v2.0.0-alpha.6 – Alligator

Changelog 2.0.0-alpha.5 -> 2.0.0-alpha.6

Runtime

• Unsigned Validation best practices (#5563)
• Generate Unit Tests for Benchmarks (#5527)
• Mandate weight annotation (#5357)
• Make Staking pallet using a proper Time module. (#4662)
• Pass transaction source to validate_transaction (#5366)
• on_initialize return weight consumed and default cost to default DispatchInfo instead of zero (#5382)

Client

• Add new RPC method to get the chain type (#5576)
• Reuse wasmtime instances, the PR (#5567)
• Prometheus Metrics: Turn notifications_total counter into notifications_sizes histogram (#5535)
• Make verbosity level mandatory with telemetry opt (#5057)
• Additional Metrics collected and exposed via prometheus (#5414)
• Switch to new light client protocol (#5472)
• client/finality-grandpa: Instrument until-imported queue (#5438)
• Batch benchmarks together with * notation. (#5436)
• src/service/src/builder: Fix memory metric exposed in bytes not KiB (#5459)
• Make transactions and block announces use notifications substre… (#5360)
• Adds state_queryStorageAt (#5362)
• Offchain Phragmén BREAKING. (#4517)
• sc_rpc::system::SystemInfo.impl_version now returns the full version (2.0.0-alpha.2-b950f731c-x86_64-linux-gnu) instead of the short version (1.0.0) (#5271)

API

• Unsigned Validation best practices (#5563)
• Split the Roles in three types (#5520)
• Pass transaction source to validate_transaction (#5366)
• on_initialize return weight consumed and default cost to default DispatchInfo instead of zero (#5382)