**Motion 269 upgrading Kusama Runtime to v2028 is up for vote**.

Upgrade priority: Low (upgrade at your convenience). 

**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, 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).

 Schedule a majority-carries referendum to be tabled next once it is legal to schedule
 an external referendum.

 The dispatch of this call must be `ExternalMajorityOrigin`.

 - `proposal_hash`: The preimage hash of the proposal.

 Unlike `external_propose`, blacklisting has no effect on this and it may replace a
 pre-scheduled `external_propose` call.

 Weight: `O(1)`

- There is a motion to upgrade Kusama Runtime to v2028.
- The upgrade priority is low, so it can be done whenever convenient.
- 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 multiaddress format in all runtimes.
- More information can be found in the release notes and runtime changes on the provided link.

#269 Upgrade of Kusama Runtime to v2028