Release v0.48.1 (#3286)

## Version v0.48.1

### Changed
- [3243](https://github.com/FuelLabs/fuel-core/pull/3243): Migrating
from standard Debian slim base Docker images to GCR Distroless images.
- [3255](https://github.com/FuelLabs/fuel-core/pull/3255): Adds client &
server support for the existing protobuf HTTP-based remote RPC block
accessor.
- [3259](https://github.com/FuelLabs/fuel-core/pull/3259): Bump wasmtime
to 0.43.1

### Fixed
- [3258](https://github.com/FuelLabs/fuel-core/pull/3258): Fix
backward-compatiblity of GraphQL queries for pre-0.48.0 versions
- [3261](https://github.com/FuelLabs/fuel-core/pull/3261): Fix PoA
leader deadlock after reconciliation import where `ensure_synced()`
blocked forever because `execute_and_commit` marked reconciliation
blocks as `Source::Network`, causing the SyncTask to transition to
`NotSynced`.
- [3264](https://github.com/FuelLabs/fuel-core/pull/3264): Rollback
stale preconfirmations in the mempool when the canonical block at that
height omits the preconfirmed transactions, restoring spent inputs and
removing dependent transactions.
- [3269](https://github.com/FuelLabs/fuel-core/pull/3269): Fix PoA
reconciliation deadlock when the same block exists on all Redis nodes
but with different epochs. `unreconciled_blocks` now groups votes by
`block_id` only (tracking max epoch as tiebreaker), so identical blocks
written during re-promotion storms count toward quorum.
- [3272](https://github.com/FuelLabs/fuel-core/pull/3272): Improve
performance of redis block publish by making more parallel and
optimizing the lua code
- [3278](https://github.com/FuelLabs/fuel-core/pull/3278): Fix mainnet
block-production hang when a single ElastiCache leader-lock node enters
a half-alive state. Bumps `redis` to 1.2 (the older 0.27 client did not
apply the connect timeout to the post-connect handshake pipeline) and
short-circuits `publish_block_on_all_nodes` on quorum so a stuck
per-node thread can no longer wedge the publish path.
- [3281](https://github.com/FuelLabs/fuel-core/pull/3281): Add
forward-compatibility for old clients and new fuel-core

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