(cherry picked from commit d0fcf10)

* master: (183 commits)
  Adding tests for writing null blocks with and without compression
  Replace LookupWriterRec's linear search on RecList with an unordered_map. For 250k variables, time goes from 21sec to ~1sec in WSL. The order of entries in RecList was not necessary for the serializer to work correctly.
  Merge pull request ornladios#3805 from pnorbert/fix-bpls-string-scalar
  Merge pull request ornladios#3804 from pnorbert/fix-aws-version
  Merge pull request ornladios#3759 from pnorbert/bp5dbg-metadata
  new attempt to commit query support of local array. (ornladios#3868)
  MPI::MPI_Fortran should be INTERFACE not PUBLIC
  Fix hip example compilation error (ornladios#3865)
  Server Improvements (ornladios#3862)
  ascent,ci: remove unshallow flag
  Remove Slack as a contact mechanism (ornladios#3866)
  bug fix:  syntax error in json  output (ornladios#3857)
  Update the bpWriterReadHip example's cmake to run on crusher
  Examples: Use BPFile instead of BP3/4/5 for future-proof
  inlineMWE example: Close files at the end
  Examples: Add BeginStep/EndStep wherever it was missing
  BP5Serializer: handle local variables that use operators (ornladios#3859)
  Blosc2 USE ON: Fix Module Fallback (ornladios#3774)
  SST,MPI,DP: soft handle peer error
  SST,MPI,DP: improve uniq identifier
  Fix destdir install test (ornladios#3850)
  cmake: include ctest before detectoptions
  ci: enable tau check
  Add/Improve the ReadMe.md files in examples directory
  Disable BUILD_TESTING and ADIOS2_BUILD_EXAMPLES by default
  Remove testing based on ADIOS2-examples
  Fix formatting issue in DetectOptions.cmake
  Add examples from ADIOS2-Examples
  Improve existing examples
  MPI_DP: do not call MPI_Init (ornladios#3847)
  cmake: update minimum cmake to 3.12 (ornladios#3849)
  MPI: add timeout for conf test for MPI_DP (ornladios#3848)
  Tweak Remote class and test multi-threaded file remote access (ornladios#3834)
  Add prototype testing of remote functionality (ornladios#3830)
  Try always using the MPI version
  Try always using the MPI version
  Import tests from bp to staging common, implement memory selection in SST
  ci: fix codeql ignore path (ornladios#3772)
  install: export adios2 device variables (ornladios#3819)
  added support to query BP5 files (ornladios#3809)
  ffs 2023-09-19 (67e411c0)
  Fix abs/rel step in BP5 DoCount
  fix dummy Win build
  Pass Array Order of reader to remote server for proper Get() operation
  Fix the ADIOS_USE_{_} variable names to use ADIOS2
  Remove BP5 BetweenStepPairs variable that hides Engine.h counterpart
  Delete experimental examples
  yaml-cpp: support 0.8.0 version
  Mod not to overload to make some compilers happy
  Mod to keep MinBlocksInfo private to BP5Writer, not reuse Engine.h API.
  gha,ci: update checkout to v4
  Limit testing changes to BP5
  tests: fix windows 64bit type issues
  Add location of hdf5.dll to PATH for windows tests
  Fix more compiler warnings from ompi build
  clang format
  Fix size_t -> int conversion warnings
  Allow building with Visual Studio and HDF5 shared libs
  Fixup local var reading by block with test, master branch
  use documented initial cache variable to find hdf5 on windows
  ci: Add HDF5 to a windows build
  Remove unused SelectionType values
  Update ADIOS2 HDF5 VOL with basic set of capability flags
  defines
  reorder
  Remove file before writing, catch exceptions
  format
  Reader-side Profiling
  removed  a comment
  ci: disable MGARD static build
  cmake: fix ffs dependency
  removed comments and cleaned up more code
  bp5: remove ADIOS2_USE_BP5 option
  operators: fix module library
  ci: Create static minimal build
  cmake: correct prefer_shared_blosc behavior
  removing warning from auto
  clang-format
  match type of timestep for h5 engine to size_t (same as adios VariableBase class) when storing to hdf5, check the limit of size_t and match to the right type (uint, ulong, default ulonglong)
  BP5Deserialize: modify changes to keep abi compt
  Rename test. fix windows compile errors.
