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This PR backports fix for the docker publishing flow from master:
- https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/5896

Backport of the fix that prevents `parity-publish` from failing during
installation.

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Backport #5753 into `stable2409` from AndreiEres.

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Backport #5660 into `stable2409` from acatangiu.

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Backport #5649 into `stable2409` from bkontur.

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Backport #5655 into `stable2409` from ggwpez.

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Backport of #5509

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Backport #5327 into `stable2409` from bkontur.

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Backport #5671 into `stable2409` from claravanstaden.

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Backport #5563 into `stable2409` from acatangiu.

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Backport #5747 into `stable2409` from yrong.

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Backport #5594 into `stable2409` from Moliholy.

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Backport #5712 into `stable2409` from franciscoaguirre.

Now the XCM emulator has a log every time `execute_with` is called, to know
which chain is being used.
Also, the logs for UMP, DMP, HRMP processing were included in the `xcm` log filter
and changed from showing the message as an array of bytes to a hex string.
This means running the tests with `RUST_LOG=xcm` should give you everything you
need, you can always filter by `RUST_LOG=xcm::hrmp` or any other if you need it.

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Backport #5713 into `stable2409` from bkchr.

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Backport #3049 into `stable2409` from bgallois.

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Backport #5580 into `stable2409` from gui1117.

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As requested here:
https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/5688#issuecomment-2352939516

I don't think it need to be backported to 2407, as the issue was not
present there yet.

Backport #5695 into `stable2409` from ggwpez.

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Backport https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/5678 into
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Backport #5644 into `stable2409` (cc @bkchr

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This backports https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/5127, to
the stable branch.

Unfortunately https://polkadot.subsquare.io/referenda/1051 passed after
the cut-off deadline and I missed the window of getting this PR merged.

The change itself is super low-risk it just prints a new message to
validators that starting with January 2025 the required minimum of
hardware cores will be 8, I see value in getting this in front of the
validators as soon as possible.

Since we did not release things yet and it does not invalidate any QA we
already did, it should be painless to include it in the current release.

(cherry picked from commit a947cb83)

Backport #5632 into `stable2409` (cc @clangenb).

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Backport #5581 into `stable2409` (cc @franciscoaguirre

).

The dry-run shows in `forwarded_xcms` all the messages in the queues
at the time of calling the API.
Each time the API is called, the result could be different.
You could get messages even if you dry-run something that doesn't send
a message, like a `System::remark`.

This commit fixes this by clearing the message queues before doing the
dry-run, so the only messages left are the ones the users of the API actually
care about.

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