release: prepare for release v1.7.0-alpha

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Description

v1.7.0-alpha is a preview release for upstream code sync, it catches up with go-ethereum release [v1.16.7] and also include several bug fix and improvements.

Rationale

tell us why we need these changes...

Example

add an example CLI or API response...

Changes

Code Sync

• upstream: merge geth-v1.16.2 ～ geth-v1.16.7
  Key changes from the code sync include:
  • Osaka:
    • Implement EIP-7823 - Set upper bounds for MODEXP
    • Implement EIP-7825 - Transaction Gas Limit Cap.
    • Implement EIP-7883 - ModExp Gas Cost Increase.
    • Implement EIP-7918 - Blob base fee bounded by execution cost.
    • Implement EIP-7934 - RLP Execution Block Size Limit.
    • Implement EIP-7939 - CLZ opcode.
    • Implement EIP-7951 - Precompile for secp256r1 Curve Support.
  • eth_sendRawTransactionSync: Synchronous transaction submission
  • Performance Optimizations: Multiple improvements to enhance overall performance
  • Code Refactoring: Major cleanup and improvements to components including:
    • TriePrefetcher prefetch trie nodes in a account in parallel.
    • Introduced a file-based state journal and refactored state history writes

FEATURE

• internal/ethapi: recover GetDiffAccounts and GetDiffAccountsWithScope

IMPROVEMENT

• miner: enable more prefetch threads in local mining mode
• miner/minerconfig: get defaultNoInterruptLeftOver automatically

BUGFIX

• core/state: fix handleDestruction for fast node (#3501,#3517,#3519)
• fix: add back Contract CodeAddr for superinstruction
• fix: fix pruned node init filtermap err

Others

• ci: upgrade github actions to latest versions
• ci: ignore nancy failre of [email protected]