Burn in release of 23.7.3 from main (inclusive of sha eef40bd)

[siladu]

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Drop Kotti Network support (ETC) (#5816)

fix ForkId if there are no Forks and the starting timestamp is not 0 (#5819)

enforce that BlobTransactions have at least one blob (#5826)

• enforce that BlobTransactions have at least one blob

Do not create ignorable segments on revert storage-variables (#5830)

• fix the bug that creates the ignorable chain pruner segment, add rocks exception parsing to RocksDBColumnarKeyValueStorage subclasses
• parse rocksdb error for unprintable column family id's

add versioned hashes and number of blobs to toString() (#5831)

add parent beacon block root to payload id calculation (#5843)

bump version to 23.7.3-SNAPSHOT (#5854)

set the beacon root address to the correct value (#5853)

docs(readme): fix broken link to installation of binaries page (#5859)

Fixes #5858

Update RocksDB version from 8.0.0 to 8.3.2 (#5832)

use non-deprecated authenticate methods (#5852)

move to Hyperledger shared runners for current github actions (#5860)

Add range tracing with worldstate (#5844)

Implement a method to trace a range of blocks and have access to the worldstate before and after the tracing

Layered txpool by default and txpool options hoverhaul (#5772)

Fix issue 5824 - Duplicate key errors in EthScheduler-Transactions (#5857)

Fix issue 5824 - Duplicate key errors in EthScheduler-Transactions

updated gradle verification metadata (#5870)

• removed old artefacts [skip ci]

• works with compileTestJava

• restored metadata needed for codeQL and trusted-artifacts block for javadoc/sources

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[4844] Add encodingContext to TransactionEncoder and TransactionDecoder (#5820)

• Add decode type to TransactionDecoder

• Refactoring TransactionDecoder

• Invert methods order

• Use Transaction encoder instead of writeTo

• Move enter and leave list to inner method as pr suggestion

• Size calculation should use opaque bytes instead of rlp

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payload attributes: fix wrong warning and fail if beacon root is available before cancun (#5872)

Merge MutableAccount and EVMAccount (#5863)

Merge MutableAccount and EVMAccount functionalities by removing EVMAccount, all calls to getMutable, and the WrappedEVMAccount that was wrapping non-EVMAccounts in a mutable fashion. Instead, use a MutableAccount in all cases an EVMAccount would have been used. This also tends to reduce a level of layering in many places.

Add world context to transaction tracing API (#5836)

• Add world context to transaction tracing API

• Update changelog with PR ID

• Add the Transaction to traceEndTransaction

• Rebase on main

• Add receipt-linked information to the transaction tracer

• added test

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Bonsai based reference test worldstate (#5686)

• create a bonsai based reference test worldstate -> getOrCreate in BonsaiWorldStateUpdateAccumulator - do not throw if we discover an empty account in a non-null BonsaiValue -> add curentStateRoot to t8n -> storageEntriesFrom and streamAccounts implemented in BonsaiWorldStateKeyValueStorage -> add endKey version of streamFromKey
• bonsai fix for self-destruct and create2 at the same address and same block

Don't start BFT mining coordinators until initial sync has completed (#5861)

• Don't start BFT mining coordinators until initial sync has completed

• Fix unit tests

• Fix 'enable' logic

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display only peers ready for requets on ethstats (#5880)

• display only ready for requets peers in ethstats

• cast to int

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[MINOR] test RLP used for encode/decode blob tx should contain to field (#5883)

• validate to field on encode/decode for blob tx

• revert decode/encode checks - tis done later in tx validation

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Fix: correctly convert percentage options in TOML configuration file (#5886)

EIP7516 - Add BlobBaseFee opcode to Cancun EVM (#5884)

Fix snapsync heal (#5838)

Upgrade besu-native (#5893)

Upgrade besu-native to 0.8.2

Tune G1GC to reduce Besu memory footprint (#5879)

Add updated storage to evmtool json trace (#5892)

Add the EIP-3155 "storage" option to the standard tracer, with the caveat only updated storage is logged.

Update holesky with fixed extraData, genesis time, shanghaiTime (#5890)

[CHANGELOG] removed duplicated line (#5904)

• removed duplicated line [skip ci]

• fixed spelling on Holesky

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[macfarla]

wowsers

what git commands did you use in the end to get this mega commit?