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Non-mandatory upgrade

New Features

Core

Change

1. Improve P2P network stability, avoid potential isolation of internal network nodes (#5924,#5944,#5956,#5984)

2. Optimize transaction expiration checks, and stop broadcasting transactions to be expired in advance (#5999)

3. Set blockBothHave when processing broadcasted blocks to understand peer status better (#5925)

4. Add isSyncIdle method to determine status of syncing peers to avoid transaction/block broadcasts affecting block synchronization (#5921)

5. Optimize sortPeers by catching and ignoring avgLatency concurrent access issue (#5923)

6. Enhance checks for fetch inventory messages, requested block number cannot exceed maximum block number carried in chain inventory message (#5922)

7. Add TCP-out traffic to Prometheus statistics and UDP-in traffic to /monitor/getstatsinfo statistics (#5942)

8. Resolve the statistical inaccuracy issue caused by concurrency errors in HTTP metrics(#5920)

9. Bump com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java from 3.21.12 to 3.25.5(#6025)

10. Improve stability of Gradle test task

    1. Introduce test-retry plugin to help mitigate issues caused by flaky tests (#5916)
    2. Reduces noise by ignoring non-essential unstable tests for MerkleTreeTest (#5927)

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