Release Checklist: Acala v2.21.0

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New Release Details:

• Scope: Full Release
• Network: Acala
• Client Version: v2.21.0
• Runtime Version: 2210
• Release Branch: release-acala-2.21.0
  • Diff: release-acala-2.20.0...release-acala-2.21.0
• Substrate version: 948fbd2f
  • Diff: paritytech/substrate@948fbd2...948fbd2
• ORML version: 56803039
  • Diff: open-web3-stack/open-runtime-module-library@22ae492...5680303
• Cumulus version: 0d17cf6b
  • Diff: paritytech/cumulus@0d17cf6...0d17cf6
• Polkadot version: v1.0.0
  • Diff: paritytech/polkadot@c9ec8c5...c9ec8c5
• srtool details:

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• subwasm info

🏋️  Runtime size:             1.482 MB (1,553,695 bytes) 
🗜  Compressed:               Yes, 79.63%
✨ Reserved meta:            OK - [6D, 65, 74, 61]
🎁 Metadata version:         V14
🔥 Core version:             acala-2210 (acala-0.tx3.au1)
🗳️  system.setCode hash:      0x46a83a807a3c6245083ea8e11fc9b35063f67cb22412485341a9b894f410918d
🗳️  authorizeUpgrade hash:    0x0793735257df64f130345d3f8acf0c0f9a8d42eb7efd80e22daae4f07a69a498
🗳️  Blake2-256 hash:          0xd756da5f7ee434fb9029951026766affd025c043dbfc29710e7966a3917379d0
📦 IPFS:                     https://www.ipfs.io/ipfs/QmbQVBSvqiCQNUu5zv2ax6ZM7L1WZYX8G4vEZj5VkXbtxJ

• Wasm: https://gateway.pinata.cloud/ipfs/QmbQVBSvqiCQNUu5zv2ax6ZM7L1WZYX8G4vEZj5VkXbtxJ

• Previous Release: https://github.com/AcalaNetwork/Acala/releases/tag/2.20.0

Client Release

• Verify client Cargo.toml version has been incremented since the last release.
  • Current version: v2.21.0
  • Last version: v2.20.0
• Check the new client have run on the network without issue for at lease 12 hours.
• Check new docker image has been published.
  • acala/acala-node:v2.21.0
• Check new client is able to sync from scratch
  • docker run --rm acala/acala-node:latest --chain=acala -- --chain=dev

Runtime Release

• Verify spec_version has been incremented since the last release.
  • Current version: 2210
  • Last version: 2200
• Verify completed migrations are removed from any public networks.
• Review subwasm diff
• Verify extrinsic ordering has stayed the same. Bump transaction_version if not.
  • ORML
  • Substrate
  • Cumulus
  • Polkadot
  • Acala
• Verify new extrinsics have been correctly whitelisted/blacklisted for proxy filters.
• Verify benchmarks & weights have been updated for any modified runtime logics.
• Verify we included all the necessary migrations.
  • ORML
  • Substrate
  • Cumulus
  • Polkadot
  • Acala
• Verify new migrations complete successfully and the runtime state is correctly updated for any public networks.
  • Verify the execution time to perform runtime upgrade with Acala onchain data.
• Ensure WASM is reproducible
  • make srtool-build-wasm-acala

All Releases

• Check new Github release is created with release logs.

Post Release

• Notify Discord announcement channel.
• Ensure our own nodes are updated