📣 Masa Bittensor release v1.2

[Luka-Loncar]

🗺 What's left for release

🌍 Subnet

• scoring mechanism adaptation for stakers-only masa-bittensor#256
• Spike: Investigate and Model Fair Distribution of Validator Requests to Miners masa-bittensor#258
• spike (tweets): how do we facilitate organic tweets on SN42 masa-bittensor#236
• Spike: Run miners on selected subnets for the Masa foundation #47
• spike(rewards): research and understand vulnerabilities and expansion of scoring to other datasets masa-bittensor#242
• Launch Masa Validator on Mainnet masa-bittensor#304

🧪 Code testing

• spike(tests): define and outline the implementation for e2e tests on SN42 masa-bittensor#294
• Acceptance tests (to be created)

🤖 CI and release process

• Separate container images for each project in the respective repositories #53

🖥️ Infra

• Spin down instances and DB's in GCP masa-bittensor#249
• Create and run private validator for Masa so we can have better visibility masa-bittensor#272
• https://github.com/masa-finance/masa-oracle-infra/issues/79

📖 Documentation

• docs: use container images masa-bittensor#139

Release Checklist for v1.2

🚓 Security

• Run pip list --outdated to check for outdated dependencies
• Update dependencies if necessary and run pip freeze > requirements.txt

📦 Continuous Integration (CI)

Verify all CI tests are passing:

• Docker Build and Publish / check-and-build (subtensor)
• Docker Build and Publish / check-and-build (subnet)
• Docker Build and Publish / check-and-build (miner)
• Docker Build and Publish / check-and-build (validator)
• Docker Build and Publish / check-and-build (protocol)

🉐 Tagging

• Tag the masa-bittensor release for v1.0

🎶 Release Notes

• Update release notes text for v1.2
• Ensure release notes are ready for publication to dev docs
• Docker
• Confirm Docker images are published correctly for v1.2

📁 Documentation

• Review and update installation instructions if needed
• Ensure API documentation is up-to-date
• Verify validator and miner requirement documentation is current

🏁 Final Checks

• Verify there are no critical open issues blocking the release
• Conduct a final review of all changes included in this release

📣 Notifications

• Notify @giovaroma and @lacyg4 upon completion of release preparations activity
• Notify DCG and other validators about the new version