v2.4.4-rc.1

What's Changed

• Add Interstellar CI by @otherview in #1604
• Ignore zizmor for Interstellar-e2e by @otherview in #1605
• Fix zizmor path by @otherview in #1607
• Update dockerfile to alpine 3.23.3 by @otherview in #1608
• replace latest with master gosec action by @paologalligit in #1621
• ignore gosec false positives by @paologalligit in #1622
• ci: bump codecov-action to v5.5.5 to fix GPG key import by @libotony in #1626
• Add inverted range early return + tests by @otherview in #1628
• build(deps): bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.49.0 to 0.52.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #1627
• Runtime feature toggles via admin server by @libotony in #1620
• build(deps): bump golang.org/x/net from 0.54.0 to 0.55.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #1625
• build: bump Go to 1.26.5 and alpine to 3.24.1 by @libotony in #1629
• Paolo/txpool metrics by @paologalligit in #1619
• refactor code and clean up by @paologalligit in #1633
• ci(gosec): use go.mod for Go version + add manual trigger by @libotony in #1634
• bft: use post-housekeep state for PoS threshold by @libotony in #1630
• feat: add offset limit to logs pagination and db metrics by @moglu2017 in #1632
• txpool: improve tx pricing logic and simplify re-pricing logic by @libotony in #1631
• ci(gosec): let gosec container fetch required Go toolchain by @libotony in #1635
• prepare release: update docs&bump version by @libotony in #1636

Full Changelog: v2.4.3...v2.4.4-rc.1