* chore: version bump to 0.9.9

* bump from 0.9.0 to 0.9.9

* node/approval-voting: Introduce Backend trait and Overlaybackend

This commit introduces a Backend trait and attempts to move away
from the Action model via an OverlayBackend as in the ChainSelection
subsystem.

* node/approval-voting: Add WriteOps for StoredBlockRange and BlocksAtHeight

* node/approval-voting: Add load_all_blocks to overlay

* node/approval-voting: Get all module tests to pass.

This commit modifies all tests to ensure tests are passing.

* node/approval-voting: Address oversights in the previous commit

This commit addresses some oversights in the prior commit.

1. Inner errors in backend.write were swallowed
2. One-off write functions removed to avoid useless abstraction
3. Touch-ups in general

* node/approval-voting: Move from TestDB to dyn KeyValueDB

This commit removes the TestDB from tests.rs and replaces it with
an in-memory kvdb.

* node/approval-voting: Address feedback

* node/approval-voting: Add license to ops.rs

* node/approval-voting: Address second-pass feedback

* Add TODO

* node/approval-voting: Bump spec_version

* node/approval-voting: Address final comments.

* node/approval-voting: Introduce framework for full subsystem tests

* node/approval-voting: Introduce basic tests to attempt to provide
coverage via full subsystem tests

* node/approval-voting: Introduce Chainbuilder

* bump a bunch of deps in parity-common

* update Substrate

* fix browser check

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* node/approval-voting: Introduce LruCache for pending Approval work

This commit adds an LruCache that is intended to track the approval work
submitted as background tasks in order to ensure that the validator needn't
launch duplicate approval work for the same candidate across multiple blocks.
A simple state machine is also introduced in order to differentiate pending
and completed tasks. In addition, this LruCache will retain ValidationResults
from the completed approval work once the task has completed. As per LruCache
implementation, the oldest tasks will get evicted as new approval work is
submitted to this cache.

* node/approval-voting: Revert changes to master

This commit reverts changes from the previous commit in order
to simplify addressing the architecture discussion raised in the PR.

* node/approval-voting: remove background task mpsc construct

This diff removes the mpsc construct for background tasks in preparation
for a move to leveraging RemoteHandles to launch approvals, rather than
passing ApprovalRequests to a mpsc channel and handling the ApprovalRequests
in the main subsystem task.

* node/approval-voting: Introduce LRU Cache

This commit introduces an LRU Cache but does not yet make use of it.

* node/approval-voting: Remove BackgroundTasksMap and memoize currently_checking

This commit removes the BackgroundTasksMap in the main subsystem task
and introduces a method to keep track of RemoteHandles in such a way that
we can ensure that a task is spawned once for a CandidateHash and
relay parent tuple.

* node/approval-voting: Remove BackgroundTasksMap and memoize currently_checking

This commit removes the BackgroundTasksMap in the main subsystem task
and introduces a map of FuturesUnordered per BlockNumber. In addition,
a FusedFuture is generated by iterating across all FuturesUnordered for
the BlockNumbers for which at least one candidate has approvals work
running in the subsystem.

* node/approval-voting: Address Rob's comments

This diff removes the prior HashMap<BlockNumber, FuturesUnordered>
construction and instead moves to a simple FuturesUnordered where
all the work is await with Timeout.

* node/approval-voting: Update Cargo.lock

Due to a mismatch in rustc versions

* node/approval-voting: Make use of actions when issuing_approval

This commit fixes a small oversight in the logic of the prior commit.

* node/approval-voting: Address Rob's feedback

* node/approval-voting: Introduce lazy launch_approval evaluation

* node/approval-voting: Send DistibruteApproval message on every LaunchApproval

In addition to fixed the DistributeApproval bug, this commit also
increases the size of the approvals cache and ensures the StaleGuard
is removed when the advantageous approval state is reached.

* node/approval-voting: Address final comments

This commit removes the CandidateIndex from the ApprovalVoteRequest.
Instead, the launch_approval function will compute the candidate_index
from the block entry.

