Backports for 2.1.0 beta (#9518)

* parity-version: mark 2.1.0 track beta

* ci: update branch version references

* docker: release master to latest

* Fix checkpointing when creating contract failed (#9514)

* ci: fix json docs generation (#9515)

* fix typo in version string (#9516)

* Update patricia trie to 0.2.2 crates. Default dependencies on minor
version only.

* Putting back ethereum tests to the right commit

* Enable all Constantinople hard fork changes in constantinople_test.json (#9505)

* Enable all Constantinople hard fork changes in constantinople_test.json

* Address grumbles

* Remove EIP-210 activation

* 8m -> 5m

* Temporarily add back eip210 transition so we can get test passed

* Add eip210_test and remove eip210 transition from const_test

* In create memory calculation is the same for create2 because the additional parameter was popped before. (#9522)

* deps: bump fs-swap and kvdb-rocksdb

* Multithreaded snapshot creation (#9239)

* Add Progress to Snapshot Secondary chunks creation

* Use half of CPUs to multithread snapshot creation

* Use env var to define number of threads

* info to debug logs

* Add Snapshot threads as CLI option

* Randomize chunks per thread

* Remove randomness, add debugging

* Add warning

* Add tracing

* Use parity-common fix seek branch

* Fix log

* Fix tests

* Fix tests

* PR Grumbles

* PR Grumble II

* Update Cargo.lock

* PR Grumbles

* Default snapshot threads to half number of CPUs

* Fix default snapshot threads // min 1

* correct before_script for nightly build versions (#9543)

- fix gitlab array of strings syntax error
- get proper commit id
- avoid colon in stings

* Remove initial token for WS. (#9545)

* version: mark release critical

* ci: fix rpc docs generation 2 (#9550)

* Improve P2P discovery (#9526)

* Add `target` to Rust traces

* network-devp2p: Don't remove discovery peer in main sync

* network-p2p: Refresh discovery more often

* Update Peer discovery protocol

* Run discovery more often when not enough nodes connected

* Start the first discovery early

* Update fast discovery rate

* Fix tests

* Fix `ping` tests

* Fixing remote Node address ; adding PingPong round

* Fix tests: update new +1 PingPong round

* Increase slow Discovery rate
Check in flight FindNode before pings

* Add `deprecated` to deprecated_echo_hash

* Refactor `discovery_round` branching

* net_version caches network_id to avoid redundant aquire of sync read lock (#9544)

* net_version caches network_id to avoid redundant aquire of sync read lock, #8746

* use lower_hex display formatting for net_peerCount rpc method

* Increase Gas-floor-target and Gas Cap (#9564)

+ Gas-floor-target increased to 8M by default

+ Gas-cap increased to 10M by default

* Revert to old parity-tokio-ipc.

* Downgrade named pipes.

rpc/src/authcodes.rs

@@ -50,8 +50,6 @@ impl TimeProvider for DefaultTimeProvider {
 const TIME_THRESHOLD: u64 = 7;
 /// minimal length of hash
 const TOKEN_LENGTH: usize = 16;
-/// special "initial" token used for authorization when there are no tokens yet.
-const INITIAL_TOKEN: &'static str = "initial";
 /// Separator between fields in serialized tokens file.
 const SEPARATOR: &'static str = ";";
 /// Number of seconds to keep unused tokens.
@@ -163,16 +161,6 @@ impl<T: TimeProvider> AuthCodes<T> {
 
 		let as_token = |code| keccak(format!("{}:{}", code, time));
 
-		// Check if it's the initial token.
-		if self.is_empty() {
-			let initial = &as_token(INITIAL_TOKEN) == hash;
-			// Initial token can be used only once.
-			if initial {
-				let _ = self.generate_new();
-			}
-			return initial;
-		}
-
 		// look for code
 		for code in &mut self.codes {
 			if &as_token(&code.code) == hash {
@@ -239,7 +227,7 @@ mod tests {
 	}
 
 	#[test]
-	fn should_return_true_if_code_is_initial_and_store_is_empty() {
+	fn should_return_false_even_if_code_is_initial_and_store_is_empty() {
 		// given
 		let code = "initial";
 		let time = 99;
@@ -250,7 +238,7 @@ mod tests {
 		let res2 = codes.is_valid(&generate_hash(code, time), time);
 
 		// then
-		assert_eq!(res1, true);
+		assert_eq!(res1, false);
 		assert_eq!(res2, false);
 	}