  add codeql workflow
  Fix ChunkV maintaining CurOffset when downsizing current chunk in Allocate() and creating the next chunk.
  ci: fix docker images names
  removed kwsys gitattributes
  KWSys 2023-05-25 (c9f0da47)
  fixup! ci: add mgard dependency to spack builds
  ci: remove unused script part
  cmake: remove redundant pugixml dependency
  ci: add mgard dependency to spack builds
  cmake: Remove enet config warning
  cmake: resolve cmake python deprecation
  enet 2023-08-15 (7587eb15)
  EVPath 2023-08-15 (657c7fa4)
  dill 2023-08-15 (235dadf0)
  atl 2023-08-15 (7286dd11)
  remove data.py since BP5 data file has no format
  format
  bp5dbg parse records and check sizes during it for mmd.0 and md.0. No decoding FFS records.
  cmake: correct info.h installation path
  ...

* release_29: (29 commits)
  Bump version to v2.9.2
  ci: update number of task for mpich build
  clang-format: Correct format to old style
  Merge pull request #3878 from anagainaru/test-null-blocks
  Merge pull request #3588 from vicentebolea/fix-mpi-dp
  bp5: make RecMap an static anon namespaced var
  Replace LookupWriterRec's linear search on RecList with an unordered_map. For 250k variables, time goes from 21sec to ~1sec in WSL. The order of entries in RecList was not necessary for the serializer to work correctly. (#3877)
  Fix data length calculation for hash (#3875)
  Merge pull request #3823 from eisenhauer/SstMemSel
  gha,ci: update checkout to v4
  Blosc2 USE ON: Fix Module Fallback
  cmake: correct prefer_shared_blosc behavior
  cmake: correct info.h installation path
  ci: disable MGARD static build
  operators: fix module library
  ci: add downloads readthedocs
  cmake: Add Blosc2 2.10.1 compatibility.
  Fix destdir install test (#3850)
  cmake: update minimum cmake to 3.12 (#3849)
  MPI: add timeout for conf test for MPI_DP (#3848)
  ...

* master: (126 commits)
  ReadMe.md: Mention 2.9.2 release
  Cleanup server output a bit (ornladios#3914)
  ci: set openmpi and openmp params
  Example using Kokkos buffers with SST
  Changes to MallocV to take into consideration the memory space of a variable
  Change install directory of Gray scott files again
  ci,crusher: increase supported num branches
  ci: add shellcheck coverage to source and testing
  Change install directory of Gray scott files
  Only rank 0 should print the initialization message in perfstub
  Defining and computing derived variables (ornladios#3816)
  Add Remote "-status" command to see if a server is running and where (ornladios#3911)
  examples,hip: use find_package(hip) once in proj
  Add Steps Tutorial
  Add Operators Tutorial
  Add Attributes Tutorial
  Add Variables Tutorial
  Add Hello World Tutorial
  Add Tutorials' Download and Build section
  Add Tutorials' Overview section
  Improve bpStepsWriteRead* examples
  Rename bpSZ to bpOperatorSZWriter
  Convert bpAttributeWriter to bpAttributeWriteRead
  Improve bpWriter/bpReader examples
  Close file after reading for hello-world.py
  Fix names of functions in engine
  Fix formatting warnings
  Add dataspaces.rst in the list of engines
  Add query.rst
  cmake: find threads package first
  docs: update new_release.md
  Bump version to v2.9.2
  ci: update number of task for mpich build
  clang-format: Correct format to old style
  Merge pull request ornladios#3878 from anagainaru/test-null-blocks
  Merge pull request ornladios#3588 from vicentebolea/fix-mpi-dp
  Adding tests for writing null blocks with and without compression
  bp5: make RecMap an static anon namespaced var
  Replace LookupWriterRec's linear search on RecList with an unordered_map. For 250k variables, time goes from 21sec to ~1sec in WSL. The order of entries in RecList was not necessary for the serializer to work correctly.
