📣 Masa Bittensor release v0.8

[Luka-Loncar]

📖 Documentation

• https://github.com/masa-finance/product-issues/issues/62

🌍 Subnet

• spike: Improve Bittensor Subnet Reward System masa-bittensor#225
• feat: improved reward system masa-bittensor#227
• feat: PingMiner Timeout and Sample Size masa-bittensor#226
• Spike: Rewards distribution research - OTF feedback and other validators feedback masa-bittensor#223
• Properly define a structure for rewards  masa-bittensor#172

🔦 Highlights
We are working on feedback from Bittensor validators in order to improve rewards system.

✅ Release Checklist for v0.8

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• Run pip list --outdated to check for outdated dependencies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 v0.8

Release Notes

• Update release notes text for v0.8
• Ensure release notes are ready for publication to dev docs

Docker

• Confirm Docker images are published correctly for v0.8

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