Hey everyone!

Welcome to weekly update 171. This week we will cover progress towards one of the last phases before the Bespin release can be launched on the Ethereum mainnet - the internal testing on the Ethereum mainnet. Let’s dig in!

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Development progress

In the Raiden client repository the development team dedicated most of their time to implementing a few smaller improvements and fixing the build process. Once those open issues were successfully resolved a new alpha version of Bespin was introduced. The only additional change introduced in the Bespin - Mapo alpha release is a fix for building of binary bundles. With this issue out of their way, the Raiden development team should be all set up to start testing Bespin on the mainnet.

In the light client repository developers are also preparing for the mainnet launch. Dependencies were locked to current versions and few smaller changes were introduced in the last week. The name of the current iteration also reveals the mainnet release is very close to being ready.

Work in other repositories (WebUI, RSB, services) includes final preparations for moving testing on the Ethereum mainnet.

Conclusion

This is all for this week. Final preparations were sorted out last week and everything is ready to move testing to the Ethereum mainnet. Depending on the success of the testing we should see Bespin and the first mainnet Raiden light client release soon. For any additional questions feel free to reach out.

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Cheers!

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