Merge/foundation release/1.10.21

[meowsbits]

Merges our 1.10.20 merge branch with ethereum/go-ethereum's currently-latest release/1.10 branch, which has its head at

commit 671094279e8d27f4b4c3c94bf8b636c26b473976 (tag: v1.10.21, foundation/release/1.10)
Author: Felix Lange <[email protected]>
Date:   Wed Jul 27 13:53:06 2022 +0200

    params: go-ethereum v1.10.21 stable

diff --git a/params/version.go b/params/version.go
index 188b31d58b..c1dd05955c 100644
--- a/params/version.go
+++ b/params/version.go
@@ -21,10 +21,10 @@ import (
 )
 
 const (
-       VersionMajor = 1          // Major version component of the current release
-       VersionMinor = 10         // Minor version component of the current release
-       VersionPatch = 21         // Patch version component of the current release
-       VersionMeta  = "unstable" // Version metadata to append to the version string
+       VersionMajor = 1        // Major version component of the current release
+       VersionMinor = 10       // Minor version component of the current release
+       VersionPatch = 21       // Patch version component of the current release
+       VersionMeta  = "stable" // Version metadata to append to the version string
 )
 
 // Version holds the textual version string.

On top of #489.

[ziogaschr]

Started reviewing this PR. All looks good so far.

On the other hand, this came under my attention https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/issues/25432. I will try to run similar tests to see what happens.