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commit b36416d
Author: Alberto Benegiamo <alberto.benegiamo@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Dec 6 12:12:11 2023 -0700

    Drop Pending Stakers 1 - introduced ScheduledStaker txs (#2323)

    Co-authored-by: Stephen Buttolph <stephen@avalabs.org>

commit 7df1f3a
Author: Stephen Buttolph <stephen@avalabs.org>
Date:   Wed Dec 6 13:46:56 2023 -0500

    Restrict GOPROXY (#2434)

commit 21b7ab8
Author: Stephen Buttolph <stephen@avalabs.org>
Date:   Tue Dec 5 19:43:00 2023 -0500

    Fix platformvm.SetPreference (#2429)

commit ada692a
Author: Stephen Buttolph <stephen@avalabs.org>
Date:   Tue Dec 5 17:40:03 2023 -0500

    Update minimum golang version to v1.20.12 (#2427)

commit 004a23e
Author: Dhruba Basu <7675102+dhrubabasu@users.noreply.github.com>
Date:   Tue Dec 5 12:56:25 2023 -0500

    `vms/platformvm`: Add `decisionTxs` parameter to `NewBanffProposalBlock` (#2411)

    Co-authored-by: Dan Laine <daniel.laine@avalabs.org>

commit 439dc1e
Author: Alberto Benegiamo <alberto.benegiamo@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue Dec 5 10:46:13 2023 -0700

    ProposerVM Extend windows 0 - Cleanup (#2404)

    Co-authored-by: Stephen Buttolph <stephen@avalabs.org>

commit 477157d
Author: Dhruba Basu <7675102+dhrubabasu@users.noreply.github.com>
Date:   Tue Dec 5 11:10:56 2023 -0500

    `vms/platformvm`: Cleanup some block tests (#2422)

    Co-authored-by: Dan Laine <daniel.laine@avalabs.org>

commit b6700c9
Author: Stephen Buttolph <stephen@avalabs.org>
Date:   Mon Dec 4 22:24:34 2023 -0500

    Update slices dependency to use Compare (#2424)

    Co-authored-by: James Walker <jim.walker@smartcontract.com>

commit 5d9e482
Author: Dan Laine <daniel.laine@avalabs.org>
Date:   Mon Dec 4 19:27:29 2023 -0500

    allow user of `build_fuzz.sh` to specify a directory to fuzz in (#2414)

commit 2e32281
Author: Stephen Buttolph <stephen@avalabs.org>
Date:   Mon Dec 4 18:30:41 2023 -0500

    Fix duplicated bootstrapper engine termination (#2334)

    Signed-off-by: Joshua Kim <20001595+joshua-kim@users.noreply.github.com>
    Co-authored-by: Joshua Kim <20001595+joshua-kim@users.noreply.github.com>

commit b741c19
Author: Dhruba Basu <7675102+dhrubabasu@users.noreply.github.com>
Date:   Mon Dec 4 17:49:15 2023 -0500

    `vms/platformvm`: Move `VerifyUniqueInputs` from `verifier` to `backend` (#2410)

commit 6aa20fc
Author: Dhruba Basu <7675102+dhrubabasu@users.noreply.github.com>
Date:   Mon Dec 4 17:32:07 2023 -0500

    `vms/platformvm`: Initialize txs in `Transactions` field for `BanffProposalBlock` (#2419)

commit c11accd
Author: Alberto Benegiamo <alberto.benegiamo@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon Dec 4 09:16:01 2023 -0700

    Drop Pending Stakers 0 - De-duplicate staking tx verification (#2335)

commit 05ce366
Author: marun <maru.newby@avalabs.org>
Date:   Sat Dec 2 13:33:18 2023 -0800

    testing: Update to latest version of ginkgo (#2390)

commit 04af33e
Author: Dhruba Basu <7675102+dhrubabasu@users.noreply.github.com>
Date:   Sat Dec 2 16:33:07 2023 -0500

    `vms/platformvm`: Cleanup block builder tests (#2406)

    Co-authored-by: Stephen Buttolph <stephen@avalabs.org>

commit 7623ffd
Author: Stephen Buttolph <stephen@avalabs.org>
Date:   Fri Dec 1 19:39:15 2023 -0500

    Update versions for v1.10.17 (#2394)

commit be1a2ad
Author: aaronbuchwald <aaron.buchwald56@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri Dec 1 13:31:49 2023 -0500

    Add more descriptive formatted error (#2403)

    Co-authored-by: Stephen Buttolph <stephen@avalabs.org>

commit 9b85141
Author: Dhruba Basu <7675102+dhrubabasu@users.noreply.github.com>
Date:   Thu Nov 30 12:42:36 2023 -0800

    `vms/platformvm`: Move `GetRewardUTXOs`, `GetSubnets`, and `GetChains` to `State` interface (#2402)

commit de3b16c
Author: Joshua Kim <20001595+joshua-kim@users.noreply.github.com>
Date:   Thu Nov 30 12:49:53 2023 -0500

    Add `p2p.Network` component (#2283)

    Signed-off-by: Joshua Kim <20001595+joshua-kim@users.noreply.github.com>
    Co-authored-by: Stephen Buttolph <stephen@avalabs.org>

commit 0ab2046
Author: marun <maru.newby@avalabs.org>
Date:   Thu Nov 30 09:18:59 2023 -0800

