Merge rc170 into rc17next1 2024.03.21

[sstanculeanu]

Reasoning behind the pull request

Proposed changes

Testing procedure

Pre-requisites

Based on the Contributing Guidelines the PR author and the reviewers must check the following requirements are met:

• was the PR targeted to the correct branch?
• if this is a larger feature that probably needs more than one PR, is there a feat branch created?
• if this is a feat branch merging, do all satellite projects have a proper tag inside go.mod?

[codecov]

Codecov Report

Attention: Patch coverage is 84.81435% with 364 lines in your changes are missing coverage. Please review.

Project coverage is 78.80%. Comparing base (6d6332c) to head (6d93fee).
Report is 1 commits behind head on rc/v1.7.next1.

Files	Patch %	Lines
epochStart/metachain/legacySystemSCs.go	71.99%	118 Missing and 108 partials ⚠️
factory/api/apiResolverFactory.go	81.25%	19 Missing and 2 partials ⚠️
epochStart/metachain/auctionListDisplayer.go	87.40%	9 Missing and 7 partials ⚠️
factory/processing/blockProcessorCreator.go	83.56%	6 Missing and 6 partials ⚠️
epochStart/metachain/systemSCs.go	85.13%	8 Missing and 3 partials ⚠️
epochStart/bootstrap/baseStorageHandler.go	37.50%	5 Missing and 5 partials ⚠️
epochStart/metachain/auctionListSelector.go	97.13%	5 Missing and 2 partials ⚠️
epochStart/metachain/common.go	0.00%	7 Missing ⚠️
epochStart/metachain/tableDisplayer.go	36.36%	7 Missing ⚠️
genesis/process/genesisBlockCreator.go	66.66%	4 Missing and 3 partials ⚠️
... and 13 more

Additional details and impacted files

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##           rc/v1.7.next1    #6058      +/-   ##
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- Coverage          79.93%   78.80%   -1.13%     
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  Files                731      752      +21     
  Lines              96250    98013    +1763     
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+ Hits               76934    77238     +304     
- Misses             13927    15553    +1626     
+ Partials            5389     5222     -167     

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[gabi-vuls]

Normal allin test: v1.6.15-dev-config-eb2e06c06d -> merge_rc170_into_rc17next1-6d93fee1ff

--- Specific errors ---

block hash does not match 1711
wrong nonce in block 665
miniblocks does not match 0
num miniblocks does not match 0
miniblock hash does not match 0
block bodies does not match 1
receipts hash missmatch 0

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--- Statistics ---

Nr. of all ERRORS: 0
Nr. of all WARNS: 329
Nr. of new ERRORS: 0
Nr. of new WARNS: 5
Nr. of PANICS: 0

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