chore(release): candidate v1.7.2

[mega-maxwell]

Release candidate v1.7.2 (was 1.7.1).

Merging this PR creates the release branch release-v1.7.2 at the merge commit.

It creates no tag; the tag is cut once, at settlement, by release-settle → release-publish.

Changelog: this release's entry drafted under ## v1.7.2 (settle stamps the date on the release branch);
previous release's entry synced from its tag: replaced.

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[github-actions]

🧬 Mutation testing — ✅ PASS

Nothing to test — no mutants were generated on the changed lines.

[github-actions]

🧬 Mutation testing

No results at target/mutants/mutants.out — nothing was mutated (e.g. no mutatable changes).

[codspeed]

Merging this PR will not alter performance

⚠️ 16 benchmarks measured no execution time

Nothing ran under measurement, usually because the compiler removed the code under test. These results are not comparable, so they count as unchanged.

Preventing compiler optimizations

✅ 385 untouched benchmarks
🗄️ 44 archived benchmarks run¹

Performance Changes

	Benchmark	BASE	HEAD	Efficiency
⚠️	estimated_da_size[0]	< 1 ns	< 1 ns	N/A
⚠️	estimated_da_size[1000]	< 1 ns	< 1 ns	N/A
⚠️	estimated_da_size[180]	< 1 ns	< 1 ns	N/A
⚠️	estimated_da_size[68]	< 1 ns	< 1 ns	N/A
⚠️	tx_size[0]	< 1 ns	< 1 ns	N/A
⚠️	tx_size[1000]	< 1 ns	< 1 ns	N/A
⚠️	tx_size[180]	< 1 ns	< 1 ns	N/A
⚠️	tx_size[68]	< 1 ns	< 1 ns	N/A
⚠️	estimated_da_size[0]	< 1 ns	< 1 ns	N/A
⚠️	estimated_da_size[1000]	< 1 ns	< 1 ns	N/A
⚠️	estimated_da_size[180]	< 1 ns	< 1 ns	N/A
⚠️	estimated_da_size[68]	< 1 ns	< 1 ns	N/A
⚠️	tx_size[0]	< 1 ns	< 1 ns	N/A
⚠️	tx_size[1000]	< 1 ns	< 1 ns	N/A
⚠️	tx_size[180]	< 1 ns	< 1 ns	N/A
⚠️	tx_size[68]	< 1 ns	< 1 ns	N/A

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_{Comparing chore/release-candidate-1.7.2 (c01acc3) with main (17ca265)}

Footnotes

1. 44 benchmarks were run, but are now archived. If they were deleted in another branch, consider rebasing to remove them from the report. Instead if they were added back, click here to restore them. ↩