Automatic snapshot pre-release monthly-2021-07

Changes since last snapshot (monthly-2021-06)

Substrate changes

Runtime

• Improve Staking Limits (#9193)
• Decouple Staking and Election - Part 3: Signed Phase (#7910)
• contracts: Remove weight pre charging (#8976)
• Result<Option<>> rather than Option<Option<>> (#9119)
• Add Control to Growth of the Staking Pallet (#8920)
• Frame remove_all with size limit. (#9106)
• staking/election: prolonged era and emergency mode for governance submission. (#8912)
• Enforce pub calls in pallets (#9085)
• Migrate pallet-staking to pallet attribute macro (#9083)
• contracts: Add new seal_call that offers new features (#8909)
• update ss58 type to u16 (#8955)
• Named reserve (#7778)
• Add Call Filter That Prevents Nested batch_all (#9009)
• Uniques: An economically-secure basic-featured NFT pallet (#8813)

Client

• Move client only primitives to another dir (#9220)
• Remove txpool as an export of sc_transaction_pool, exporting the used components instead. (#9217)
• Fast sync (#8884)
• double the allocator limit (#9102)
• Make it possible to override maximum payload of RPC (#9019)
• Decommit instance memory after a runtime call on Linux (#8998)
• rpc-http-threads cli arg (#8890)
• Transaction pool: Ensure that we prune transactions properly (#8963)
• Update wasmtime to 0.27 (#8913)

API

• Emit error when construct_runtime imports a non-existent pallet part (#8949)
• Allow renaming storage item prefixes (#9016)
• Enforce pub calls in pallets (#9085)
• Stop sending network_state to telemetry (#9026)
• Use pallet names to name enum variants (#8990)
• Delete legacy runtime metadata macros (#9043)
• Storage chain: Runtime module (#8624)
• Allow usage of path in construct_runtime! (#8801)