Release v1.17.0-rc.2

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Features

• use Uint32Array for shuffling/committees (#6475) (@wemeetagain)
• add clone option to state caches (#6512) (@tuyennhv)
• new getCheckpointStateOrBytes() api and clone states from cache (#6504) (@tuyennhv)
• aggressively pull blobs as soon as we see the block (#6499) (@g11tech)
• add endpoint for sync committee reward (#6260) (@ensi321)
• regen to consume state cache reload api (#6456) (@tuyennhv)
• add endpoint for Altair block reward (#6178) (@ensi321)

Bug Fixes

• increase max attestation inclusion slot for post deneb blocks (#6522) (@nflaig)
• remove extra validation from builder response in builder proposal (#6478) (@g11tech)
• increase bodyLimit of the beacon api server (#6476) (@g11tech)
• request retries are abortable (#6466) (@nflaig)
• update SSE payload attributes to be spec compliant (#6471) (@nflaig)

Refactoring

• reuse command types/utils across packages (#6441) (@nflaig)
• update retry function (#6451) (@FaybianB)

Dependencies

• upgrade the lint and prettier deps (#6496) (@nazarhussain)
• update typescript to 5.3.3 (#6491) (@nazarhussain)

Continuous Integration

• remove duplicate debug logs upload step (#6474) (@nflaig)
• fix chrome download in browser tests (#6473) (@nflaig)

Tests

• update beacon api spec to v2.5.0 (#6354) (@jeluard)
• consolidate sim-merge tests (#6344) (@nazarhussain)

Maintenance

• remove state-transition dependency (#6519) (@jeluard)
• simplify LightClient usage (#6506) (@jeluard)
• remove lodash usage (#6501) (@HiroyukiNaito)
• upgrade blst (#6492) (@jeluard)
• restrict node version to 20.x (#6498) (@nflaig)
• add eslint rule to restrict global fetch (#6500) (@nflaig)
• improve missing docker engine detection (#6495) (@jeluard)
• cleanup older dependencies (#6482) (@jeluard)
• update yarn links to point to classic yarn (#6477) (@har777)
• add eslint rule to prevent unused expressions (#6445) (@nflaig)
• clean up prettier-ignore in tests (#6464) (@nflaig)
• use term 'retries' instead of 'retryAttempts' consistently (#6465) (@nflaig)
• merge v1.16.0 stable back to unstable (#6472) (@philknows)

Documentation

• update vc-configuration md doc (#6503) (@philknows)