STORAGE-BREAKING RC -- ONLY COMPATIBLE WITH ARABICA-9

This is a cherry-picked RC containing storage-breaking fixes and improvements that will help full and bridge nodes sync more reliably. Node runners wishing to upgrade should clear their datastores using the instructions here.

Note that this release does not contain all commits from main and only contains necessary storage fixes and improvements as well as other necessary bug fixes and dependency bumps to help stabilise full and bridge nodes.