**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).

- There is a vote to upgrade Polkadot Runtime to v28.
- Some interesting changes are being made, like 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 and the vote [here](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot/releases/tag/v0.8.28).
- Tl;dr: There are some changes being made to Polkadot and people are voting on whether to upgrade it or not.

#17 Upgrade of Polkadot Runtime to v28