* Add quic-client module to send transactions via quic, abstracted behind the TpuConnection trait (along with a legacy UDP implementation of TpuConnection) and change thin-client to use TpuConnection
* Deprecate commitment variants
* Add new CommitmentConfig builders
* Add helpers to avoid allowing deprecated variants
* Remove deprecated transaction-status code
* Include new commitment variants in runtime commitment; allow deprecated as long as old variants persist
* Remove deprecated banks code
* Remove deprecated variants in core; allow deprecated in rpc/rpc-subscriptions for now
* Heavier hand with rpc/rpc-subscription commitment
* Remove deprecated variants from local-cluster
* Remove deprecated variants from various tools
* Remove deprecated variants from validator
* Update docs
* Remove deprecated client code
* Add new variants to cli; remove deprecated variants as possible
* Don't send new commitment variants to old clusters
* Retain deprecated method in test_validator_saves_tower
* Fix clippy matches! suggestion for BPF solana-sdk legacy compile test
* Refactor node version check to handle commitment variants and transaction encoding
* Hide deprecated variants from cli help
* Add cli App comments
* Make Message::new_with_payer the default constructor
* Remove Transaction::new_[un]signed_instructions
These guess the fee-payer instead of stating it explicitly
* SDK: Split new `FeeRateGovernor` out of `FeeCalculator`
Leaving `FeeCalculator` to *only* calculate transaction fees
* Replace `FeeCalculator` with `FeeRateGovernor` as appropriate
* Expose recent `FeeRateGovernor` to clients
* Move `burn()` back into `FeeCalculator`
Appease BPF tests
* Revert "Move `burn()` back into `FeeCalculator`"
This reverts commit f3035624307196722b62ff8b74c12cfcc13b1941.
* Adjust BPF `Fee` sysvar test to reflect removal of `burn()` from `FeeCalculator`
* Make `FeeRateGovernor`'s `lamports_per_signature` private
* rebase artifacts
* fmt
* Drop 'Recent'
* Drop _with_commitment variant
* Use a more portable integer for `target_signatures_per_slot`
* Add docs for `getReeRateCalculator` JSON RPC method
* Don't return `lamports_per_signature` in `getFeeRateGovernor` JSONRPC reply
* Name anonymous parameters for clarity
* Add CommitmentConfig to select bank for rpc
* Add commitment information to jsonrpc docs
* Update send_and_confirm retries as per commitment defaults
* Pass CommitmentConfig into client requests; also various 'use' cleanup
* Use _with_commitment methods to speed local_cluster tests
* Pass CommitmentConfig into Archiver in order to enable quick confirmations in local_cluster tests
* Restore solana ping speed
* Increase wallet-sanity timeout to account for longer confirmation time
* credit_only_credits_forwarding
* whack transfer_now()
* fixup
* bench should retry the airdrop TX
* fixup
* try to make bench-exchange a bit more robust, informative
* Release builds for test
* Remove setting thread count in local cluster
* Increase timeout
* Move local cluster to separate job
* Extract out local cluster test from bench-tps
* Make local cluster inaccessible from outside crate
* Update test-stable.sh to exclude local_cluster in stable, include it in local-cluster CI job
* Move bench-exchange to local cluster
* Remove local cluster from coverage
