update version (#3455)

* update version
* add non-cherrypicked changes

Signed-off-by: Danno Ferrin <danno.ferrin@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Sally MacFarlane <sally.macfarlane@consensys.net>

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,15 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 22.1.1
+
+### Additions and Improvements
+- Merge: extend block creation and mining to support The Merge [#3412](https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/pull/3412)
+- Merge: backward sync [#3410](https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/pull/3410)
+- Merge: Extend validateAndProcessBlock to return an error message in case of failure, so it can be returned to the caller of ExecutePayload API [#3411](https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/pull/3411)
+- Merge: Persist latest finalized block [#2913](https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/issues/2913)
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
 ## 22.1.0
 
 ### Breaking Changes

gradle.properties

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-version=22.1.0-RC4-SNAPSHOT
+version=22.1.1-SNAPSHOT
 
 # Workaround for Java 16 and spotless bug 834 https://github.com/diffplug/spotless/issues/834
 org.gradle.jvmargs=--add-exports jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.api=ALL-UNNAMED \