# Dev Update Week 16 n 17: RISC-V Benchmarking & Release Automation

**Developer:** Developeruche
**Week Ending:** October 10, 2025

### Summary

These two week's focus was on two major initiatives: completing the benchmark for the RISC-V mode of the Hybrid VM and automating the release process. A significant amount of time was dedicated to writing and finalizing the benchmarking scripts to measure the performance of the RISC-V implementation. The results were compiled and presented to the team. Additionally, a new manual release script was created to streamline the deployment process.

### Accomplishments This Week

* **RISC-V Benchmarking:** Successfully completed the benchmarking for the RISC-V mode. This involved writing the necessary scripts, preparing the assets, and generating the final benchmark results.
* *Commits:* `feat/bench-riscv-mode` in pull request \#38
* **Presentation:** Delivered a presentation on the "RISCV Hybrid Ethereum" project, detailing the hybrid framework, the RISC-V VM, and the benchmark results.
* **Release Automation:** Implemented a manual release script and updated the release workflow to improve the deployment process.
* *Commits:* `manual release script`, `switched to manual release`, `update release flow`, `scrite`, `release yml`
* **Pull Request:** Merged the work on RISC-V benchmarking.

[code](https://github.com/developeruche/hybrid)
[documentation](https://hybrid-book.vercel.app/)
[Pull Request \#38 (Benchmarking)](https://github.com/developeruche/hybrid/pull/38)
[Presentation](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1OjoKw1IsFw-ZtA3-4Z-GRpFLS-Tua8a2XhFkDsZrgbI/edit?usp=sharing)