Release-candidate v0.63.0-rc.1

[jansegre]

Changes

• fix: fix timestamps on gen-genesis CLI #1094
• feat: add sync-v2 benchmark to CI #1083
• feat(event-queue): add tx data to VERTEX_REMOVED #1106
• feat(mergedmining): support dummy mining on coordinator #966
• feat(metadata): create basic static metadata structures [part 1/12] #1013
• feat(cli): early protection for invalid prometheus prefix #1107
• chore(benchmark): improve benchmark CI #1112
• chore: update dependencies #998
• chore(ci): update default Python version used on docker images #1010
• fix(benchmark): fix CI on master #1117
• fix(benchmark): fix CI on master #1121
• chore: flake.nix creating a devshell with all fullnode dependencies needed to run the fullnode #1098
• chore: upgrade actions to a version that use node20 (LTS) #1123
• refactor(p2p): rename peer_id.PeerId to peer.Peer #1113
• refactor(p2p): use PeerId type instead of str #1114
• refactor(metadata): move metadata attributes to static metadata [part 2/12] #1014
• fix: healthcheck content-type #1110
• refactor(metadata): pre-refactors for migrating feature states to static metadata [part 3/12] #1016
• refactor(metadata): pre-refactors for migrating feature states to static metadata [part 4/12] #1017
• feat(ws): Add flow control to the tx history streamer #1126
• feat: enable cache by default #1125
• feat: improve load-from-logs CLI command #1132
• fix(ws): Add a graceful close mechanism to handle late messages and prevent errors #1129
• fix(api): status regression after p2p refactor #1134
• fix(ws): Fix tx history streamer wrong logging when pauseProducing() is called multiple times #1135
• fix: event handling of txs with custom scripts #1140
• refactor(benchmark): change benchmark CI to download data from logs in AWS #1133
• fix: removed txs from test wallet #1139
• chore: bump version to v0.63.0 #1141
• refactor(p2p): add PublicPeer and PrivatePeer to simplify Peer #1115
• chore: collect garbage collector metrics #1137
• refactor[websocket]: improve websocket factory start #1145
• fix(cli): subcommand quick_test not stopping after #1115 #1147
• refactor(static-metadata): undo migration of feature_states to static metadata #1146
• refactor(p2p): simplify factory [part 1/5] #1151
• fix(benchmark): fix benchmark CI after bencher update #1157
• refactor(settings): change wallets and reward lock to use injected settings #1148
• refactor: move can_validate_full method [part 2/8] #1153
• feat(consensus): Change meta.score and meta.accumulated_weight to int type #572
• chore: remove all migrations #1149
• refactor(vertex-handler): remove p2p_manager dependency [part 1/8] #1154
• chore: remove all unused features #1150
• chore: remove the limited support there was for Windows #1169
• refactor(p2p): refactor peer address handling [part 1/10] #1173
• feat(feature-activation): implement closest_block metadata and Feature Activation for Transactions #933
• chore(feature-activation): config NOP feature to test FA for transactions #1177
• chore: improve p2p protocol error logging #1179
• feat(dag-builder): Add a tool to generate vertices from a DAG description #1181
• feat(consensus): Use DAG of funds to set first_block #852
• ci: use macos-13 on Github Actions as macos-12 will be dropped #1185
• feat(p2p): Change sync-v2 main loop interval to one second #1184

Checklist

• I've read and followed the release candidate process described in https://github.com/HathorNetwork/ops-tools/blob/master/docs/release-guides/hathor-core.md#release-candidate
• I confirm this release candidate only includes production-ready changes