📣 Masa Bittensor release v1.1

[Luka-Loncar]

🗺 What's left for release

The scope of this release is to implement the first MIP for Masa subnet - https://github.com/masa-finance/mip/blob/mip--subnet-miner-competition/MIP/002-miner-competition.md

🌍 Subnet

• Feat: Deploy private subnet node for Masa masa-bittensor#239
• Upgrade BT SDK to 8.2.0 masa-bittensor#273
• [SPIKE]: Publish Miner Competition MIP  masa-bittensor#295
• fix: pydantic errors in miner masa-bittensor#283
• spike: twitter queries for improved fairness and usefulness masa-bittensor#282
• [ISSUE]: Validator Integration of Masa SDK Trending Tweets masa-bittensor#297
• [ISSUE]: Reduce Randomness In Validator Miner Querying masa-bittensor#300
• [ISSUE]: Increase Tweet Count and Timeout masa-bittensor#298
• [ISSUE]: Masa SDK to Support Trending Tweets masa-bittensor#296
• [ISSUE]: Validator to Store Tweets by Hotkey (Miner) masa-bittensor#299

🧪 Code testing

• Add CI test coverage masa-bittensor#253
• GH action for testing miner / validator masa-bittensor#117

🤖 CI and release process

• None for this release

🖥️ Infra

• Moved all of tasks from here to v1.2 release

📖 Documentation

• Docs: Update Masa Documentation for Configuring Residential Proxy masa-bittensor#259
• Get list of validator contacts so we can communicate with them more efficiently masa-bittensor#274

Release Checklist for v1.0

🚓 Security

• Run pip list --outdated to check for outdated dependencies
• Update dependencies if necessary and run pip freeze > requirements.txt

📦 Continuous Integration (CI)

Verify all CI tests are passing:

• Docker Build and Publish / check-and-build (subtensor)
• Docker Build and Publish / check-and-build (subnet)
• Docker Build and Publish / check-and-build (miner)
• Docker Build and Publish / check-and-build (validator)
• Docker Build and Publish / check-and-build (protocol)

🉐 Tagging

• Tag the masa-bittensor release for v1.0

🎶 Release Notes

• Update release notes text for v1.0
• Ensure release notes are ready for publication to dev docs
• Docker
• Confirm Docker images are published correctly for v1.0

📁 Documentation

• Review and update installation instructions if needed
• Ensure API documentation is up-to-date
• Verify validator and miner requirement documentation is current

🏁 Final Checks

• Verify there are no critical open issues blocking the release
• Conduct a final review of all changes included in this release

📣 Notifications

• Notify @giovaroma and @lacyg4 upon completion of release preparations activity
• Notify DCG about the new version