**Motion 62 upgrading Polkadot Runtime to v28 is up for vote.**

**Some interesting changes:** treasury tip slashes, free participation in Council governance for first-timers, refactor treasury pallet, changes for validators session keys to account for parachains, Introduction of account existence providers reference counting and extensive multiaddress format in all runtimes. 

Release notes, runtime changes and hash can be found [here](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot/releases/tag/v0.8.28).

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- There is a motion to upgrade Polkadot Runtime to version 28.
- Some interesting changes include treasury tip slashes and free participation in Council governance for first-timers.
- There are also changes for validators session keys and the introduction of account existence providers reference counting.
- You can find more information about the changes in the release notes and runtime changes.
- The link to the release notes and hash can be found [here](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot/releases/tag/v0.8.28).

#62 Upgrade of Polkadot Runtime to v28