Hey everyone.

Welcome to weekly update 168. This week we will go over the latest Raiden client pre-release and also check other development progress. Let’s dig in!

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Raiden v2.0.0.-a0 “Bespin - Shinny”

We’ve been following the development progress towards the Bespin mainnet release for the past several months. Last week the Raiden development team decided that they are satisfied with the current state of the codebase and introduced the first alpha Bespin release.

“Bespin - Shinny” pre-release contains all the new features the Bespin release will introduce but more importantly it also features a refactored Matrix transport layer. It will be used by the development team to perform all the testing (both manual and automated) in order to confirm everything works correctly.

Good news is that although Bespin release will not be compatible with earlier releases, once both clients participating in an existing channel are updated they will be able to continue to use the existing channel.

Development progress

In addition to releasing the Raiden client alpha Bespin release, the Raiden development team also worked on other projects.

Support for Wallet Connect was added to the Raiden light client. Other work on the light client includes improvements to the testing infrastructure and minor bug fixes. Minor release bumps were also introduced to Raiden services and WebUI repositories.

In the first week of testing the alpha Bespin release only 1 medium severity issue has been discovered. It seems the dev team already knows how to fix it and we can expect it will be handled in the near term future.

Conclusion

This is all for this week. The Bespin release in terms of development completed, however it requires some additional testing before it can be made available on the Ethereum mainnet. For any comments or questions leave a comment or join our friendly community on Telegram. Until next week.

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