v1.18: reverts back in SocketAddr dedup in retransmit stage (backport…

… of anza-xyz#1106) (anza-xyz#1225)

reverts back in SocketAddr dedup in retransmit stage (anza-xyz#1106)

This was erronously deemed as unnecessary and removed in:
anza-xyz#864

The commit partially reverts anza-xyz#864 and adds back socket-addr dedup.

(cherry picked from commit fbe1dbc)

Co-authored-by: behzad nouri <behzadnouri@gmail.com>

Backport connection stream counter to v1.17 (anza-xyz#991)

* Backport ConnectionStreamCounter

* Addressed a feedback from Pankaj

v1.18: Disable cache warmer if RPC is not using it (backport of anza-…

…xyz#1063) (anza-xyz#1068)

Disable connection cache warmer for tpu if no rpc services using it.

(cherry picked from commit d87e23d)

# Conflicts:
#	core/src/tvu.rs

* Merge conflicts

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Co-authored-by: Lijun Wang <83639177+lijunwangs@users.noreply.github.com>

v1.17: chore: add CODEOWNERS (backport of anza-xyz#957) (anza-xyz#1020)

chore: add CODEOWNERS (anza-xyz#957)

(cherry picked from commit 748db10)

Co-authored-by: Yihau Chen <a122092487@gmail.com>

v1.18: Show staked vs nonstaked packets sent down/throttled (backport…

… of anza-xyz#600) (anza-xyz#614)

* Show staked vs nonstaked packets sent down/throttled (anza-xyz#600)

* Show staked vs nonstaked packets sent down

* add metrics on throttled staked vs non-staked

(cherry picked from commit b443cfb)

# Conflicts:
#	streamer/src/quic.rs

* fix merge conflicts

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Co-authored-by: Lijun Wang <83639177+lijunwangs@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: HaoranYi <haoran.yi@solana.com>

v1.17: Show staked vs nonstaked packets sent down/throttled (backport…

… of anza-xyz#600) (anza-xyz#613)

* Show staked vs nonstaked packets sent down/throttled (anza-xyz#600)

* Show staked vs nonstaked packets sent down

* add metrics on throttled staked vs non-staked

(cherry picked from commit b443cfb)

# Conflicts:
#	streamer/src/quic.rs

* fix merge conflicts

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Co-authored-by: Lijun Wang <83639177+lijunwangs@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: HaoranYi <haoran.yi@solana.com>

v1.18: Bump h2 (backport of anza-xyz#570) (anza-xyz#609)

Bump h2 (anza-xyz#570)

(cherry picked from commit f6e02e6)

Co-authored-by: Tyera <tyera@anza.xyz>

Adjust receive window to make them linear to the count of streams (#3… (

anza-xyz#595)

Adjust receive window to make them linear to the count of streams (solana-labs#33913)

Adjust receive window to make them linear to the count of streams to reduce fragmentations

v1.18: ci: add release pipeline (backport of anza-xyz#466) (anza-xyz#487

)

ci: add release pipeline (anza-xyz#466)

(cherry picked from commit 212cbdb)

Co-authored-by: Yihau Chen <a122092487@gmail.com>

v1.17: ci: fix some issues for the release pipeline (backport of anza…

…-xyz#493) (anza-xyz#498)

ci: fix some issues for the release pipeline (anza-xyz#493)

* add TRIGGERED_BUILDKITE_TAG to the pipeline

* publish a pre-release for the release id

(cherry picked from commit b1e1799)

Co-authored-by: Yihau Chen <a122092487@gmail.com>