Change-set support, snapshot

This release contains modifications to most of the SEACAS applications to support ChangeSets to some degree.
See /~https://github.com/SandiaLabs/seacas/wiki/Dynamic_Topology for information about Change Sets and
See /~https://github.com/SandiaLabs/seacas/wiki/Supporting-Change-Sets for information about how the various seacas applications are supporting the use or creation of change sets.

The release also includes various other small changes including formatting, portability, intallation, TPL version updates, and spelling.

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Initial dynamic topology support.
Field metadata support, DG
Exodus persistent redef mode to speed up field metadata
EPU, EJoin better timestep selection
Nem_slice 1D support

v2024-07-10

A couple bug fixes from last tag:

• Fix missing include so will build with fmt-11.0.1 release
• Fix missing include
• Fix database timestep consistency check if one or more of the databases have no timesteps. Parallel IO case only.

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Contains the extended field metadata additions

Contains Catalyst2 latest developments

Contains line decomp option in ioss auto-decomp

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Latest release tested in Sierra and Trilinos

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Mostly bug-fixes; some new functionality

Cleaned up C++ constructor usage by not providing unneeded constructors/destructors.
Do not rely on a std::vector::data() method to provide null pointer on emtpy vectors -- use Data(std::vector) wrapper to guarantee.
Better windows build -- should support shared exodus library for use with python libraries.

Fix issue with v2023-10-24

The v2023-10-24 tag included some branch code. Redoing tag to get correct code.

Includes all changes in v2023-10-24:
Aprepro loop, no-echo {{expression}} shortcut, and physical constants are a big change.
Lots of robustness fixes.
New databases useful for testing -- Null, ExoNull, and TextMesh
New zoltan-based decomposition methods in Slice.
Lots of other bug fixes and enhancements and code cleanups.

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v2023-05-30

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v2022-10-14

Use c++17 fallthrough; remove unused fallthrough

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v2022-08-01

IOSS: Add missing DebugOut(), increase logging time precision