To Discuss for 6.0.0

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Node Ease of Use

• "asset" struct incoming parameters error. AntelopeIO/DUNES#21
• Changing Boost Version
• Automatic DB Migration

Trace API Improvements

• Trace API plugin response times vary by block height AntelopeIO/leap#1219

Enhanced Parallelization

• get_info off the main thread AntelopeIO/leap#1212
• Make snapshot loading multi-threaded  AntelopeIO/spring#437

Reduced Latency

• Improve P2P sync - start trx key recovery early AntelopeIO/leap#1114

Snapshot Improvements

• Make snapshot file names more user friendly AntelopeIO/leap#1043
• P2P: stop nodeos from syncing blocks from the network while snapshot in progress AntelopeIO/leap#1128
• When nodeos is taking a snapshot, print logs AntelopeIO/spring#510
• When nodeos is starting up from a snapshot print more logs AntelopeIO/leap#1167
• Auto-compress snapshots and load compressed snapshots AntelopeIO/leap#1168

Low Hanging Features

• Option to expand setabi abi AntelopeIO/leap#1144

Tech Debt

• Split cleos into library and CLI utility AntelopeIO/leap#1048
• Replace fc logging with spdlog AntelopeIO/leap#1127
• bn256 unit tests are not run as part of spring's build AntelopeIO/spring#962

Disabling deferred transactions

Reduce Disk Wear

• As a node operator, I want nodeos to minimize disc IO without consuming more RAM, to reduce the wear on my hard drives
• As a node operator, I want to be able to make a tradeoff between ease of restart and frequency of disc IO, to reduce the wear on my hard drives
• As a node operator, I want nodeos to flush state to disc periodically instead of synchronously to reduce wear on my hard drives