Rc/v1.7.0

[iulianpascalau]

Reasoning behind the pull request

Proposed changes

Testing procedure

Pre-requisites

Based on the Contributing Guidelines the PR author and the reviewers must check the following requirements are met:

• was the PR targeted to the correct branch?
• if this is a larger feature that probably needs more than one PR, is there a feat branch created?
• if this is a feat branch merging, do all satellite projects have a proper tag inside go.mod?

[codecov]

Codecov Report

Attention: Patch coverage is 61.01695% with 253 lines in your changes are missing coverage. Please review.

Project coverage is 78.75%. Comparing base (190e978) to head (884c593).
Report is 47 commits behind head on master.

❗ Current head 884c593 differs from pull request most recent head 8732346. Consider uploading reports for the commit 8732346 to get more accurate results

Files	Patch %	Lines
node/chainSimulator/chainSimulator.go	0.00%	75 Missing ⚠️
node/chainSimulator/configs/configs.go	0.00%	66 Missing ⚠️
...hainSimulator/components/testOnlyProcessingNode.go	0.00%	51 Missing ⚠️
node/chainSimulator/components/statusComponents.go	45.83%	11 Missing and 2 partials ⚠️
epochStart/metachain/legacySystemSCs.go	75.55%	9 Missing and 2 partials ⚠️
genesis/process/genesisBlockCreator.go	66.66%	4 Missing and 3 partials ⚠️
genesis/process/shardGenesisBlockCreator.go	87.75%	3 Missing and 3 partials ⚠️
...ode/chainSimulator/components/processComponents.go	0.00%	6 Missing ⚠️
epochStart/metachain/auctionListSelector.go	90.47%	3 Missing and 1 partial ⚠️
epochStart/metachain/systemSCs.go	80.00%	2 Missing and 2 partials ⚠️
... and 4 more

Additional details and impacted files

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- Coverage   79.88%   78.75%   -1.13%     
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  Lines       97999    98116     +117     
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- Hits        78285    77272    -1013     
- Misses      14298    15605    +1307     
+ Partials     5416     5239     -177     

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