This milestone aims to handle all the work done to tackle L1 system backlog technical debt. It usually fixes critical/high priority, usually incidents, issues (🔴) but can also deal with quality of life improvements (🟢).

MRs usually result from spontaneous bug discovery or active seek of opened issues and TODO/FIXME.

This milestone takes over the previous Layer 1 - Improvements and reduce backlogs one

• Fix cemented snapshot export 🔴
  • !19775 (merged)
  • !19931 (merged) -- v23.3 backport
• Client: allow gen vanity keys with every sig_algo 🟢
  • !19299 (merged)
• Devtools/yes-wallet: fold that actually folds 🟢
  • Speedup rich account computation
    • !18868 (merged)
• Store/snapshots: restore v8 backward compatibility 🔴
  • Supports import of v8 snapshot that are using legacy encodings for the block_data
  • !18791 (merged)
  • !18792 (merged) -- v23~rc2 backport
• Fix snapshot import and reconstruction edge cases 🔴
  • Avoids wrong max_operations_ttl computation edge case when importing snapshot or reconstructing storage
  • !18743 (merged)
  • !18779 (merged) -- v23~rc2 backport
• Remove obsolete storage upgrade 🔴
  • Avoids unexpected storage upgrade
  • !18622 (merged)
  • !18621 (merged)
• Export snapshot with more metadata 🔴
  • Allows baker to bake on a freshly imported snapshot
  • !18387 (merged)
• Lib_base/watchdog: remove DAL handshake timeout 🟢
  • !17590 (merged)
• Bin_client: use -- prefix for command line arguments 🟢
  • !17694 (merged)
• Store QOL 🟢
  • !15555 (merged)
  • !16061 (merged)
• Store: remove may_shrink_cycles while cementing cycles 🔴
  • Removes workaround introduced to avoid exceeding zip32 limits
  • !15077 (merged)
• Store: Storage_maintenance always set as auto 🔴
  • !16744 (merged)
  • !16815 (merged) -- v21 backport