release candidate

[hassanctech]

Issue #, if available:

What was changed?

• Merging release items into master branch

Why was it changed?

• To update master with the release related changes

How was it changed?

• Threadpool
• Enhancements to the internal state machinery to avoid potential stack overflows
• Deadlock fixes
• Stability enhancements

What testing was done for the changes?

• Verify CI runs clean

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[codecov-commenter]

Codecov Report

Attention: Patch coverage is 71.79487% with 66 lines in your changes are missing coverage. Please review.

Project coverage is 80.35%. Comparing base (57637ea) to head (fd7d68c).

:exclamation: Current head fd7d68c differs from pull request most recent head d4768e5. Consider uploading reports for the commit d4768e5 to get more accurate results

Files	Patch %	Lines
src/utils/src/Threadpool.c	71.42%	28 Missing :warning:
src/utils/src/TimerQueue.c	0.00%	15 Missing :warning:
src/client/src/Stream.c	50.00%	4 Missing :warning:
src/state/src/State.c	90.24%	4 Missing :warning:
src/utils/src/CustomAssert.c	0.00%	4 Missing :warning:
src/utils/src/FileIo.c	40.00%	3 Missing :warning:
src/view/src/ContentView.c	25.00%	3 Missing :warning:
src/client/src/StreamState.c	87.50%	2 Missing :warning:
src/client/src/Client.c	0.00%	1 Missing :warning:
src/heap/src/HybridFileHeap.c	94.11%	1 Missing :warning:
... and 1 more

Additional details and impacted files

```diff @@ Coverage Diff @@ ## master #244 +/- ## ========================================== + Coverage 75.18% 80.35% +5.17% ========================================== Files 52 53 +1 Lines 10182 10811 +629 ========================================== + Hits 7655 8687 +1032 + Misses 2527 2124 -403 ```

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