Release Checklist: Karura v2.18.0

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New Release Details:

• Scope: Full Release
• Network: Karura
• Client Version: v2.18.0
• Runtime Version: 2180
• Release Branch: release-karura-2.18.0
  • Diff: release-karura-2.17.0...release-karura-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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• subwasm info

🏋️  Runtime size:             1.473 MB (1,544,998 bytes) 
🗜  Compressed:               Yes, 79.56%
✨ Reserved meta:            OK - [6D, 65, 74, 61]
🎁 Metadata version:         V14
🔥 Core version:             karura-2180 (karura-0.tx2.au1)
🗳️  system.setCode hash:      0xe998203e1a9424058fcbada145eb1441c4ddd5c31e5c47b6a0551819cb90a8cf
🗳️  authorizeUpgrade hash:    0x620c32408e19312fde05da649598e564d85d7efb0b73a4831f070d05b3ebdcd1
🗳️  Blake2-256 hash:          0x007e2375e1b550f213032134cba005e1acf448797deb897c0cec4dad85ce66ac
📦 IPFS:                     https://www.ipfs.io/ipfs/QmbJAmCS7RxHSwjnpfJXgj3M6eKDgpTWsqTHqTyzJPKxTy

• Wasm: https://gateway.pinata.cloud/ipfs/QmbJAmCS7RxHSwjnpfJXgj3M6eKDgpTWsqTHqTyzJPKxTy

• 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/karura-node:v2.18.0
• 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: 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 Karura 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