Backport missing functionalities for cumulus (#2176)

This PR backports missing PR's needed for 1.3.0 cumulus release:
#2042
#2139
#2129
#1967
#2021
#1887
#2023

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Co-authored-by: Branislav Kontur <bkontur@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Lulu <morgan@parity.io>
Co-authored-by: Sergejs Kostjucenko <85877331+sergejparity@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Bastian Köcher <info@kchr.de>
Co-authored-by: Serban Iorga <serban@parity.io>
Co-authored-by: Adrian Catangiu <adrian@parity.io>
Co-authored-by: joe petrowski <25483142+joepetrowski@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Svyatoslav Nikolsky <svyatonik@gmail.com>

.github/workflows/check-publish.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+name: Check publish
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - master
+  pull_request:
+    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened, ready_for_review]
+
+jobs:
+  check-publish:
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        os: ["ubuntu-latest"]
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@8ade135a41bc03ea155e62e844d188df1ea18608 # v4.1.0
+
+      - name: Rust Cache
+        uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@3cf7f8cc28d1b4e7d01e3783be10a97d55d483c8 # v2.7.1
+        with:
+          cache-on-failure: true
+
+      - name: install parity-publish
+        run: cargo install parity-publish --profile dev
+
+      - name: parity-publish check
+        run: parity-publish check --allow-unpublished

.gitlab/pipeline/build.yml

@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ build-linux-substrate:
     # see https://github.com/paritytech/ci_cd/issues/682#issuecomment-1340953589
     - git checkout -B "$CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME" "$CI_COMMIT_SHA"
   script:
-    - WASM_BUILD_NO_COLOR=1 time cargo build --locked --release -p node-cli
+    - WASM_BUILD_NO_COLOR=1 time cargo build --locked --release -p staging-node-cli
     - mv $CARGO_TARGET_DIR/release/substrate-node ./artifacts/substrate/substrate
     - echo -n "Substrate version = "
     - if [ "${CI_COMMIT_TAG}" ]; then

.gitlab/pipeline/test.yml

@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ quick-benchmarks:
     WASM_BUILD_NO_COLOR: 1
     WASM_BUILD_RUSTFLAGS: "-C debug-assertions -D warnings"
   script:
-    - time cargo run --locked --release -p node-cli --bin substrate-node --features runtime-benchmarks -- benchmark pallet --execution wasm --wasm-execution compiled --chain dev --pallet "*" --extrinsic "*" --steps 2 --repeat 1
+    - time cargo run --locked --release -p staging-node-cli --bin substrate-node --features runtime-benchmarks -- benchmark pallet --execution wasm --wasm-execution compiled --chain dev --pallet "*" --extrinsic "*" --steps 2 --repeat 1
 
 test-frame-examples-compile-to-wasm:
   # into one job
@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ test-linux-stable-int:
   script:
     - WASM_BUILD_NO_COLOR=1
       RUST_LOG=sync=trace,consensus=trace,client=trace,state-db=trace,db=trace,forks=trace,state_db=trace,storage_cache=trace
-      time cargo test -p node-cli --release --locked -- --ignored
+      time cargo test -p staging-node-cli --release --locked -- --ignored
 
 # more information about this job can be found here:
 # https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/pull/6916