Raiden PoC 5 - Alternative Channels

This is our first PoC release on our way towards the Raiden MVP for 2017!

It's a big one! It contains 28 PRs from 7 different contributors. It's really nice to also see some external contributors trying their hand on raiden.

Here is the breakdown of what has been implemented.

• Made jsonrpc hex encoding compatible with newer versions of geth:
  • #291
  • #343
• Separated development from production dependencies - #296
• Channels can now be reopened after closing - #297
• Unique UDP socket port numbers for the tests - #315
• Make raiden work for MacOSX - #318
• The raiden node will now monitor its channels and automatically dispute if there is a discrepancy - #327
• The client which deploys the registry contract will now keep quiet - #331
• Fix timing error in the networking protocol of raiden - #332
• Channels now emit an event when they are deleted - #336
• Raiden readme changes - #338
• Fixed RLP dependency error - #339
• Fixed Pipy upstream URL location - #342
• Fixed Pipy requirements - #349
• We now reuse TCP ports instead of opening new ones for each new request - #350
• Raiden can now also work with solc versions >= 0.4.9 - #351
• The Raiden node now handles messages from outdated partners and messages sent to non-existing channels in a more graceful way - #352
• General Code refactoring/additions:
  • #295
  • #304
  • #310
  • #313
  • #320
  • #328
  • #329
  • #330
  • #333
  • #345
  • #346

Raiden PoC 4 - El Cabrito

• Don't swallow errors when talking to the Github API:
  #283
• Better specify and improve the channel closing strategy.
  #276
• Test that unauthorized token transfers to a channel do not
  disrupt the netted token balance and the overall channel
  operation.
  #284

Raiden 0.4.0 Pypi link
Raiden 0.4.0 documentation

Raiden PoC-3 (Dark Meta Gecko)

This is the third Raiden weekly PoC Release on the way to the MVP.

• Check for token transfer failure
  #279
• Add updated transfer event
  #281
• Fix failing unlock test and fix unlock function in smart contract NetttingChannelLibrary
  #211
• Disallow same lock to be unlocked twice
  #211

Raiden PoC -2

This is the second Raiden weekly POC Release on the way to the MVP.

• Includes automated Pypi release for each succesfull release we are making.
  #272
• The raiden contracts were re-deployed in the new test network, the Ropsten network
  #271
• Process message edge cases that have invalid attributes:
  #268

Pypi link: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/raiden/0.0.2
Documentation: http://pythonhosted.org/raiden/genindex.html

PoC-1

PoC - 1

This is the first of a series of weekly raiden releases leading up to our MVP release.

Changes since last Release

• We now don't panick with repeated out-of-order messages in a channel
  #267 or with valid messages from unknown senders #263
• Fixed python packaging
  #264
• Throttling on sending messages: #252
• Periodic healthcheck of all nodes we are connected to: #242
• We now use the local ethereum accounts existing in the machine instead of prompting to input the private key: #199
• Functionality in the client for assets-exchange: #161
• A lot of internal architecture and protocol PRs got merged:
  #160
  #156
  #151
  #134
  #107
• Raiden messages now have an identifier field:
  #147
  #145
• Raiden smart contracts are now solidity v.4.0 compatibe
  #136
• Raiden can now accept an rpc endpoint as URL
  #116
• Message sends are now queued
  #104

Also a lot of bug fixes, refactoring and other miscellaneous work by our tireless team is included in this release.

PoC-0

See https://github.com/raiden-network/raiden/wiki/Raiden-PoC%E2%80%900