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+## 1. Purpose or design rationale of this PR
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+...
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+## 2. Deployment tag versioning
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+Has the version in `params/version.go` been updated?
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+- [ ] This PR doesn't involve a new deployment, git tag, docker image tag, and it doesn't affect traces
+- [ ] Yes
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