Release Notes for 1.8.3-GA

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Requirements

Added notification for Account Approvers when a Cart is submitted for Approval.
- The notification is automatically triggered in Cart Services when the cart updates are persisted.
Removed need to send a separate HTTP request to Cart Services to trigger the Cart Rejected notification.
- This is now done automatically when the cart updates are persisted.
Introduced TaxCalculationStrategy and hook points for pricing flow and better support estimated tax calculation
- Related changes also made in TaxCommon

Fixed error being surfaced to customer when a notification could not be sent when after a successful Account cart rejection.
- Instead, this error is logged since the cart status was successfully updated so the operation should not fail.

PaymentTaxAddressSourceHandler#canHandle
- Now determines if the given cart and fulfillment group can be handled purely based on its taxAddressSource, whether address is valid is shifted into DefaultDelegatingTaxService#canCalculateTaxes
ShippingTaxAddressSourceHandler#canHandle
- Now determines if the given cart and fulfillment group can be handled purely based on its taxAddressSource, whether address is valid is shifted into DefaultDelegatingTaxService#canCalculateTaxes
DefaultDelegatingTaxService#canCalculateTaxes
- Now accepts an address that only has stateProvinceRegion and country

DefaultCartPricingService#applyTaxes
- Now takes an additional estimate - boolean parameter to control whether the tax calculation is going to be estimated