23.1.0-RC2 release (#5065)

Signed-off-by: Simon Dudley <simon.dudley@consensys.net>

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Changelog
 
-## 23.1.1
+## 23.1.0-RC2
 
 ### Breaking Changes
 - Add a new CLI option to limit the number of requests in a single RPC batch request. Default=1 [#4965](https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/pull/4965)
@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ tests are updated to use EC private keys instead of RSA keys.
 - Change eth_feeHistory parameter `blockCount` to accept hexadecimal string (was accepting plain integer) [#5047](https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/pull/5047)
 
 ### Additions and Improvements
+- Support for new DATAHASH opcode as part of EIP-4844 [#4823](https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/issues/4823)
+- Send only hash announcement for blob transaction type [#4940](https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/pull/4940)
+- Add `excess_data_gas` field to block header [#4958](https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/pull/4958)
+- Add `max_fee_per_data_gas` field to transaction [#4970](https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/pull/4970)
 - Added option to evm CLI tool to allow code execution at specific forks [#4913](https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/pull/4913)
 - Improve get account performance by using the world state updater cache [#4897](https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/pull/4897)
 - Add new KZG precompile and option to override the trusted setup being used [#4822](https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/issues/4822)
@@ -19,18 +23,8 @@ tests are updated to use EC private keys instead of RSA keys.
 - Updated reference tests to v11.3 [#4996](https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/pull/4996)
 - Add DebugGetRawBlock and DebugGetRawHeader RPC methods [#5011](https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/pull/5011)
 - Besu requires minimum Java 17 and up to build and run [#3320](https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/issues/3320)
-
-### Bug Fixes
-
-## 23.1.0
-
-### Breaking Changes
-
-### Additions and Improvements
-- Support for new DATAHASH opcode as part of EIP-4844 [#4823](https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/issues/4823)
-- Send only hash announcement for blob transaction type [#4940](https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/pull/4940)
-- Add `excess_data_gas` field to block header [#4958](https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/pull/4958)
-- Add `max_fee_per_data_gas` field to transaction [#4970](https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/pull/4970)
+- Add worldstate auto-heal mechanism [#5059](https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/pull/5059)
+- Support for EIP-4895 - Withdrawals for Shanghai fork
 
 ### Bug Fixes
 - Mitigation fix for stale bonsai code storage leading to log rolling issues on contract recreates [#4906](https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/pull/4906)

gradle.properties

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-version=23.1.0-SNAPSHOT
+version=23.1.0-RC2
 
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+--add-exports jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.api=ALL-UNNAMED \
+--add-exports jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.file=ALL-UNNAMED \
+--add-exports jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.main=ALL-UNNAMED \
+--add-exports jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.model=ALL-UNNAMED \
+--add-exports jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.parser=ALL-UNNAMED \
+--add-exports jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.processing=ALL-UNNAMED \
+--add-exports jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.tree=ALL-UNNAMED \
+--add-exports jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.util=ALL-UNNAMED \
+--add-opens jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.code=ALL-UNNAMED \
+--add-opens jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.comp=ALL-UNNAMED \
+--add-opens jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.parser=ALL-UNNAMED