chore: merge main to next

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -31,13 +31,19 @@
 - [BREAKING] Changed `SyncChainMmr` endpoint: the upper end of the block range we're syncing is now the chain tip with the requested finality level. Validator signature is also returned ([#2075](https://github.com/0xMiden/node/pull/2075)).
 - [BREAKING] Renamed `SubmitProvenTransaction` RPC endpoint to `SubmitProvenTx` ([#2094](https://github.com/0xMiden/node/pull/2094)).
 - [BREAKING] Renamed `SubmitProvenBatch` RPC endpoint to `SubmitProvenTxBatch` ([#2094](https://github.com/0xMiden/node/pull/2094)).
+## v0.14.11 (TBD)
+
+- Replaced blocking-in-async operations in the validator, remote prover, and ntx-builder with `spawn_blocking` to avoid starving the Tokio runtime ([#2041](https://github.com/0xMiden/node/pull/2041)).
+- Implement persistent RocksDB backend for `AccountStateForest`, improving startup time ([#2020](https://github.com/0xMiden/node/pull/2020)).
+- Fixed network transaction builder permanently dropping notes after transient infrastructure failures. These now retry with exponential backoff at the actor level instead of consuming per-note retry budget ([#2052](https://github.com/0xMiden/node/issues/2052)).
 
 ## v0.14.10 (2026-05-29)
 
 - Optimize `GetAccount` implementation to serve vault assets from `AccountStateForest` ([#1981](https://github.com/0xMiden/node/pull/1981)).
 - Added `accept`, `origin`, `user-agent`, `forwarded`, `x-forwarded-for` and `x-real-ip` headers to telemetry for gRPC requests ([#1982](https://github.com/0xMiden/node/pull/1982)).
 - Trace additional RPC request properties e.g. `account.id` in `GetAccount` ([#1983](https://github.com/0xMiden/node/pull/1983)).
 - Fixed occasional mempool panic during transaction submission, causing the lock to be held for longer than expected ([#1984](https://github.com/0xMiden/node/pull/1984)).
+- Optimize `GetAccount` implementation: `all_entries` requests now mostly use state from `AccountStateForest` ([#2012](https://github.com/0xMiden/node/pull/2012)).
 
 ## v0.14.9 (2026-04-21)
 

Cargo.toml

@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ miden-crypto = { version = "0.23" }
 anyhow            = { version = "1.0" }
 assert_matches    = { version = "1.5" }
 async-trait       = { version = "0.1" }
+backon            = { version = "1.6" }
 build-rs          = { version = "0.3" }
 clap              = { features = ["derive"], version = "4.5" }
 codegen           = { version = "0.3" }

bin/ntx-builder/Cargo.toml

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ doctest = false
 
 [dependencies]
 anyhow                     = { workspace = true }
+backon                     = { workspace = true }
 clap                       = { features = ["env", "string"], workspace = true }
 diesel                     = { features = ["numeric", "sqlite"], workspace = true }
 futures                    = { workspace = true }