v7.0.0 tracking issue

[crodriguezvega]

Main additions to this release are:

02-client refactor

This refactor will make the development of light clients easier. The ibc-go implementation will finally align with the spec and light clients will be required to set their own client and consensus states. This will allow more flexibility for light clients to manage their own internal storage and do batch updates. See ADR 006 for more information.

Follow the progress with the beta and RC milestones or in the project board.

Upgrade SDK v0.47.x

Follow the progress with the milestone.

Add authz support to 20-transfer

See #2431 for more details.

Milestones

v7.0.0 milestone

IBC spec compatibility

v1.0

QA

Backwards compatibility

• Compatibility tests pass.
• Upgrade test pass.
• Interchain Accounts inter-tx tests pass.

Other testing

Migration

v6 to v7 migration docs

Checklist

• Bump go package version.
• Change all imports starting with github.com/cosmos/ibc-go/v6 to github.com/cosmos/ibc-go/v7.
• Branch off main to create release branch in the form of release/v7.0.x and add branch protection rules.
• Add branch protection rules to new release branch.
• Add backport task to mergify.yml.
• Set up compatibility tests for release/v7.0.x.
• Upgrade ibc-go version in ibctest.
• Check migration docs.
• Check Swagger is up-to-date.

Post-release checklist

• Update CHANGELOG.md
• Update the table of supported release lines (and End of Life dates) in RELEASES.md:
  • Add the new release line.
  • Remove any release lines that might have become discontinued.
• Update version matrix in RELEASES.md:
  • Add the new release.
  • Remove any tags that might not be recommended anymore.
• Update the list of supported release lines in README.md, if necessary.
• Update docs site:
  • Add new release branch to docs/versions file.
  • Add label and key to versions array in config.js.
• Bump ibc-go version in cosmos/interchain-accounts-demo repository and create a tag.
• Update the compatibility test matrices:
  • Add the new release.
  • Remove any tags that might not be recommended anymore.
• Update the manual e2e simd and e2e icad test workflows:
  • Add the new release and the new icad tag.
  • Remove any tags that might not be recommended anymore.
• After changes to docs site are deployed, check ibc.cosmos.network is updated.
• Open issue in SDK tutorials repo to update tutorials to the released version of ibc-go.

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[gjermundgaraba]

Looking at the tracking it looks like this is getting pretty close. Are there any plans for a beta or rc release? We would like to start testing v7 on our 0.47-rc chain.

Edit: nevermind me... I missed the fact that a beta had been tagged, because I was just looking in the releases section. Sorry about that... Carry on!

[crodriguezvega]

Edit: nevermind me... I missed the fact that a beta had been tagged, because I was just looking in the releases section. Sorry about that... Carry on!

Indeed, we tagged v7.0.0-beta2 last week and we will have the first RC probably next week at the latest.

[crodriguezvega]

Compatibility tests pass before v7.0.0-rc1.

Will run upgrade and interchain accounts test after tagging rc1.

[crodriguezvega]

Before final release:

• Compatibility tests pass.
• Upgrade test pass.
• Interchain Accounts inter-tx test pass.

[crodriguezvega]

Closed by v7.0.0