Zilliqa/zq1 release/v8.4.0rc3

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General

• Update readme (#3101)
• Remove the data_migrate program and special associated functions (#3123)
• Remove dead code (#3122)
• Force to lookup mode in isolated server (#3113)
• Skip check_guard.sh on OS X, as it seems to be failing (#3121)
• Add new websocket server and subscribe/unsubscribe (#3129)
• Persistence documentation (#3152)
• Dispatch all RPC API fns via websocket connections (#3176)
• API filters expiration + eliminating busyloop in messaging (#3186)
• Fix Zil contract address calculation (#3187)
• Add variable launch evm daemon to constants.xml (#3185)
• Mention SCILLA_LIB in isolated server documentation (#3198)
• Less JSON, more Protobufs! (#3196)
• Break cyclic dependency with Logger (#3214)
• Upgrade to C++20 (#3211)
• Added diagnostic logging to AccountStore (#3231)
• Create a vcpkg port for CryptoUtils and remove the submodule (#3241)
• Create a json log for OpenSearch (#3242)
• Remove CUDA (#3243)
• Update scilla image (#3253)

EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine)

• Fix payable constructor does not transfer the paid ethers to the contract address (#3120)
• Add Fireblocks endpoint and test for block receipts (#3124)
• Adding eth_estimateGas (#3133)
• Revert erc20 contract changes (#3136)
• Propagate multiple blockchain related values to evm-ds directly from blockchain (#3036)
• Add Fireblocks tracing v1 (#3144)
• Remove sleep on startup of evm-ds and remove the unixdomain socket (#3145)
• Correct constant for sha3Uncles (#3142)
• Gas estimation fixes (#3146)
• Fix contract size check (#3150)
• Fixing temporarily stoul usage (#3151)
• Adding strToInt helpers (#3153)
• Add blake2 precompile (#3154)
• Special-case revert handling to provide more compatible error handling (#3183)
• Fix simple send of value to an EVM contract (#3189)
• Remove the incorrect handling of eth_coinbase (#3158)
• Don't allow lookup receipt non-EVM (#3199)
• Deduplicate the code around TX creation for eth case (#3200)
• Disable call l64 after gas, disabling the EIP150 (#3228)
• Point to the new version of jsonrpc Rust libs with a more correct fix (#3225)
• Log JSON from evm-ds (#3184)
• Fix gas estimation (#3216)
• Attach proper bloom filter in block response (#3155)

Testing

• Change raw matchers to hardhat chai matchers (#3107)
• Add tags to tests (#3108)
• Move bcinfo contract from evm_ds_test to integration tests (#3080)
• Add FeedDevnet.js script to tests (#3112)
• Fix ParentChild tests (#3117)
• Relax python dependencies in integration test (#3114)
• Fix one failing test of Transfer scenario (#3127)
• Make integration tests work against the evmdev (#3130)
• Add openzeppelin ownable contract tests (#3132)
• Add openzeppelin ERC20 scenario to integration tests (#3134)
• Fix ERC20 test (#3137)
• Add openzeppelin role based contract tests (#3138)
• EVM client tests (#3139)
• Add eth_accounts tests (#3156)
• Add eth_getStorageAt tests (#3159)
• Add failing test of transferring ethers to contract address (#3160)
• Add delegatecall tests (#3203)
• Adding subscription tests (#3193)
• Add --log-jsonrpc option for ethers.js (#3208)
• Add unit tests to conversions where the byte order can be confusing (#3236)
• Fixing subscription tests (#3235)

Full Changelog: v8.3.0...release/v8.4.0rc3