solana-labs/solana v1.8.1

Testnet / Mainnet-beta testing - v1.8.1

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This is a Testnet release and it is in limited testing for Mainnet Beta release.

Changes

• Fixes AVX/AVX2 detection
• Validator no longer shells out to tar for snapshot archive
• Initial support for CPI return data (feature gated)
• SPL Token Account owner is now included in {pre,post}TokenBalance field of RPC transaction response metadata
• Adds ed25519 signature verification program (feature gated)
• Adds ability to request heap size increases (feature gated)
• RPC send transaction service retries are now service-side tunable
• Various additions and improvements to docs and metrics