title: Collator protocol changes for elastic scaling doc: - audience: Node Dev description: | This PR introduces changes to the collator protocol to support elastic scaling. Namely, a new variant added to the collation response to include parent head-data along with the collation. Currently, the new variant is not being used. - audience: Node Operator description: | Validators are required to upgrade to this version before collators in order to support the elastic scaling of parachains. crates: - name: polkadot-collator-protocol bump: major - name: polkadot-node-network-protocol bump: major - name: polkadot-node-subsystem-types bump: major - name: polkadot-node-collation-generation bump: minor - name: polkadot-node-core-prospective-parachains bump: minor