    Rename `testnet` fixture to `tmpnet` (#2307)

commit 907b34c
Author: Stephen Buttolph <stephen@avalabs.org>
Date:   Wed Nov 29 21:32:43 2023 -0500

    Update bootstrap IPs (#2396)

commit 96d451d
Author: Stephen Buttolph <stephen@avalabs.org>
Date:   Wed Nov 29 18:15:47 2023 -0500

    Periodically PullGossip only from connected validators (#2399)

commit 0da5bcc
Author: Dan Laine <daniel.laine@avalabs.org>
Date:   Wed Nov 29 16:32:16 2023 -0500

    Remove method `CappedList` from `set.Set` (#2395)

Signed-off-by: Joshua Kim <20001595+joshua-kim@users.noreply.github.com>

Author: joshua-kim

.github/workflows/auto-generated-checker.yml

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
       - uses: actions/setup-go@v3
         with:
-          go-version: '~1.20.10'
+          go-version: '~1.20.12'
           check-latest: true
       - uses: bufbuild/buf-setup-action@v1.26.1
       - shell: bash
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
       - uses: actions/setup-go@v3
         with:
-          go-version: '~1.20.10'
+          go-version: '~1.20.12'
           check-latest: true
       - shell: bash
         run: scripts/mock.gen.sh
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
       - uses: actions/setup-go@v3
         with:
-          go-version: '~1.20.10'
+          go-version: '~1.20.12'
           check-latest: true
       - shell: bash
         run: go mod tidy

.github/workflows/build-linux-binaries.yml

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ jobs:
 
       - uses: actions/setup-go@v3
         with:
-          go-version: '~1.20.10'
+          go-version: '~1.20.12'
           check-latest: true
 
       - run: go version
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ jobs:
 
       - uses: actions/setup-go@v3
         with:
-          go-version: '~1.20.10'
+          go-version: '~1.20.12'
           check-latest: true
 
       - run: go version

.github/workflows/build-macos-release.yml

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
       - uses: actions/setup-go@v3
         with:
-          go-version: '~1.20.10'
+          go-version: '~1.20.12'
           check-latest: true
       - run: go version
 

.github/workflows/build-public-ami.yml

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
       - uses: actions/setup-go@v3
         with:
-          go-version: '~1.20.10'
+          go-version: '~1.20.12'
           check-latest: true
       - run: go version
 

.github/workflows/build-ubuntu-amd64-release.yml

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
       - uses: actions/setup-go@v3
         with:
-          go-version: '~1.20.10'
+          go-version: '~1.20.12'
           check-latest: true
       - run: go version
 
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
       - uses: actions/setup-go@v3
         with:
-          go-version: '~1.20.10'
+          go-version: '~1.20.12'
           check-latest: true
       - run: go version
 

.github/workflows/build-ubuntu-arm64-release.yml

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
       - uses: actions/setup-go@v3
         with:
-          go-version: '~1.20.10'
+          go-version: '~1.20.12'
           check-latest: true
       - run: go version
 
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
       - uses: actions/setup-go@v3
         with:
-          go-version: '~1.20.10'
+          go-version: '~1.20.12'
           check-latest: true
       - run: go version
 

.github/workflows/build-win-release.yml

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ jobs:
 
       - uses: actions/setup-go@v3
         with:
-          go-version: '~1.20.10'
+          go-version: '~1.20.12'
           check-latest: true
 
       - run: go version

.github/workflows/fuzz.yml

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Set up Go
         uses: actions/setup-go@v3
         with:
-          go-version: '~1.20.10'
+          go-version: '~1.20.12'
           check-latest: true
       - name: Run fuzz tests
         shell: bash

.github/workflows/static-analysis.yml

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Set up Go
         uses: actions/setup-go@v3
         with:
-          go-version: '~1.20.10'
+          go-version: '~1.20.12'
           check-latest: true
       - name: Run static analysis tests
         shell: bash

.github/workflows/test.e2e.persistent.yml renamed to .github/workflows/test.e2e.existing.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-name: Test e2e with persistent network
+name: Test e2e with existing network
 
 on:
   push:
@@ -15,25 +15,25 @@ permissions:
   contents: read
 
 jobs:
-  test_e2e_persistent:
+  test_e2e_existing:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - name: Git checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v3
       - name: Set up Go
         uses: actions/setup-go@v3
         with:
-          go-version: '~1.20.10'
+          go-version: '~1.20.12'
           check-latest: true
       - name: Build the avalanchego binary
         shell: bash
         run: ./scripts/build.sh -r
-      - name: Run e2e tests with persistent network
+      - name: Run e2e tests with existing network
         shell: bash
-        run: E2E_SERIAL=1 ./scripts/tests.e2e.persistent.sh
-      - name: Upload testnet network dir
+        run: E2E_SERIAL=1 ./scripts/tests.e2e.existing.sh
+      - name: Upload tmpnet network dir
         uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
         if: always()
         with:
-          name: testnet-data
-          path: ~/.testnetctl/networks/1000
+          name: tmpnet-data
+          path: ~/.tmpnet/networks/1000