Features:

More useful metrics around message handling have been added.

Fixes:

Contention in the peer actor/networking code has been reduced.
A bug that made chain info unavailable to the client at startup has been fixed.
Improved shard cache for Trie nodes to put more nodes in memory. Requires 3 GB more RAM.

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RELEASE_VERSION: 1.29.0-rc.2
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