ethereum/go-ethereum v1.9.22

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Geth v1.9.22 is our usual maintenance release, fixing a few bugs and adding some minor features:

• Add gpo.maxprice CLI flag to override the upper limit of the automatic gas price suggester (#21531).
• Add BlockNumber method to ethclient to support retrieving the head block's number (#21500).
• Extend the call tracer to include additional contextual fields for SELFDESTRUCT (#21549, #21564).
• Unexpose port 8547 from docker images as GraphQL was merged with HTTP RPC (#21556).
• Support retroactively setting Petersburg if it coincides with Constantinople (#21473).
• Support gas estimation against arbitrary blocks, not just pending (#21545. #21601).
• Extend database inspection results with item counters too beside size (#21495).
• Dynamically move fast pivot point even during chain sync phase (#21529).
• Start implementing network protocol testers (#21598, #21603, #21604).
• Support flexible range proofs for snap sync (#21484. #21199, #21250).
• Extract rlpx into it's own package for easier protocol tests (#21464).
• Minor API polishes in the Java mobile framework (#21580).
• Add fuzzer suite for ABI encoding and decoding (#21217).

Bugfixes:

• Print warning if Whisper is present in the config.toml instead of rejecting (#21544).
• Handle miner suspends/resumption due to sync more gracefully (#21536, #21547).
• Fix a light client regression that crashed the node after a sync failure (#21537).

For a full rundown of the changes please consult the Geth 1.9.22 release milestone

As with all our previous releases, you can find the:

• Pre-built binaries for all platforms on our downloads page.
• Docker images published under ethereum/client-go.
• Ubuntu packages in our Launchpad PPA repository.
• OSX packages in our Homebrew Tap repository.