Zilliqa/zq2 v0.19.0-alpha

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Hardfork

This release contains a hard fork for the following chains:

• Mainnet: 11998800 (estimated: 2025-10-22T19.00.00Z)
• Testnet: 14997600 (estimated: 2025-09-19T12.00.00Z)

Please ensure your node is updated before the specified block height is reached.

What's Changed

• [#3080] Fork: Implement jailing of faulty proposers
• [#3128] Introduce new checkpoint file format
• [#3126] Migrate state_trie to RocksDB
• [#3186] Improve state-migration with state-sync
• [#3167] Remove Mutex from State::account
• [#3182] Improve performance of some API handlers

Full Changelog: v0.18.1...v0.19.0-alpha