In addition, a comment has been added explaining the difficulty of
issuing approvals in the handle_actions function.

* node/approval-voting: Set timeout to be 120s rather than 2s

* Update Cargo.lock

Bumps [derive_more](https://github.com/JelteF/derive_more) from 0.99.11 to 0.99.14.
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* extract database from av-store itself

* generalize approval-voting over database type

* modes (without handling) and pruning old wakeups

* rework approval importing

* add our_approval_sig to ApprovalEntry

* import assignment

* guide updates for check-full-approval changes

* some aux functions

* send messages when becoming active.

* guide: network bridge sends view updates only when done syncing

* network bridge: send view updates only when done syncing

* tests for new network-bridge behavior

* add a test for updating approval entry with sig

* fix some warnings

* test load-all-blocks

* instantiate new parachains DB

* fix network-bridge empty view updates

* tweak

* fix wasm build, i think

* Update node/core/approval-voting/src/lib.rs

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* add some versioning to parachains_db

* warnings

* fix merge changes

* remove versioning again

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* more tracing for av-store

* Update node/core/av-store/src/lib.rs

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* Update node/core/av-store/src/lib.rs

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* Update node/core/av-store/src/lib.rs

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* Update tracing everywhere

* Fix build

* More fixes

* Push cargo.lock

* Update

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* approval-voting metrics

* metric: approvals produced

* some initial spans for approval voting

* add stage earlier

* Use KeyValueDB in approval-voting

* use KVDB instead of AuxStore

* add rocksdb to cargo toml

* add a Config struct

* create new DB in service

* fix dep for regular node

* make optional

* post merge fix

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* skeleton

* skeleton aux-schema module

* start approval types

* start aux schema with aux store

* doc

* finish basic types

* start approval types

* doc

* finish basic types

* write out schema types

* add debug and codec impls to approval types

* add debug and codec impls to approval types

also add some key computation

* add debug and codec impls to approval types

* getters for block and candidate entries

* grumbles

* remove unused AssignmentId

* load_decode utility

* implement DB clearing

* function for adding new block entry to aux store

* start `canonicalize` implementation

* more skeleton

* finish implementing canonicalize

* tag TODO

* implement a test AuxStore

* add allow(unused)

* basic loading and deleting test

* block_entry test function

* add a test for `add_block_entry`

* ensure range is exclusive at end

* test clear()

* test that add_block sets children

* add a test for canonicalize

* extract Pre-digest from header

* utilities for extracting RelayVRFStory from the header-chain

* add approval voting message types

* approval distribution message type

* subsystem skeleton

* state struct

* add futures-timer

* prepare service for babe slot duration

* more skeleton

* better integrate AuxStore

* RelayVRF -> RelayVRFStory

* canonicalize

* implement some tick functionality

* guide: tweaks

* check_approval

* more tweaks and helpers

* guide: add core index to candidate event

* primitives: add core index to candidate event

* runtime: add core index to candidate events

* head handling (session window)

