Release v1.31.0-rc.1

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Features

• track invalid attestation data reason when producing blocks (#7891) (@twoeths)
• more metrics for SyncContributionAndProofPool (#7852) (@twoeths)
• block input cache (#7845) (@matthewkeil)
• implement BPO EIP-7892 (#7729) (@ensi321)
• update weak subjectivity calculation for electra (#7735) (@ensi321)
• block input additive refactor (#7776) (@wemeetagain)

Bug Fixes

• do not throw error for non-hashtree hashers (#7896) (@twoeths)
• update Beacon api impl to enforce unique array (#7875) (@mkermani144)
• remove arm check (#7897) (@matthewkeil)
• avx check in conditional (#7893) (@matthewkeil)
• default to as-sha256 if no chip support for AVX (#7887) (@matthewkeil)
• cache seen aggregated attestations by committee index (#7890) (@wemeetagain)
• add special handling for blob schedule when asserting equal params (#7859) (@nflaig)
• remove isProcessingCurrentSlotBlock (#7848) (@twoeths)
• review EIP-7045 (#7838) (@ensi321)
• advance pre state's slot used in rewards endpoints (#7842) (@ensi321)

Refactoring

• move historical state metrics to separate module (#7876) (@nazarhussain)
• add method to get ancestor & non-ancestor nodes in single traversal (#7528) (@bomanaps)
• cleanup block production (#7834) (@nazarhussain)
• deduplicate PeerIdStr type (#7824) (@matthewkeil)
• move validator monitor metrics to validator monitor (#7722) (@KatyaRyazantseva)

Tests

• add nightly run Kurtosis sim test (#7821) (@ensi321)

Maintenance

• track AggregatedAttestationPool metrics on Grafana (#7900) (@twoeths)
• track gossip AggregateAndProof error on Grafana (#7899) (@twoeths)
• bump ssz to v1.2.1 (#7894) (@wemeetagain)
• remove deneb/electra entries from blob schedule (#7888) (@nflaig)
• restore dashboard variable names and inputs during download (#7872) (@nflaig)
• bump @chainsafe/threads to v1.11.2 (#7877) (@nflaig)
• throw error if ssz types for fork are not defined (#7850) (@nflaig)
• correct labels of gossipsub_iwant_promise_delivery_seconds metrics (#7878) (@twoeths)
• sanity check genesis block root against state latest block root (#7863) (@nflaig)
• upgrade Node.js version in devcontainer configuration (#7865) (@mkermani144)
• track mesh peers by client (#7864) (@twoeths)
• remove node_modules from actions cache (#7820) (@wemeetagain)
• add blob schedule to each network config (#7858) (@nflaig)
• update dashboards for gossip_block_elapsed_time_till_received labels (#7836) (@KatyaRyazantseva)
• fix tsconfig for type check for lightclient bundle (#7830) (@nazarhussain)
• remove axios from spec-test-utils (#7829) (@philknows)
• fix broken panels due to missing historical state worker metrics (#7826) (@nflaig)
• remove now unused tar dependency (#7822) (@nflaig)
• update @actions/cache to latest version (v4) (#7819) (@matthewkeil)
• use native fetch / tar to download / extract spec tests (#7816) (@nflaig)

Documentation

• add python distutils to faqs (#7835) (@philknows)