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22.10.0-RC2

Flexible Privacy Groups (early access) support to Tessera's EC encryptor (contracts modified) #4282
- Before this change, the bytes32 type was used for the enclave public keys, just supporting encryptors with public keys of that length (like the default NaCl)
- For the EC encryptor, the encoded public key length is 91
--tx-pool-hashes-max-size option removed (deprecated in 22.1.3)
--Xmerge-support option remove (deprecated in 22.4.2) #4518
Breaking API changes in the OperationTracer interface to enable performance work.
- The traceExecution method has been replaced with tracePreExecution and tracePostExecution methods, called just before and just after operation execution.
- See DebugOperationTracer and StandardJsonTracer for migration examples.

Reduce the number of runtime exceptions (SecurityModuleException) and unnecessary executions during ECIES handshake, by trying to decrypt EIP-8 formatted messages first #4508.
Improved RLP processing of zero-length string as 0x80 #4283 #4388
Increased level of detail in JSON-RPC parameter error log messages #4510
New unstable configuration options to set the maximum time, in milliseconds, a PoS block creation jobs is allowed to run #4519
Tune EthScheduler thread pools to avoid recreating too many threads #4529
RocksDB snapshot based worldstate and plugin-api addition of Snapshot interfaces #4409
Continuously try to build better block proposals until timeout or GetPayload is called #4516
Upgrade RocksDB database version from 6.29.5 to 7.6.0 #4517
Avoid connecting to self when using static-nodes #4521
EVM performance has increased 20%-100% depending on the particulars of the contract. #4540

Corrects emission of blockadded events when rewinding during a re-org. Fix for #4495
Always return a transaction type for pending transactions #4364
Avoid a cyclic reference while printing EngineExchangeTransitionConfigurationParameter #4357
Corrects treating a block as bad on internal error #4512
In GraphQL update scalar parsing to be variable friendly #4522
Initiate connection to maintained peers soon after startup. #4469
Update apache-commons-text to 1.10.0 to address CVE-2022-42889 #4542