Merge Spica into master

[iulianpascalau]

Reasoning behind the pull request

Proposed changes

Testing procedure

Pre-requisites

Based on the Contributing Guidelines the PR author and the reviewers must check the following requirements are met:

• was the PR targeted to the correct branch?
• if this is a larger feature that probably needs more than one PR, is there a feat branch created?
• if this is a feat branch merging, do all satellite projects have a proper tag inside go.mod?

[codecov]

Codecov Report

Attention: Patch coverage is 77.48593% with 240 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.

Project coverage is 78.72%. Comparing base (a5d1509) to head (d2b858d).
Report is 7 commits behind head on master.

Files	Patch %	Lines
node/chainSimulator/chainSimulator.go	0.00%	56 Missing ⚠️
node/external/transactionAPI/unmarshaller.go	48.64%	35 Missing and 3 partials ⚠️
...ode/chainSimulator/components/processComponents.go	0.00%	27 Missing ⚠️
...hainSimulator/components/testOnlyProcessingNode.go	0.00%	25 Missing ⚠️
api/groups/transactionGroup.go	83.78%	22 Missing and 2 partials ⚠️
...external/transactionAPI/apiTransactionProcessor.go	70.83%	8 Missing and 6 partials ⚠️
common/enablers/enableEpochsHandler.go	42.85%	12 Missing ⚠️
node/chainSimulator/components/syncedTxsSender.go	84.78%	5 Missing and 2 partials ⚠️
common/holders/rootHashHolder.go	20.00%	4 Missing ⚠️
factory/processing/blockProcessorCreator.go	94.80%	2 Missing and 2 partials ⚠️
... and 13 more

Additional details and impacted files

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##           master    #5896      +/-   ##
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+ Coverage   78.71%   78.72%   +0.01%     
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  Files         752      755       +3     
  Lines       98265    99607    +1342     
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+ Hits        77345    78414    +1069     
- Misses      15676    15910     +234     
- Partials     5244     5283      +39     

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• mx-chain-simulator-go Target Branch: rc/v1.7.next1
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• mx-chain-simulator-go Target Branch: rc/v1.7.next1
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