Latest Changes (since 2.0.0-rc6)

Runtime

• Rename ModuleToIndex to PalletRuntimeSetup (#7148)
• Bounties (#5715)
• pallet-collective: allow customized default vote (#6984)
• add instantiable support for treasury pallet (#7058)
• frame/authority-discovery: Have authorities() return both current and next (#6788)
• add generated weight info for pallet-collective (#6789)
• Support Staking Payout to Any Account (#6832)
• Time-delay proxies (#6770)
• Refcounts are now u32 (#7164)

Client

• Rename inspect-key to inspect (#7160)
• Send import notification always for re-orgs (#7118)
• Allow remotes to not open a legacy substream (#7075)
• Fix storage::read (#7084)
• Support hex encoded secret key for --node-key (#7052)
• Update the service tasks Grafana dashboard (#7038)
• manual seal is now consensus agnostic (#7010)
• Move subcommands from sc-cli to nodes (#6948)
• Implement request-responses protocols (#6634)
• fix bench db wipe (#6965)
• Fix benchmark read/write key tracker for keys in child storages. (#6905)
• *: Update to next libp2p version 0.24.0 (#6891)

API

• grandpa-rpc: use FinalityProofProvider to check finality for rpc (#6215)
• pow: replace the thread-base mining loop with a future-based mining worker (#7060)
• Tracing for wasm with bridging to native (#6916)
• Frame-support storage: make iterations and translate consistent (#5470)
• pow: support uniform tie breaking in fork choice (#7073)
• Make decoding of compact<perthing> saturating instead of invalid (#7062)
• Set reserved nodes with offchain worker. (#6996)
• client/*: Treat protocol name as str and not [u8] (#6967)
• Add a LightSyncState field to the chain spec (#6894)
• *: Update to next libp2p version 0.24.0 (#6891)

Runtime Migrations

• Time-delay proxies (#6770)
• Refcounts are now u32 (#7164)