ava-labs/avalanchego Fortuna.4 - Cubist Signer Integration (v1.13.4)

AvalancheGo v1.13.4 is an optional but recommended maintenance release. It is backwards compatible to v1.13.0.

Important for Plugin Users: The plugin version has been updated to 43. All custom plugins must be updated to this version to be compatible.

Key Highlights:

External Signer Support: A new staking-rpc-signer-endpoint configuration flag has been added. This enables integration with external, RPC-based services like Cubist for handling BLS signing operations, providing enhanced security and flexibility for validators.

C-Chain Update: The C-Chain's virtual machine, Coreth, has been upgraded to version v0.15.3-rc.5. This update brings the latest improvements and ensures consistent behavior with Subnet-EVM.

Other Notable Changes:

Protocol Foundations: This release implements Simplex QuorumCertificate and BLS aggregator logic, which are foundational components for future protocol enhancements.

Testing Framework Overhaul: The legacy load testing framework (`load`) has been fully removed and replaced by the more advanced `load2` framework (which is now simply named `load`), improving the ability to stress-test the network with various transaction types.

This version is backwards compatible to [v1.13.0](https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/releases/tag/v1.13.0). It is optional, but encouraged.

The plugin version is updated to `43` all plugins must update to be compatible.

## Configs

- Added `staking-rpc-signer-endpoint` flag.

## What's Changed

- Bump golang.org/x/oauth2 from 0.21.0 to 0.27.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/pull/4100
- [tmpnet] Enable externally accessible URIs for kube-hosted nodes by @maru-ava in https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/pull/4016
- [antithesis] Enable reuse of banff e2e test for antithesis testing by @marun in https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/pull/3554
- feat(load2): add contract tests by @RodrigoVillar in https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/pull/4071
- Add test to re-execute specified range of mainnet C-Chain blocks by @aaronbuchwald in https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/pull/4019
- [tmpnet] Enable installation of chaos mesh to local kind cluster by @maru-ava in https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/pull/3674
- Update release notes and bump version to `v1.13.4` by @StephenButtolph in https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/pull/4113
- Update reexecute c-chain range cronjob to run daily by @aaronbuchwald in https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/pull/4115
- Remove Stale References of the toEngine Channel by @samliok in https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/pull/4101
- Add step to push benchmark results to gh-pages by @aaronbuchwald in https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/pull/4103
- ci: remove load 1.0 by @RodrigoVillar in https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/pull/4106
- Simplex QuorumCertificate and BLS aggregator by @samliok in https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/pull/4091
- Update codeowners of reexecution changes by @aaronbuchwald in https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/pull/4116
- refactor: use maps.Copy for cleaner map handling by @jishudashu in https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/pull/4119
- refactor: remove load 1.0  by @RodrigoVillar in https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/pull/4112
- Enable Cubist Signer integration by @geoff-vball in https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/pull/3965
- Split action benchmark comparison and push to gh-pages by @aaronbuchwald in https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/pull/4130
- Remove external-data-json-path from benchmark push step by @aaronbuchwald in https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/pull/4134
- With golangci-lint v2.2.2 using http.NewRequest is discouraged by @StephenButtolph in https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/pull/4136
- Add runner input to run c-chain reexecution benchmark on arbitrary target by @aaronbuchwald in https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/pull/4121
- Remove flaky dial throttler tests by @aaronbuchwald in https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/pull/4139
- Remove gitignore line that ignores the `database/dbtest` package by @StephenButtolph in https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/pull/4142
- chore: Update header year to 2025 by @JonathanOppenheimer in https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/pull/4140
- feat(load): add trie stress test by @RodrigoVillar in https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/pull/4137
- Parameterize values in transfer tests by @RodrigoVillar in https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/pull/4144
- uplift: Add combined metrics package from evm repositories by @JonathanOppenheimer in https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/pull/4135
- docs: load by @RodrigoVillar in https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/pull/4132
- chore: fix minor typo in comment by @lechpzn in https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/pull/4150
- fix metrics tests by @joshua-kim in https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/pull/4146
- Update coreth to v0.15.3-rc.5 by @StephenButtolph in https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/pull/4153

## New Contributors

- @jishudashu made their first contribution in https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/pull/4119
- @lechpzn made their first contribution in https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/pull/4150

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/compare/v1.13.3...v1.13.4

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