Mainnet 1.7.2

This release targets the mainnet network and the testnet network.
For mainnet this release is backwards compatible with the previous v1.X.X releases.
For testnet this release is backwards compatible with previous v1.6.1+ releases.

What's Changed

What's changed

• exposing protocol upgrade version and readd txs to mempool upon protocol upgrade by @ii-cruz in #3800
• Updating security.md by @ii-cruz in #3858
• mktx by @jeffesquivels in #3811
• Time: patch gloo-timers locally by @Eligioo in #3845
• Fixing web client flaky tests by @ii-cruz in #3771
• Fix clippy warnings after the release of rust 1.97.0 by @jsdanielh in #3873
• fix(mktx): make required global --validity-start work with a single flag by @jsdanielh in #3875
• test: run curve differential tests on fixed edge cases to cut CI time by @jsdanielh in #3874
• Fix crate feature compilation by @jsdanielh in #3877
• web-client: return JsError instead of panicking on invalid signalData by @jsdanielh in #3883
• light-blockchain: reject election blocks with an undecodable VRF seed in pico sync by @jsdanielh in #3882
• Rename num_buffered_blocks to num_buffered_heights by @jsdanielh in #3900
• Fix pre-genesis history loss in HistoryStoreMerger pagination by @jsdanielh in #3899
• tendermint: set validValue for late proposals admitted in the precommit window by @nibhar in #3898
• Reset the proposal timeout on Tendermint skip-ahead by @nibhar in #3897
• Bound the Handel pending-contribution pool per sender by @nibhar in #3896
• Remove dead tree_from_chunks by @jsdanielh in #3895
• Sync the mempool's protocol version on ProtocolUpgrade events by @jsdanielh in #3890
• Abort macro block proposal creation on an incomplete accounts state by @jsdanielh in #3889
• fix(web-client): prevent WASM panics on malformed input by @jsdanielh in #3904

Dependencies

• build(deps): bump the minor-and-patch-cargo-updates group across 1 directory with 6 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #3859
• build(deps): bump docker/build-push-action from 7.2.0 to 7.3.0 in the minor-and-patch-actions-updates group across 1 directory by @dependabot[bot] in #3856
• build(deps): Upgrade to ark-* 0.5.0 by @jsdanielh in #3863
• build(deps): bump curve25519-dalek to 5.0.0 and sha2 to 0.11 by @jsdanielh in #3862
• build(deps): bump actions/setup-node from 6 to 7 by @dependabot[bot] in #3871
• build(deps): bump the minor-and-patch-cargo-updates group across 1 directory with 7 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #3876
• build(deps): bump num-bigint from 0.4.6 to 0.5.1 by @dependabot[bot] in #3881
• build(deps): Upgrade to ark-* 0.6.0 by @jsdanielh in #3885
• build(deps): bump the minor-and-patch-cargo-updates group across 1 directory with 15 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #3887
• build(deps): bump actions/setup-python from 6 to 7 by @dependabot[bot] in #3886
• build(deps): bump quinn-proto from 0.11.14 to 0.11.16 by @dependabot[bot] in #3903
• build(deps): bump postcss from 8.5.15 to 8.5.23 in /web-client/extras by @dependabot[bot] in #3902
• build(deps): bump the minor-and-patch-cargo-updates group across 1 directory with 4 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #3901

Full Changelog: v1.7.1...v1.7.2