Release Checklist: 1.6.0

[xlc]

New Release Details:

• Scope: Full Release
• Network: Karura
• Client Version: 1.6.0
• Runtime Version: 1019
• Release Branch: release-karura-1.6.0
  • Diff: release-karura-1.5.3...release-karura-1.6.0
• Substrate version: polkadot-v0.9.11
  • Diff: paritytech/substrate@420db18...57346f6
• ORML version: release-karura-1.6.0
  • Diff: open-web3-stack/open-runtime-module-library@72b0e52...38b53d3
• Cumulus version: polkadot-v0.9.11
  • Diff: paritytech/cumulus@870b214...ede4d52
• Polkadot version: release-v0.9.11
  • Diff: paritytech/polkadot@aeea9b7...eb9f107
• srtool details:

Summary generated with srtool v0.9.17 using the docker image paritytech/srtool:1.53.0:
 Package     : karura-runtime v1.6.0
 GIT commit  : 1c1776922355d2317fd14ae9f6ba31619a804b4c
 GIT tag     : 1.5.1
 GIT branch  : release-karura-1.6.0
 Rustc       : rustc 1.53.0 (53cb7b09b 2021-06-17)
 Time        : 2021-10-27T23:34:45Z

== Compact
 Version     : karura-1019 (karura-0.tx1.au1)
 Metadata    : V14
 Size        : 4.51 MB (4728412 bytes)
 Proposal    : 0xce03fa82c9970f042431bf2bc27b2af562e316d4d4a4743cc81ba51c7bf0e3ec
 IPFS        : QmaFY4a79L991RYFxUE58hqjs1DECMCi5eso5ZNKNPdU75
 BLAKE2_256  : 0x064501abb3af2f4314baeea31aeedb2c0aeab798441fed99a58b663643c8c5d2
 Wasm        : runtime/karura/target/srtool/release/wbuild/karura-runtime/karura_runtime.compact.wasm

== Compressed
 Version     : karura-1019 (karura-0.tx1.au1)
 Metadata    : V14
 Size        : 1.05 MB (1096369 bytes)
 Compression : 76.82%
 Proposal    : 0xe2898ba8f64f399b29b81ad7682aa3208487a509d74f7073a8644f14d149bb11
 IPFS        : QmQ7jd5v1ZnEWRxE1pP36ux3DVFtcrZnPg6LWzkg3nw1wP
 BLAKE2_256  : 0xce864af51bd0b781efb619d2d7f5c360dc72c15ea0be3646823c62166fe6fa9f
 Wasm        : runtime/karura/target/srtool/release/wbuild/karura-runtime/karura_runtime.compact.compressed.wasm

• subwasm info

🏋️  Runtime size:		1.046 MB (1,096,369 bytes)
🗜  Compressed:			Yes, 76.81%
✨ Reserved meta:		OK - [6D, 65, 74, 61]
🎁 Metadata version:		V14
🔥 Core version:		karura-1019 (karura-0.tx1.au1)
🗳️  system.setCode hash:		0xe2898ba8f64f399b29b81ad7682aa3208487a509d74f7073a8644f14d149bb11
🗳️  authorizeUpgrade hash:	0x5a83b67186e85d22b2aeeef7c9ca50baa6509696afd2b67b402fcf3855d2cc5c
#️⃣  Blake2-256 hash:		0xce864af51bd0b781efb619d2d7f5c360dc72c15ea0be3646823c62166fe6fa9f
📦 IPFS:			https://www.ipfs.io/ipfs/QmQ7jd5v1ZnEWRxE1pP36ux3DVFtcrZnPg6LWzkg3nw1wP

• Previous Release: https://github.com/AcalaNetwork/Acala/releases/tag/1.5.3
  • Checklist: Release Checklist: 1.5.3 #1527

Client Release

• Verify client Cargo.toml version has been incremented since the last release.
  • Current version: 1.6.0
  • Last version: 1.5.1
• Check the new client have run on the network without issue for at lease 12 hours.
• Check new docker image has been published.
  • acala/karura-node:1.6.0
• Check new client is able to sync from scratch
  • docker run --rm acala/karura-node:latest --chain=karura -- --chain=dev

Runtime Release

• Verify spec_version has been incremented since the last release.
  • Current version: 1019
  • Last version: 1018
• Verify completed migrations are removed from any public networks.
• Review subwasm diff
  • subwasm diff wss://karura-rpc-2.aca-api.network/ws karura_runtime.compact.compressed.wasm
• 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 Karura/Acala onchain data.
• Ensure WASM is reproducible
  • make srtool-build-wasm-karura

All Releases

• Check new Github release is created with release logs.

Post Release

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

Compatibility Checklist

SDK & Tools

• acala.js
• txwrapper
• sidecar
• acala-subql
• oracle dispatcher

dApps & Wallets

• polkadot apps
• Acala dApp
• Polkawallet

Other

• Exchanges
• Gauntlet
• Faucet (for Mandala)