**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 the currently externally-proposed majority-carries referendum to be tabled
 immediately. If there is no externally-proposed referendum currently, or if there is one
 but it is not a majority-carries referendum then it fails.

 The dispatch of this call must be `FastTrackOrigin`.

 - `proposal_hash`: The hash of the current external proposal.
 - `voting_period`: The period that is allowed for voting on this proposal. Increased to
   `FastTrackVotingPeriod` if too low.
 - `delay`: The number of block after voting has ended in approval and this should be
   enacted. This doesn't have a minimum amount.

 Emits `Started`.

 Weight: `O(1)`

- There is a proposal to upgrade the Kusama Runtime to v2028.
- The upgrade priority is low, so it can be done whenever it is convenient.
- Some interesting changes include treasury tip slashes, free participation in Council governance for first-timers, and changes for validators session keys.
- You can find more information about the changes and the upgrade on this [link](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot/releases/tag/v0.8.28).
- In short, they want to make some improvements to the Kusama Runtime, and people can vote on whether or not to do it.

#59 Upgrade of Kusama Runtime to v2028