* chore: bump Nim to 2.2.4
* fix: resolve symbol ambiguity and drop auto type
* fix: use reference to task instead of pointer or the compiler will deallocate `task` before the encoding/decoding is done
* fix: convention that maxCollateralPerByte equals totalRemainingCollateral when freeSize is 0 to avoid DivByZeroDefect
* fix: bump compiler version in CI pipeline as well
* ci: add compatible contracts image for nim-codex docker image
* ci: with submodules
* ci: with submodules on correct place
* ci: remove double dash
* ci: avoiding artifact conflicts
* ci: add labels to arch images
* ci: correct way to add label to arch images
* ci: correct contract label
* ci: avoid building contracts image and use contracts commit hash
* refactor: better way to get the hash
* ci: use ubuntu-latest for coverage (#1141)
* ci: pass --keep-going to lcov and genhtml (#1141)
* ci: use ubuntu-22.04 for release workflow (#1141)
* ci: install gcc-14 on linux (#1141)
* chore: bump nim-leveldbstatic to 0.2.1
* Move to version 2.0.6
* Update nim-confutils submodule to latest version
* Update dependencies
* Update Nim version to 2.0.12
* Add gcsafe pragma
* Add missing import
* Update specific conf for Nim 2.x
* Fix method signatures
* Revert erasure coding attempt to fix bug
* More gcsafe pragma
* Duplicate code from libp2p because it is not exported anymore
* Fix camelcase function names
* Use alreadySeen because need is not a bool anymore
* newLPStreamReadError does not exist anymore so use another error
* Replace ValidIpAddress by IpAddress
* Add gcsafe pragma
* Restore maintenance parameter deleted by mistake when removing esasure coding fix attempt code
* Update method signatures
* Copy LPStreamReadError code from libp2p which was removed
* Fix camel case
* Fix enums in tests
* Fix camel case
* Extract node components to a variable to make Nim 2 happy
* Update the tests using ValidIpAddress to IpAddress
* Fix cast for value which is already an option
* Set nim version to 2.0.x for CI
* Set nim version to 2.0.x for CI
* Move to miniupnp version 2.2.4 to avoid symlink error
* Set core.symlinks to false for Windows for miniupnp >= 2.2.5 support
* Update to Nim 2.0.14
* Update CI nim versions to 2.0.14
* Try with GCC 14
* Replace apt-fast by apt-get
* Update ubuntu runner to latest
* Use Ubuntu 20.04 for coverage
* Disable CI cache for coverage
* Add coverage property description
* Remove commented test
* Check the node value of seen instead of using alreadySeen
* Fix the merge. The taskpool work was reverted.
* Update nim-ethers submodule
* Remove deprecated ValidIpAddress. Fix missing case and imports.
* Fix a weird issue where nim-confutils cannot find NatAny
* Fix tests and remove useless static keyword
* adds a new overload of queryPastEvents allowing to query past events based on timestamp in the past
* adds state restoration to validator
* refactors a bit to get the tests back to work
* replaces deprecated generic methods from Market with methods for specific event types
* Refactors binary search
* adds market tests for querying past SlotFilled events and binary search
* Takes into account that <<earliest>> block available is not necessarily the genesis block
* Adds more logging and makes testing earliest block boundary more reliable
* adds validation tests for historical state restoration
* adds mockprovider to simplify and improve testing of the edge conditions
* adds slot reservation to the new tests after rebasing
* adds validation groups and group index in logs of validator
* adds integration test with two validators
* adds comment on how to enable logging in integration test executable itself
* testIntegration: makes list is running nodes injected and available in the body of the test
* validation: adds integration test for historical state
* adds more logging to validator
* integration test: validator only looks 30 days back for historical state
* adds logging of the slotState when removing slots during validation
* review and refactor validator integration tests
* adds validation to the set of integration tests
* Fixes mistyped name of the mock provider module in testMarket
* Fixes a typo in the name of the validation suite in integration tests
* Makes validation unit test a bit easier to follow
* better use of logScopes to reduce duplication
* improves timing and clarifies the test conditions
* uses http as default RPC provider for nodes running in integration tests as a workaround for dropped subscriptions
* simplifies the validation integration tests by waiting for failed request instead of tracking slots
* adds config option allowing selectively to set different provider url
* Brings back the default settings for RPC provider in integration tests
* use http RPC provider for clients in validation integration tests
* fine-tune the tests
* Makes validator integration test more robust - adds extra tracking
* brings tracking of marketplace event back to validator integration test
* refactors integration tests
* deletes tmp file
* adds <<return>> after forcing integration test to fail preliminarily
* re-enables all integration tests and matrix
* stops debug output in CI
* allows to choose a different RPC provider for a given integration test suite
* fixes signature of <<getBlock>> method in mockProvider
* adds missing import which seem to be braking integration tests on windows
* makes sure that clients, SPs, and validators use the same provider url
* makes validator integration tests using http at 127.0.0.1:8545
* testvalidator: stop resubscribing as we are now using http polling as rpc provider
* applying review comments
* groups queryPastStorage overrides together (review comment)
* groups the historical validation tests into a sub suite
* removes the temporary extensions in marketplacesuite and multinodesuite allowing to specify provider url
* simplifies validation integration tests
* Removes debug logs when waiting for request to fail
* Renaming waitForRequestFailed => waitForRequestToFail
* renames blockNumberForBlocksAgo to pastBlockTag and makes it private
* removes redundant debugging logs
* refines logging in validation
* removes dev logging from mockmarket
* improves exception handling in provider helper procs and prepares for extraction to a separate module
* Uses chronos instead of std/times for Duration
* extracts provider and binary search helpers to a separate module
* removes redundant log entry params from validator
* unifies the notation to consistently use method call syntax
* reuses ProviderError from nim-ethers in the provider extension
* clarifies the comment in multinodesuite
* uses == operator to check the predefined tags and raises exception when `BlockTag.pending` is requested.
* when waiting for request to fail, we break on any request state that is not Started
* removes tests that were moved to testProvider from testMarket
* extracts tests that use MockProvider to a separate async suite
* improves performance of the historical state restoration
* removing redundant log messages in validator (groupIndex and groups)
* adds testProvider to testContracts group
* removes unused import in testMarket
