v13: Merge feat/next into main

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➡️ Migration notes and support

➡️ Current cookbook

Relevant PRs:

• 🔵 Smart Contract intents factories #327
• 🔵 Delegation transaction intents factory #328
• 🔵 Token management transaction intents factory #329
• 🔵 Integrate the SC Intents Factory in the SmartContract Class #330
• 🔵 Update transaction factories to match the sdk-specs #339
• 🔵 Smart Contract transfer and execute #340
• 🔵 Transfer transactions factory #341
• 🔨 Breaking (but small) change: remove some previously deprecated items #352
• 🔨 Mark old stuff as deprecated #360
• 🔵 Fix flags when creating token operations transactions #362
• ❗ Set Default Transaction Version=2 and fix failing unit tests #365
• 🔵 Implemented the Transaction class #366
• 🔵 Implemented the Relayed Transactions Factory #369
• 🔵 Refactoring DraftTransaction to TransactionNext #376
• 🔵 Implemented the Message and MessageComputer classes #378
• 🔵 Implemented Token Management Transactions Outcome Parser #381
• 🔨 Address wrt. specs (partially). Additional minor breaking changes. #383
• 🔵 Replaced BigNumber with BigInt #384
• 🔵 Refactor Transaction Watcher #386
• 🔵 Changed the constructor of TransactionFactoryConfig #387
• 🔵 Add smart contract queries controller #394
• 🔵 Adaptor for executing smart contract queries #395
• 🔨 (small breaking change) Merge v13's "TransactionNext" into the existing "Transaction" class #396
• ❗ Re-write type expression parser #398
• 🔵 Change token management transactions parser according to the sdk-specs #401
• 🔵 Delegation transactions outcome parser #402
• 🔵 Refactored the constructors for the transactions factories #403
• 🔵 Refactor TransactionWatcher to accept either Transaction or hash #404
• 🔵 Merge "legacy" transfer transactions factory in NextTransferTransactionsFactory #405
• 🔵 Transaction signing by hash #406
• ❗ "protobufjs" simplifications #407
• 🔵 Implement: Smart Contract Transactions Outcome Parser #408
• 🔵 More robust conversion of plain object to Transaction (same as v12) #409
• 🔵 TX outcome parsers - minor refactoring - move (extract) common operations  #410
• 🔵 Addeed a method to apply options for hash signing #411
• 🔵 Changed topics type to UInt8Array #412
• 🔵 Implement "TransactionEventsParser" #413
• 🔵 "LegacyTokenTransfer" vs. "NextTokenTransfer" #414
• ⚙️ Instantiate version and options using Number #415
• ⚙️ Removed options check for hash signing #416
• ⚙️ Hotfix (regression): interaction (legacy API) with ABI, with transfers (transfer & execute) #420
• ⚙️ Revert interaction error to warning #421
• 🔵 Removed Smart Contract Transactions Factory dependency #422
• 🔵 Implemented Address Computer #423
• 🔵 SmartContractTransactionsOutcomeParser - parseDeploy() #424
• 🔵 Rename parameters wrt. specs: function, arguments #429
• 🔵 Fix events parsing (deciding on event identifier) #431
• 🔵 add method to compute bytes for verifying transaction signature #432

Legend:

• 🔵 - new features or refactoring; non-breaking changes.
• 🔨 - breaking changes - all breaking changes brought by v13 are small
• ❗ - changes that might produce not-yet-detected regressions
• ⚙️ - regression (fix)

Handled issues:

• Enforce setting "sender" (instead of emitting a console WARN) #291
• Proposal: uniformize transaction factories #293
• Setup eslint on sdk-js-* #319
• Rewrite "TypeExpressionParser" #344
• Use BigInt instead of BigNumber #371
• TokenOperationsOutcomeParser: error when a transaction has multiple events #397