user experience changes with the shiny new WebUI. We'll also go over our usual GitHub development progress. Let’s dig in!

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New Raiden WebUI Released blogpost

In last week’s Weekly Update we covered the release of the “Alderaan - The Sun Price” update for the Alderaan mainnet release. The update introduces several smaller bug fixes while the most significant new feature is the redesign of the WebUI.

The Raiden development team followed up the update by releasing a short blogpost (link) covering all the new design changes introduced to the updated WebUI. The blogpost explains that the main motivation behind redesigning the WebUI was to improve the user experience and to make the barrier of entry low for the new users.

As the WebUI is built for the users any kind of user feedback is much appreciated. Ideally, you can leave your comments by opening an issue on Github, however any other platform is also more than fine.

Development progress

The Raiden development team continued working on the new features and bug fixes over the last week.

The initial implementation of the WebRTC support in the Raiden client is close to completion. First benchmark tests of this feature show that it cuts the latency of the mediated payments in half and with further optimizations we can expect additional performance boost.

A new maintenance release for the Raiden service bundle was introduced. It fixes an issue which can prevent new RSB operators from properly joining the existing RSB Matrix federation. We would like to thank the community member hymner for helping the development team in investigating this issue.

Good news is coming from the Raiden light client. It is almost ready for the Alderaan release and we can expect it in the near future!

Conclusion

To finish up, if you’re running the Raiden Client then we’d definitely recommend updating to the latest release and trying out the new WebUI. If you have feedback then don’t hesitate to drop it in Gitter developer chat. As always, if you have any questions about our update or the Raiden Network project as a whole then don’t hesitate to leave a comment.

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Cheers!