paritytech/polkadot v0.8.29

Polkadot v0.8.29

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Upgrade priority: Low (upgrade at your convenience)
Native runtimes:

• Polkadot: 29
• Kusama: 2029
• Westend: 49

This release was tested against the following versions of rustc. Other versions may work.

• rustc 1.50.0 (cb75ad5db 2021-02-10)
• rustc 1.52.0-nightly (98f8cce6d 2021-02-25)

WASM runtimes built with srtool using rustc 1.49.0-nightly (fd542592f 2020-10-26).

Proposal hashes:

• polkadot_runtime-v29.compact.wasm - 0x08027556b75256d6bcdd9a03213fac2d428cd00996f7101419e7724b7d9b950a
• kusama_runtime-v2029.compact.wasm - 0x234e4c7eebfc2a85b79b1a687b36735528a86c0b6accf2fe7f490ada6940e4a7

Changes

• CancelProxy uses reject_announcement instead of remove_announcement (#2429)

Client

• Make it clear in CLI that paritydb is experimental (paritytech/substrate#8152)
• Remove all code related to sentry nodes (paritytech/substrate#8079)
• Remove backwards-compatibility networking hack (paritytech/substrate#8068)
• Extend SS58 network identifiers (paritytech/substrate#8039)
• Update dependencies for next update (paritytech/substrate#8015)
• Add a send_request function to NetworkService (paritytech/substrate#8008)
• Rename system_networkState to system_unstable_networkState (paritytech/substrate#8001)
• Storage chains: serve transactions over IPFS/bitswap (paritytech/substrate#7963)

Runtime

• ✅ unused Session Delayed Para Changes / Actions Queue (#2406)
• ✅ unused Explicit Para Lifecycle w/ Upgrades and Downgrades (#2354)
• ✅ trivial Cancel Proxy Type (#2334)
• ✅ trivial Use Extensible Multiaddress in all Polkadot Runtimes (#2126)
• ✅ trivial Return number of keys removed when calling storage_kill on child trie (paritytech/substrate#8166)
• ✅ trivial Allow transfer_keep_alive to transfer all free balance (paritytech/substrate#8125)
• ✅ audited Move dust collection hook to outside of account mutate (paritytech/substrate#8087)
• ✅ trivial AURA: Switch to CurrentSlot instead of LastTimestamp (paritytech/substrate#8023)
• ✅ trivial contracts: Emit event on contract termination (paritytech/substrate#8014)
• ✅ trivial contracts: Charge rent for code storage (paritytech/substrate#7935)