Hey everyone!

Welcome to weekly update 188. This week we will check out the latest updates in the Raiden Network development progress. Let’s dig in!

Development progress

The Raiden client looks almost completely ready for the Coruscant milestone. The development team created a couple more release candidates in the last 7 days, the latest one being Coruscant - mansard. All packages in the Raiden Client were updated to the latest versions and a few more optimizations were also successfully completed. Open issues section of github looks clean of any reported bugs and we can see an open task for the Release 3.0.0.

The Raiden light client is tightly following Raiden client’s development progress. Dependencies were also updated to latest versions and optimization regarding gas management was successfully completed.

Additional information regarding the smart contract’s upgrade, which will happen with the introduction of Coruscant, should soon be shared by the Raiden team. Coruscant and Bespin clients will not be compatible and additional steps will be needed when you’ll be upgrading your client to the Coruscant version. We encourage you to closely follow the official Raiden twitter account

Conclusion

Coruscant release is just around the corner. It will introduce several very important features alongside a number of improvements and optimizations. If you are considering opening more Raiden channels now, consider waiting for Coruscant as currently open channels won’t be compatible with the new release.

Cheers!

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GitHub: https://github.com/raiden-network