  Replace LookupWriterRec's linear search on RecList with an unordered_map. For 250k variables, time goes from 21sec to ~1sec in WSL. The order of entries in RecList was not necessary for the serializer to work correctly. (ornladios#3877)
  Fix data length calculation for hash (ornladios#3875)
  Merge pull request ornladios#3823 from eisenhauer/SstMemSel
  Merge pull request ornladios#3805 from pnorbert/fix-bpls-string-scalar
  Merge pull request ornladios#3804 from pnorbert/fix-aws-version
  Merge pull request ornladios#3759 from pnorbert/bp5dbg-metadata
  new attempt to commit query support of local array. (ornladios#3868)
  MPI::MPI_Fortran should be INTERFACE not PUBLIC
  Fix hip example compilation error (ornladios#3865)
  Server Improvements (ornladios#3862)
  ascent,ci: remove unshallow flag
  Remove Slack as a contact mechanism (ornladios#3866)
  bug fix:  syntax error in json  output (ornladios#3857)
  Update the bpWriterReadHip example's cmake to run on crusher
  Examples: Use BPFile instead of BP3/4/5 for future-proof
  inlineMWE example: Close files at the end
  Examples: Add BeginStep/EndStep wherever it was missing
  BP5Serializer: handle local variables that use operators (ornladios#3859)
  gha,ci: update checkout to v4
  Blosc2 USE ON: Fix Module Fallback
  cmake: correct prefer_shared_blosc behavior
  cmake: correct info.h installation path
  ci: disable MGARD static build
  operators: fix module library
  ci: add downloads readthedocs
  cmake: Add Blosc2 2.10.1 compatibility.
  Blosc2 USE ON: Fix Module Fallback (ornladios#3774)
  Fix destdir install test (ornladios#3850)
  cmake: update minimum cmake to 3.12 (ornladios#3849)
  MPI: add timeout for conf test for MPI_DP (ornladios#3848)
  MPI_DP: do not call MPI_Init (ornladios#3847)
  install: export adios2 device variables (ornladios#3819)
  Merge pull request ornladios#3799 from vicentebolea/support-new-yaml-cpp
  Merge pull request ornladios#3737 from vicentebolea/fix-evpath-plugins-path
  SST,MPI,DP: soft handle peer error
  SST,MPI,DP: improve uniq identifier
  Fix destdir install test (ornladios#3850)
  cmake: include ctest before detectoptions
  ci: enable tau check
  Add/Improve the ReadMe.md files in examples directory
  Disable BUILD_TESTING and ADIOS2_BUILD_EXAMPLES by default
  Remove testing based on ADIOS2-examples
  Fix formatting issue in DetectOptions.cmake
  Add examples from ADIOS2-Examples
  Improve existing examples
  MPI_DP: do not call MPI_Init (ornladios#3847)
  cmake: update minimum cmake to 3.12 (ornladios#3849)
  MPI: add timeout for conf test for MPI_DP (ornladios#3848)
  Tweak Remote class and test multi-threaded file remote access (ornladios#3834)
  Add prototype testing of remote functionality (ornladios#3830)
  Try always using the MPI version
  Try always using the MPI version
  Import tests from bp to staging common, implement memory selection in SST
  ci: fix codeql ignore path (ornladios#3772)
  install: export adios2 device variables (ornladios#3819)
  added support to query BP5 files (ornladios#3809)
  Partial FFS Upstream, only changes to type_id
  ffs 2023-09-19 (67e411c0)
  Fix abs/rel step in BP5 DoCount
  fix dummy Win build
  Pass Array Order of reader to remote server for proper Get() operation
  ...

