Polkadot Protocol Specifications v0.3.1

Major Changes List:

• Added CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md by @Noc2 in #601
• Reorganised of Chapters and Sections and Light Client Chapter by @FlorianFranzen @bhargavbh in #597
• Updated Runtime APIs by @bhargavbh in #643
• Updated Host APIs by @bhargavbh in #642
• Section on Authority Set Discovery added in Networking chapter by @heversonbr in #669
• Added Chain Specification Section by @bhargavbh in #659
• Removed BEEFY stub sections by @bhargavbh in #673
• Formation of Spec Committee and Defined Clear rules to merge PRs by @Noc2 in #678

What's Changed

• Light Client Warp Sync: Fix typos and improve formatting of new warp sync by @vikinatora in #621
• [PoC/WIP] Spec version 3 of clear_prefix and kill_storage by @lamafab in #592
• [PoC/WIP] Abort Handler Host API by @lamafab in #593
• Fix ChildrenBitmap definition by @HyunggyuJang in #619
• Fix algorithm Aggregate-Key: $N_i$ to $N$ by @HyunggyuJang in #618
• Update Extrinsic Signature description by @lamafab in #622
• Add additional inherent identifiers by @lamafab in #623
• Revert "[PoC/WIP] Spec version 3 of clear_prefix and kill_storage" by @lamafab in #624
• Fix return type of ext_default_child_storage_root_version_2 by @tomaka in #626
• Fix broken link by @alan-null in #630
• Migration to docusaurus by @0xCaso in #638
• Publish website by @0xCaso in #639
• corrected wrong usage of authority-set-id and authority-list by @bhargavbh in #640
• metadata: fix format of constants by @FlorianFranzen in #641
• Added missing Host APIs on Offchain Index and Logging by @bhargavbh in #642
• Add note on maybe-compressed runtime wasm blobs by @bhargavbh in #644
• Update Runtime APIs by @0xCaso in #643
• corrections to compact encoding when n>= 2^30 by @bhargavbh in #655
• Added Chain Specification Section by @bhargavbh in #659
• Split the polkadot-spec repo into two parts by @0xCaso in #664
• docs(runtime/tx-payment-call-api): exported names by @failfmi in #665
• Edit README - local dev by @0xCaso in #666
• Create CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md by @Noc2 in #671
• remove BEEFY stub sections by @bhargavbh in #673
• Update chap-sync.md by @Noc2 in #676
• clarify that authority weights are set to 1 in Polkadot by @bhargavbh in #675
• Spell checking v0.1 by @Noc2 in #677
• Update id-cryptography-encoding.md by @Noc2 in #679
• Update chap-networking.md by @Noc2 in #680
• minor fix by @heversonbr in #683
• Correcting minor issues by @heversonbr in #684
• BABE: added reusing last epoch data in case of skipped epochs by @bhargavbh in #685
• Issue 650 authority discovery by @heversonbr in #669
• update identity section of network chapter by @heversonbr in #689
• removed the misleading requirement on state update by @bhargavbh in #690
• Fix typo "Polkodat" in AnV chapter by @laboon in #691
• Fix typo "apriori" -> "a priori" by @laboon in #693
• Various minor fixes to block production page by @laboon in #695
• Missing words and link added by @bhargavbh in #696
• Fixup merkle-value by @bkchr in #698
• range of the merkle value function fixed by @bhargavbh in #699
• Draft: Defining clear rules regarding merging a PR by @Noc2 in #678
• Controller keys deprecation by @heversonbr in #700
• fix genesis state by @tjjfvi in #703
• Update the definition of stage by @heversonbr in #704
• Revert "Fixup merkle-value" by @tjjfvi in #702
• fix: missing information about SCALE encoding on HttpRequestStatus codes by @heversonbr in #705

New Contributors

• @vikinatora made their first contribution in #621
• @alan-null made their first contribution in #630
• @0xCaso made their first contribution in #638
• @failfmi made their first contribution in #665
• @heversonbr made their first contribution in #683
• @laboon made their first contribution in #691
• @bkchr made their first contribution in #698
• @tjjfvi made their first contribution in #703

Full Changelog: v0.2.2-beta1...v0.3.1-beta