* implement `determine_new_blocks`

* add TODO

* change error type on functions

* compute RelayVRFModulo assignments

* compute RelayVRFDelay assignments

* fix delay tranche calc

* assignment checking

* pluralize

* some dummy code for fetching assignments

* guide: add babe epoch runtime API

* implement a current_epoch() runtime API

* compute assignments

* candidate events get backing group

* import blocks and assignments into DB

* push block approval meta

* add message types, no overseer integration yet

* notify approval distribution of new blocks

* refactor import into separate functions

* impl tranches_to_approve

* guide: improve function signatures

* guide: remove Tick from ApprovalEntry

* trigger and broadcast assignment

* most of approval launching

* remove byteorder crate

* load blocks back to finality, except on startup

* check unchecked assignments

* add claimed core to approval voting message

* fix checks

* assign only to backing group

* remove import_checked_assignment from guide

* newline

* import assignments

* abstract out a bit

* check and import approvals

* check full approvals from assignment import too

* comment

* create a Transaction utility

* must_use

* use transaction in `check_full_approvals`

* wire up wakeups

* add Ord to CandidateHash

* wakeup refactoring

* return candidate info from add_block_entry

* schedule wakeups

* background task: do candidate validation

* forward candidate validation requests

* issue approval votes when requested

* clean up a couple TODOs

* fix up session caching

* clean up last unimplemented!() items

* fix remaining warnings

* remove TODO

* implement handle_approved_ancestor

* update Cargo.lock

* fix runtime API tests

* guide: cleanup assignment checking

* use claimed candidate index instead of core

* extract time to a trait

* tests module

* write a mock clock for testing

* allow swapping out the clock

* make abstract over assignment criteria

* add some skeleton tests and simplify params

* fix backing group check

* do backing group check inside check_assignment_cert

* write some empty test functions to implement

* add a test for non-backing

* test that produced checks pass

* some empty test ideas

* runtime/inclusion: remove outdated TODO

* fix compilation

* av-store: fix tests

* dummy cert

* criteria tests

* move `TestStore` to main tests file

* fix unused warning

* test harness beginnings

* resolve slots renaming fallout

* more compilation fixes

* wip: extract pure data into a separate module

* wip: extract pure data into a separate module

* move types completely to v1

* add persisted_entries

* add conversion trait impls

* clean up some warnings

* extract import logic to own module

* schedule wakeups

* experiment with Actions

* uncomment approval-checking

* separate module for approval checking utilities

* port more code to use actions

* get approval pipeline using actions

* all logic is uncommented

* main loop processes actions

* all loop logic uncommented

* separate function for handling actions

* remove last unimplemented item

* clean up warnings

* State gives read-only access to underlying DB

* tests for approval checking

* tests for approval criteria

* skeleton test module for import

* list of import tests to do

* some test glue code

* test reject bad assignment

* test slot too far in future

* test reject assignment with unknown candidate

* remove loads_blocks tests

* determine_new_blocks back to finalized & harness

* more coverage for determining new blocks

* make `imported_block_info` have less reliance on State

* candidate_info tests

* tests for session caching

* remove println

* extricate DB and main TestStores

* rewrite approval checking logic to counteract early delays

* move state out of function

* update approval-checking tests

* tweak wakeups & scheduling logic

* rename check_full_approvals

* test that assignment import updates candidate

* some approval import tests

* some tests for check_and_apply_approval

* add 'full' qualifier to avoid confusion

* extract should-trigger logic to separate function

* some tests for all triggering

* tests for when we trigger assignments

* test wakeups

* add block utilities for testing

* some more tests for approval updates

* approved_ancestor tests

* new action type for launch approval

* process-wakeup tests

* clean up some warnings

* fix in_future test

* approval checking tests

* tighten up too-far-in-future

* special-case genesis when caching sessions

* fix bitfield len

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* upgrade codec and bitvec

* "Update Substrate"

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* skeleton

* skeleton aux-schema module

* start approval types

* start aux schema with aux store

* doc

* finish basic types

* start approval types

* doc

* finish basic types

* write out schema types

* add debug and codec impls to approval types

* add debug and codec impls to approval types

also add some key computation

* add debug and codec impls to approval types

* getters for block and candidate entries

* grumbles

* remove unused AssignmentId

* load_decode utility

* implement DB clearing

* function for adding new block entry to aux store

* start `canonicalize` implementation

* more skeleton

* finish implementing canonicalize

* tag TODO

* implement a test AuxStore

* add allow(unused)

* basic loading and deleting test

* block_entry test function

* add a test for `add_block_entry`

* ensure range is exclusive at end

* test clear()

* test that add_block sets children

* add a test for canonicalize

* Update node/core/approval-voting/src/aux_schema/mod.rs

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* Update node/core/approval-voting/src/aux_schema/tests.rs

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* Update node/core/approval-voting/src/aux_schema/mod.rs

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