Hey everyone!

Welcome to weekly update 172. This week we will check on the progress of the Bespin release mainnet testing and the development progress in general. Let’s dig in!

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Development progress

In our previous weekly updates we covered the development team’s progress and introduction of several alpha releases (the most recent one being Bespin - Mapo). Last week they moved a step further and started working on release candidates for the Bespin release.

So far 2 release candidates were introduced and the most significant change is removal of refund transfers. Refunds were intended as a way to quickly unlock funds in case a transfer can't be completed without having to wait for the lock to expire. Unfortunately they were never very good at achieving this goal and added a lot of complications to the codebase. Therefore they got removed.

The plan for the upcoming week is to create a final release candidate. Progress of this task can be tracked here. We can see that all the critical bugs discovered during testing were successfully fixed and what is left to be done is final testing.

In the light client repository a number of improvements to the dApp were introduced. Prioritized tasks and their progress can be followed here.

The rest of the repositories are following the progress of Raiden client and Raiden light client repositories.

Conclusion

This is all for this week. Final release candidate is very close to being ready and only step after that is making the official Bespin release.

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Cheers!

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