m0.9.6

Gmet m0.9.6 is a MUST upgrade aimed to follow Ethereum's Istanbul hard fork (Eth2.0).
The current fixed block number for the transition is: Block Number: #11441000.
The expected date for the hard fork is Wednesday, November 18, 2020.

Commits

• updated block number to apply istanbul upgrade to metadium mainnet to 11441000 (5b383cf)
• updated genesis for mainnet and testnet (15f0a2d)
• updated default genesis template to enable istanbul (a28fa12)
• fixed an issue in istanbul overriding (d72a635)
• updated block number to apply istanbul upgrade to metadium testnet (4ecbc24)
• set block numbers for istanbul (a63abd3)
• updated gmet.sh (f7e87a3)
• rocksdb batch replay update (36e996e)
• updated 'make clean' (287cc02)
• added git submodule init for rocksdb (4b9ec01)
• updated ttlScaling (60304a9)
• bumped protocol version up to eth65 to differentiate from metadium 64 (db19a04)
• In metadium, fork order is not enforced (2bfa80e)
• updated Makefile to accomoodate rocksdb (ffb3b32)
• added rocksdb as submodule (c1959b9)
• removed no longer needed vendor files (098bd07)
• merged go-ethereum v1.9.10 (a811cb1)
• implemented replay function for rocksdb (d4184f7)
• Doesn't always increase timestamp for metadium (51e8a72)
• disabled db freeze functionality with rocksdb for now (9f660d3)
• updated callGas for backward compatibility (f3a9d9a)
• eip 150 is enabled in template (4c3208f)
• merged go-ethereum v1.9.6 (f3c5869)