Release Checklist: Acala v2.2.1

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New Release Details:

• Scope: Full Release
• Network: Acala
• Client Version: v2.2.1
• Runtime Version: 2021
• Release Branch: release-acala-2.2.1
  • Diff: release-acala-2.2.0...release-acala-2.2.1
• Substrate version: afb74de2
  • Diff: paritytech/substrate@fcc54a7...afb74de
• ORML version: c2837931
  • Diff: open-web3-stack/open-runtime-module-library@c283793...c283793
• Cumulus version: 05cc5f0e
  • Diff: paritytech/cumulus@0be8e8f...05cc5f0
• Polkadot version: v0.9.13
  • Diff: paritytech/polkadot@7d8f00b...7d8f00b
• srtool details:

✨ Your Substrate WASM Runtime is ready! ✨
Summary generated with srtool v0.9.19 using the docker image paritytech/srtool:1.57.0:
 Package     : acala-runtime v2.2.1
 GIT commit  : 33329bb79dd38ce885d143c02dae5dc83102cbe8
 GIT tag     : 2.1.3
 GIT branch  : release-acala-2.2.1
 Rustc       : rustc 1.57.0 (f1edd0429 2021-11-29)
 Time        : 2022-01-18T06:44:31Z

== Compact
 Version     : acala-2021 (acala-0.tx1.au1)
 Metadata    : V14
 Size        : 4.84 MB (5071714 bytes)
 Proposal    : 0xf5a994f3dade9fbf7685efa0e178834207cc0fae619305e3ff54bc538d1c2415
 IPFS        : QmQhc4NTcaHqc1R7L6YBj9L4ej2uipyH2eAw1ygi8GyaEQ
 BLAKE2_256  : 0x52a5cf5ccd70d496a58fa7cbb5614b22bb6ceb796c7d0d7650da92956bbe2416
 Wasm        : runtime/acala/target/srtool/release/wbuild/acala-runtime/acala_runtime.compact.wasm

== Compressed
 Version     : acala-2021 (acala-0.tx1.au1)
 Metadata    : V14
 Size        : 1.13 MB (1189423 bytes)
 Compression : 76.55%
 Proposal    : 0xbca3c83092cc50a5bd30f20adb96d04b5279f317b39c10843f12f1d7a79a7508
 IPFS        : Qme4n7jQzG7xZPH8TH6tVXHLq5Rq28ykS8c3dD5y7XAbEU
 BLAKE2_256  : 0xb7b77000386afe02379f1f3fb3d32c81c873596d3444d9e8b8d7d8bc141d9cb6
 Wasm        : runtime/acala/target/srtool/release/wbuild/acala-runtime/acala_runtime.compact.compressed.wasm

• subwasm info

🏋️  Runtime size:		1.134 MB (1,189,423 bytes)
🗜  Compressed:			Yes, 76.55%
✨ Reserved meta:		OK - [6D, 65, 74, 61]
🎁 Metadata version:		V14
🔥 Core version:		acala-2021 (acala-0.tx1.au1)
🗳️  system.setCode hash:		0xbca3c83092cc50a5bd30f20adb96d04b5279f317b39c10843f12f1d7a79a7508
🗳️  authorizeUpgrade hash:	0x0feaaa1023b1265a36fb1c92be14662a8deaacfcf437138762c520f4c5b2cfd8
#️⃣  Blake2-256 hash:		0xb7b77000386afe02379f1f3fb3d32c81c873596d3444d9e8b8d7d8bc141d9cb6
📦 IPFS:			https://www.ipfs.io/ipfs/Qme4n7jQzG7xZPH8TH6tVXHLq5Rq28ykS8c3dD5y7XAbEU

• Previous Release: https://github.com/AcalaNetwork/Acala/releases/tag/2.1.3

Client Release

• Verify client Cargo.toml version has been incremented since the last release.
  • Current version: v2.2.1
  • Last version: v2.2.0
• 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:2.2.1
• Check new client is able to sync from scratch

Runtime Release

• Verify spec_version has been incremented since the last release.
  • Current version: 2021
  • Last version: 2020
• 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 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)