Proposing: v1.2.4 Release

[joepetrowski]

Based on the discussion in the last Fellowship call about smaller patch releases and holding off on v1.3.0 for Coretime, I would propose the following:

v1.2.3 (Coretime only)

• Add migrations to onboard people immediately and tidy up previous intervention #286 (needed to onboard People and re-enable Identity functionality on Kusama)

v1.2.4

• Remove XCM SafeCallFilter for chains using Weights::v2 #285
• [pallet-balances] backport #3865 paritytech/polkadot-sdk#4398 / Update pallet-balances to 29.0.2 #309
• kusama chains: allow arbitrary XCM execution #261
• Remove DMP Queue and Allow system::authorize_upgrade in XCM #280
• Add Patch and Migration to Release Collator Bonds #289
• (tests) Add Pay Salary Collectives test #260
• (tests) Collectives tests: Teleports and Whitelist Call #251
• (maybe?) The Ambassador Program #291
• Drop ED Requirement for Transaction Payment with Exchangeable Asset #310

I think this could be a parachains-only release, although the Ambassador Program might involve modifying the Fellowship Admin track on the Relay Chain.

Note: We actually need to be careful not to upgrade the Kusama Relay Chain until the People Chain is live, because the Identity Reaper (now guarded by Root) will become open, and it needs a parachain to send to.

[bkchr]

- [ ] paritytech/polkadot-sdk#4274

Edit:

Will come with 1.2.5

[seadanda]

• Remove one-shot migrations from Kusama Coretime #300

Just in case the intention is to include all runtimes in the release. Kusama Coretime should not be bumped without this PR.

[joepetrowski]

Just in case the intention is to include all runtimes in the release. Kusama Coretime should not be bumped without this PR.

Yeah with the SafeCallFilter PR and Basti's we will want to bump everything.

[acatangiu]

• Add pallet-xcm::transfer_assets_using_type_and_then() for complex asset transfers #311

To facilitate moving bridged assets around the ecosystem.

[pandres95]

@joepetrowski, Maybe?

• Allow Sending XCM messages using a Signed origin on Kusama #290

Honestly it's a perfect match for other XCM related PRs, and how it is right now, it's small enough not to require immense amounts of testing (I've done some tests myself of how this might work using Chopsticks).

We can then make the same modification for similar chains in the future.

[claravanstaden]

• Unstuck Snowbridge #313

To fix Snowbridge Ethereum consensus updates being rejected and resets the Ethereum client checkpoint.

[Ank4n]

Would like to propose following to be added to v1.2.4

• Bump staking and nomination pools #318

Contains the following updates:

• [staking-runtime-api] Backport of #4301 to sdk 1.7.0 paritytech/polkadot-sdk#4525
• [nomination-pools] Backport of #4503. Fix pools with extra consumer ref to be destroyed.  paritytech/polkadot-sdk#4524

[joepetrowski]

Get them in before #317 :)

Otherwise this train is off and they can go in #316

[Ank4n]

PR here: #318

[acatangiu]

@joepetrowski you can close this