* master:
  Update readme for heat transfer example with new location and build instructions
  Ignore tests with defects for now
  Adapt libfabric dataplane of SST to Cray CXI provider (ornladios#3672)
  ci: fix path to lsan suppressions, fix broken gh status post
  Use adios2_mode_readRandomAccess in matlab open to make it work for BP5 (ornladios#3956)
  Add Global Array Capabilities and Limitations
  Add Section for Anatomy of an ADIOS Program
  Enable Shell-Check for gh-actions scripts
  Enable Shell-Check for circle CI scripts
  Enable Shell-Check for tau contract scripts
  Enable Shell-Check for scorpio contract scripts
  Enable Shell-Check for lammps contract scripts
  Delete VTK code in examples
  Fix MATLAB bindings for MacOS (ornladios#3950)
  Set the compiler for the Kokkos DataMan example to what is used to build Kokkos
  Fix the HIP architecture CMAKE variable (ornladios#3931)
  perfstubs 2023-11-27 (845d0702) (ornladios#3944)
  Revert "Only rank 0 should print the initialization message in perfstub"
  CI Contract: Build examples with external ADIOS
  Example using DataMan with Kokkos buffers
  Propagating the GPU logic inside the DataMan engine
  ci: Use mpich built with ch3:sock:tp for faster tests
  ReadMe.md: Mention 2.9.2 release
  Cleanup server output a bit (ornladios#3914)
  ci: set openmpi and openmp params
  Example using Kokkos buffers with SST
  Changes to MallocV to take into consideration the memory space of a variable
  Change install directory of Gray scott files again
  ci,crusher: increase supported num branches
  ci: add shellcheck coverage to source and testing
  Change install directory of Gray scott files
  Only rank 0 should print the initialization message in perfstub
  Defining and computing derived variables (ornladios#3816)
  Add Remote "-status" command to see if a server is running and where (ornladios#3911)
  examples,hip: use find_package(hip) once in proj
  Add Steps Tutorial
  Add Operators Tutorial
  Add Attributes Tutorial
  Add Variables Tutorial
  Add Hello World Tutorial
  Add Tutorials' Download and Build section
  Add Tutorials' Overview section
  Improve bpStepsWriteRead* examples
  Rename bpSZ to bpOperatorSZWriter
  Convert bpAttributeWriter to bpAttributeWriteRead
  Improve bpWriter/bpReader examples
  Close file after reading for hello-world.py
  Fix names of functions in engine
  Fix formatting warnings
  Add dataspaces.rst in the list of engines
  Add query.rst
  cmake: find threads package first
  docs: update new_release.md
  Bump version to v2.9.2
  ci: update number of task for mpich build
  clang-format: Correct format to old style
  Merge pull request ornladios#3878 from anagainaru/test-null-blocks
  Merge pull request ornladios#3588 from vicentebolea/fix-mpi-dp
  bp5: make RecMap an static anon namespaced var
  Replace LookupWriterRec's linear search on RecList with an unordered_map. For 250k variables, time goes from 21sec to ~1sec in WSL. The order of entries in RecList was not necessary for the serializer to work correctly. (ornladios#3877)
  Fix data length calculation for hash (ornladios#3875)
  Merge pull request ornladios#3823 from eisenhauer/SstMemSel
  gha,ci: update checkout to v4
  Blosc2 USE ON: Fix Module Fallback
  cmake: correct prefer_shared_blosc behavior
  cmake: correct info.h installation path
  ci: disable MGARD static build
  operators: fix module library
  ci: add downloads readthedocs
  cmake: Add Blosc2 2.10.1 compatibility.
  Fix destdir install test (ornladios#3850)
  cmake: update minimum cmake to 3.12 (ornladios#3849)
  MPI: add timeout for conf test for MPI_DP (ornladios#3848)
  MPI_DP: do not call MPI_Init (ornladios#3847)
  install: export adios2 device variables (ornladios#3819)
  Merge pull request ornladios#3799 from vicentebolea/support-new-yaml-cpp
  Merge pull request ornladios#3737 from vicentebolea/fix-evpath-plugins-path
  Partial FFS Upstream, only changes to type_id
  bpls -l  with scalar string variable: print the value (since min/max is empty). This changes the code for all types using Engine.Get() to get the value now.
  Set AWS version requirement to 1.10.15 and also turn it OFF by default as it is not a stable feature of ADIOS just yet.
  Fix local values block reading
  docs,ci: backport fixes for readthedocs