Bump github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum from 1.9.15 to 1.9.17

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Bumps github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum from 1.9.15 to 1.9.17.

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Mount Milgrom (v1.9.17)

Geth v1.9.17 is a small maintenance release (trying to get back onto the biweekly schedule), though it does pack a few punches as well!

• Enable historical garbage collection for light clients (#19570).
• Apply --rpc.txfeecap to a few missed endpoints (#21231).
• Drastically reduce allocations in the transaction pool (#21328).
• Drastically reduce allocations on certain EVM opcodes (#21222).
• Raise the default gas limit in --dev mode to 12 million (#21323).
• Fix ethstats reconnect issue and fix constant Görli drops (#21347).
• Fix gas estimation if balance / price overflown uint64 (#21346).

For a full rundown of the changes please consult the Geth 1.9.17 release milestone

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As with all our previous releases, you can find the:

• Pre-built binaries for all platforms on our downloads page.
• Docker images published under ethereum/client-go.
• Ubuntu packages in our Launchpad PPA repository.
• OSX packages in our Homebrew Tap repository.

Ryncol (v1.9.16)

Geth v1.9.16 is another maintenance release containing a couple minor new features, bug fixes, and block processing optimizations.

This release adds the --rpc.txfeecap geth option, which limits transaction fees to a set value. This limit applies to transactions sent via eth_sendTransaction. The default limit is 1 ether. (#21212)

The default value for --rpc.gascap is now 25M gas. It previously defaulted to unlimited gas. This applies to eth_call and will reject calls which request more gas than the cap. (#21229)

Minor new features:

• You can now run the metrics HTTP server on a separate endpoint. (#21290)
• Protocol message metrics now count the number of messages in addition to bandwidth. (#21256)
• The geth import command now exits with status 1 if errors have occurred. (#21244)
• The debug_traceTransaction RPC method now includes read storage entries in structlog output. (#21204)
• cmd/evm: add state transition tool for testing (#20958)
• cmd/devp2p: the devp2p tool now contains a test suite for Discovery v4 (#21163)
• cmd/devp2p: the new devp2p key command family provides node key management tools (#21202)
• cmd/ethkey: you can now use the --passwordfile option with the ethkey generate command (#21183)

Optimizations:

• The EVM now uses the 'uint256' library, improving the performance of math-heavy calls. (#20787, #21206)
• The LES server no longer queries the checkpoint contract for every peer connection, reducing CPU usage. (#21285)
• The gas price oracle now requires significantly less bandwidth when using the light client. (#20409)
• The RLP encoder allocates a lot less, especially for big.Int, [N]byte and list-heavy data structures. (#21291, #21274)
• The github.com/golang/snappy dependency has been updated and includes a couple new new optimizations, including an assembly language implementation for arm64. (#21237, #21304)
• crypto, core/types: less allocations when hashing and tx handling (#21265)
• trie: reduce allocations in insertPreimage (#21261)
• crypto/secp256k1: enable 128-bit int code and endomorphism optimization (#21203)

Commits

• 748f22c params: release Geth v1.9.17
• 43e2e58 accounts, internal: fix funding check when estimating gas (#21346)
• 35ddf36 Merge pull request #21347 from karalabe/ethstats-fixes
• 0fef66c ethstats: fix reconnection issue, implement primus pings
• 9e88224 core: raise gas limit in --dev mode, seed blake precompile (#21323)
• 2956937 core/vm: less allocations for various call variants (#21222)
• 240d185 trie: quell linter in commiter.go (#21329)
• 6c9f040 core: transaction pool optimizations (#21328)
• 5b081ab cmd/clef: change --rpcport to --http.port and update flags in docs (#21318)
• 6ef4495 p2p/discover: require table nodes to have an IP (#21330)
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