Hey everyone!

Welcome to weekly update 190. This week we will first check out guides the Raiden team published in preparation for the Coruscant release and we will also update you on the latest development progress. Let’s dig in!

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Coruscant preparations

In case you missed it, the Coruscant & Krittika releases won’t be backwards compatible with Bespin. This means that channels opened using the Bespin client won’t be able to interact with newly created ones using Coruscant. The reason for this is that Coruscant & Krittika will use newly deployed smart contracts.

In preparation for the upgrade, the Raiden team released several useful guides which will help users during the transition. There are 3 guides available:

• What to consider before closing/ withdrawing
• How to close channels and withdraw tokens
• How to withdraw tokens to Ethereum chain without closing a channel

If you currently have open channels we strongly encourage you to check out these guides and act accordingly. Also, opening new channels before the upgrade is not encouraged.

Development progress

The Raiden development team is currently in the phase of manual testing. There weren’t any significant changes to Raiden client or Raiden light client codebases during the past week.

Auxiliary services (pathfinding and monitoring) saw several fixes and improvements. It seems like the clients are ready for Coruscant but there are a few more fixes left to be done regarding services.

Conclusion

This is it for this week. Once again, please check out guides to prepare for the Coruscant release and stay tuned for further updates.

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Cheers!

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