* pass `Akka.Cluster.Cluster` into `IDowningProvider` directly

close #5962

* enhanced `StartupWithOneThreadSpec` to include SBR

* C#-ified HOCON

* added #5962 repro

* fixed `AutoDown`

* fixed other `IDowningProvider` instances

* updated Akka.Cluster API approvals

…located` messages (#5967)

close #5604

…emote.EnpointReader (#5971)

* Add spec to make sure that Cluster.Sharding can survive any transient exceptions thrown from entity constructor and PreStart method

* Remove timing sensitive code to avoid raciness

* Use AwaitCondition instead

…6006)

…t to false (#6043)

* SSL Configuration Fails even EnbleSsl property is set to false (#6038)

* Respect EnableSsl configuration propert

* Update DotNettySslSupportSpec.cs

* Update DotNettySslSupportSpec.cs

* Update DotNettyTransportSettings.cs

* Moved enableSsl variable initialization outside return statement

Co-authored-by: Aliaksei Minchankou <Aliaksei.Minchankou@nreca.coop>
Co-authored-by: Aaron Stannard <aaron@petabridge.com>

* SSL

* (Parameter 'certificatePath')

* TestKit

* Fixed up assertion to no longer be whitespace sensitive

* [Bug] using FluentAssertions;

Co-authored-by: aminchenkov <alexei.minchenkov@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Aliaksei Minchankou <Aliaksei.Minchankou@nreca.coop>
Co-authored-by: Aaron Stannard <aaron@petabridge.com>

* Cherry-picked from af513b0

* Fix missing DefaultConfig

* Fix missing StreamTestDefaultMailbox.DefaultConfig

Co-authored-by: Ebere Abanonu <eaba@users.noreply.github.com>

Co-authored-by: Aaron Stannard <aaron@petabridge.com>

* Update RELEASE_NOTES.md for 1.4.40 release

* Add aminchenkov to the contributor list table

* Cherry-picked from 0c92aac (#6048)

Co-authored-by: Aaron Stannard <aaron@petabridge.com>

* Update RELEASE_NOTES.md for 1.4.40 release

* Add aminchenkov to the contributor list table

* Update RELEASE_NOTES.md

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* Fix faulty AddLogger in LoggingBus

* Ignore logger async start setting, not relevant anymore

* Simplify unit test

* Send Stop instead of PoisonPill

* Make loggers load asynchronously by default

* Change logging back to exceptions

* Remove _startupState, use closure instead

Co-authored-by: Aaron Stannard <aaron@petabridge.com>

Modified the default `SupervisorStrategy` to record the full `Exception` when a `Warning` is issued when a `Directive.Resume` is returned by the `Decider` when handling child actor failures. The only material impact of this is improved visibility into the stack trace and error details.

…oseDebugLogging switch (#6084)

* Cherry-picked from e3511dc

* Fix API verify list

Co-authored-by: Vagif Abilov <vagif.abilov@nrk.no>

* added benchmark to measure `AkkaPduCodec` overhead

* completed `AkkaPduCodec` benchmarks

* broke down read-side deserialization

* added second ActorSystem

* added full cache debug logs

(cherry picked from commit eee47ac)

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