feat/go v1.20.5 integration

[iulianpascalau]

Reasoning behind the pull request

• migrating from go compiler v1.17.6 to go v1.20.5

Proposed changes

• integration work to assure backwards compatibility

Testing procedure

• standard system test
• half-half system test
• import-db system test

Pre-requisites

Based on the Contributing Guidelines the PR author and the reviewers must check the following requirements are met:

• was the PR targeted to the correct branch?
• if this is a larger feature that probably needs more than one PR, is there a feat branch created?
• if this is a feat branch merging, do all satellite projects have a proper tag inside go.mod?

[codecov]

Codecov Report

Patch coverage: 100.00% and project coverage change: +0.04 🎉

Comparison is base (ade2adf) 77.57% compared to head (831d699) 77.61%.

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Additional details and impacted files

@@            Coverage Diff             @@
##           master    #5406      +/-   ##
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+ Coverage   77.57%   77.61%   +0.04%     
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  Files         654      656       +2     
  Lines       86044    86205     +161     
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+ Hits        66745    66906     +161     
  Misses      14092    14092              
  Partials     5207     5207              

Impacted Files	Coverage Δ
factory/network/networkComponents.go	74.60% <ø> (-0.40%)	⬇️
common/compatibility/quickSorter.go	100.00% <100.00%> (ø)
common/compatibility/sorter.go	100.00% <100.00%> (ø)
common/enablers/enableEpochsHandler.go	74.28% <100.00%> (+0.18%)	⬆️
common/enablers/epochFlags.go	92.25% <100.00%> (+0.08%)	⬆️
epochStart/metachain/validators.go	79.13% <100.00%> (+4.04%)	⬆️

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