Testnet 0.18.0

What's Changed

• Move Proposal verification. Make sure predecessor exists. by @nibhar in #1967
• Fix clippy warning by @viquezclaudio in #1991
• Drop outdated proposals earlier by @nibhar in #1990
• Upgrade libp2p to version 0.53.1 by @jsdanielh in #1977
• Add RPC support for devnet script by @jeffesquivels in #1966
• Modify some test topologies to test full nodes by @viquezclaudio in #1995
• CI: Fix MacroBlockProduction and LowBlockProducerTimeout scenarios by @fiaxh in #1997
• Fix transaction builder docs by @paberr in #2002
• Validator network: Invalidate validator key->peer id cache on connect… by @fiaxh in #1989
• Missing blocks request improvements by @paberr in #2001
• Internally tag all web-client plain transaction data variants by @sisou in #2026
• Add spammer profile CI test by @viquezclaudio in #2011
• Optimize web-client build and auto-publish to npm from CI by @sisou in #2028
• network-libp2p: Re-implement request response codec by @jsdanielh in #2020
• network-libp2p: Allow the network to recover itself by @jsdanielh in #2010
• Add test for validator updates by @fiaxh in #2012
• Fix feature compilation for a couple of crates by @jsdanielh in #2031
• Update system requirements by @viquezclaudio in #2025
• Use Rust 1.74 feature for lints by @hrxi in #2032
• Equivocation proofs inclusion to history store by @ii-cruz in #2033
• Storing equivocation proofs before inherents to the history store by @ii-cruz in #2037
• Add fallen behind peers to the timeout collection as well. by @nibhar in #2039
• Change policy constants by @nibhar in #2003
• Improve ZKP circuits by @ii-cruz in #2044
• Revert "BlockQueue: only consider block announcements from synced peers" by @jsdanielh in #2043
• History store tests by @ii-cruz in #2045

Version bumps

• All current dependabot updates v2 by @hrxi in #1992
• Bump data-encoding from 2.4.0 to 2.5.0 by @dependabot in #1996
• Bump url from 2.4.1 to 2.5.0 by @dependabot in #2004
• Bump proc-macro2 from 1.0.69 to 1.0.70 by @dependabot in #2014
• Bump openssl from 0.10.55 to 0.10.60 by @dependabot in #2021
• Bump web-sys from 0.3.65 to 0.3.66 by @dependabot in #2022
• Bump wasm-bindgen-test from 0.3.38 to 0.3.39 by @dependabot in #2016
• Bump tracing-web from 0.1.2 to 0.1.3 by @dependabot in #2023
• Bump clap from 4.4.8 to 4.4.11 by @dependabot in #2029
• Bump actions/setup-node from 3 to 4 by @dependabot in #2030
• Bump rustls-pemfile from 1.0.4 to 2.0.0 by @dependabot in #2027
• Bump actions/setup-python from 4 to 5 by @dependabot in #2034
• Bump once_cell from 1.18.0 to 1.19.0 by @dependabot in #2036

Full Changelog: v0.17.0...v0.18.0