v1.17: Remove unnecessary unwrap from `simulate_transaction_unchecked…

…()` (backport of solana-labs#35375) (solana-labs#65)

Remove unnecessary unwrap from `simulate_transaction_unchecked()` (solana-labs#35375)

Remove unnecessary unwrap from simulate_transaction_unchecked()

(cherry picked from commit cb260f1)

Co-authored-by: mergify[bot] <37929162+mergify[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>

v1.18: Remove unnecessary unwrap from `simulate_transaction_unchecked…

…()` (backport of solana-labs#35375) (solana-labs#35397)

Remove unnecessary unwrap from `simulate_transaction_unchecked()` (solana-labs#35375)

Remove unnecessary unwrap from simulate_transaction_unchecked()

(cherry picked from commit cb260f1)

Co-authored-by: Pankaj Garg <pankaj@solana.com>

v1.17: Adds more info to panic message in AccountsHashVerifier (backp…

…ort of solana-labs#35353) (solana-labs#35358)

Adds more info to panic message in AccountsHashVerifier (solana-labs#35353)

(cherry picked from commit 6aaaf85)

Co-authored-by: Brooks <brooks@solana.com>

v1.18: chains Merkle shreds in broadcast duplicates (backport of sola…

…na-labs#35058) (solana-labs#35292)

chains Merkle shreds in broadcast duplicates (solana-labs#35058)

The commit migrates
    turbine/src/broadcast_stage/broadcast_duplicates_run.rs
to use chained Merkle shreds variant.

(cherry picked from commit 1b9dfd4)

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

v1.17: validator: include waited_for_supermajority in startup metric …

…(backport of solana-labs#35137) (solana-labs#35276)

* validator: include waited_for_supermajority in startup metric (solana-labs#35137)

(cherry picked from commit b0134ab)

# Conflicts:
#	core/src/validator.rs

* fix conflicts

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Co-authored-by: Ashwin Sekar <ashwin@solana.com>

Revert "Add slot based feature"

0c403697ca9cb0a18d93acf25a09c9c344c9c03b

Add limit to looping in banking-stage

v1.18: [docs] translation support (backport of solana-labs#35166) (so…

…lana-labs#35169)

[docs] translation support (solana-labs#35166)

* chore: update crowdin and add serve command

* feat: upload all desired files to crowdin

* fix: absolute urls for pdfs

* fix: do not import components with relative paths

* feat: updated readme

* fix: whitespace

(cherry picked from commit 8f7fda8)

Co-authored-by: Nick Frostbutter <75431177+nickfrosty@users.noreply.github.com>

Feature - `disable_bpf_loader_instructions` (solana-labs#35104)

* Remove feature gate for disable_bpf_loader_instructions.

* Disables related tests.

Backport - feature `disable_bpf_loader_instructions` to v1.17 (solana…

…-labs#35093)

* Adds the feature disable_bpf_loader_instructions.

* Deactivates the feature in the tests and benches.