Features:

max_gas_burnt has been increased to 300 (this is a protocol change) #6221
More metrics related to epoch, sync state, node version added (#6004), chunk fullness (#6268) and missing chunks (#6275) have been added
Progress bar is now displayed when downloading config.json and genesis.json #6018
Status line printed in logs by neard is now more descriptive #6260
Rosetta RPC now populates related_transactions field #5721
Rosetta RPC support is now compiled in by default. The feature still needs to be explicitly turned on and is experimental #6280
view_state is now a command of neard; state-viewer is no longer a separate binary #5333

Fixes:

RUST_LOG environment variable is now respected more #6036 and #6055
NetworkConfig::verify will now fail if configuration is invalid rather than printing error and continuing #5705
Fixed a minor bug which resulted in DB Not Found errors when requesting chunks #6155
Updated to wasmer-near 2.2.0 which fixes a potential crash and improves cost estimator working #6182
neard init will no longer override node or validator private keys #6037
Rosetta /network/status end point correctly works on non-archival nodes #6238

unsafe_reset_all and unsafe_reset_data commands are now deprecated. Use rm explicitly instead #6054

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