Release Checklist: Acala v2.18.0

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New Release Details:

• Scope: Full Release
• Network: Acala
• Client Version: v2.18.0
• Runtime Version: 2180
• Release Branch: release-acala-2.18.0
  • Diff: release-acala-2.17.0...release-acala-2.18.0
• Substrate version: 98f2e345
  • Diff: paritytech/substrate@069ecf1...98f2e34
• ORML version: 8c036ba3
  • Diff: open-web3-stack/open-runtime-module-library@dc39cfd...8c036ba
• Cumulus version: e05c8d7f
  • Diff: paritytech/cumulus@27721d7...e05c8d7
• Polkadot version: v0.9.40
  • Diff: paritytech/polkadot@c7d6c21...95fe4c8
• srtool details:

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  "tag": "2.13.0",
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• subwasm info

🏋️  Runtime size:             1.463 MB (1,534,480 bytes) 
🗜  Compressed:               Yes, 79.59%
✨ Reserved meta:            OK - [6D, 65, 74, 61]
🎁 Metadata version:         V14
🔥 Core version:             acala-2180 (acala-0.tx3.au1)
🗳️  system.setCode hash:      0xdb19c1b03c454412726ce55f39034c36e8a8fe020dda884c4256ecbfce629ece
🗳️  authorizeUpgrade hash:    0xc6719e0af22ce6620d97246728dc11d538a1b29dc62cf2f41ea81b5f122c0829
🗳️  Blake2-256 hash:          0x971ee7c7d575a8822eca86902045e7c151c86f0f881f049188746621e1c76500
📦 IPFS:                     https://www.ipfs.io/ipfs/QmVnvo9JdjfBiBodyxgMqx5nmbLiUkcVG3q1JouEmWJ3tX

• Wasm: https://gateway.pinata.cloud/ipfs/QmVnvo9JdjfBiBodyxgMqx5nmbLiUkcVG3q1JouEmWJ3tX

• Previous Release: https://github.com/AcalaNetwork/Acala/releases/tag/2.17.0

Client Release

• Verify client Cargo.toml version has been incremented since the last release.
  • Current version: v2.18.0
  • Last version: v2.17.0
• 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:v2.18.0
• 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: 2180
  • Last version: 2170
• 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