v4.5.2 Release Candidate 1

Release v4.5.1

LDMS release v4.4.6

LDMS Version v4.5.1 Release Candidate 2

This is release candidate 1 for version 4.5.1

This is the release v4.4.5 tag

New Features:
* Support YAML configuration
** Start ldmsd with -y <path to YAML config file>, man ldmsd_yaml_parser
* Introduce Peer Daemon Advertisement, man ldmsd_peer_daemon_advertisement
* Allow users to disable LDMSD Streams communication via stream_disable

Compatability:
* Characters now disallowed in set names
** control characters, double quotes, single quotes, backslash
* Deprecate the -t command-line option
* Allow LDMSD to continue startup on producer’s hostname resolution failure
* Make prdcr_status report producer type
* Add Cython 3 support (still support Cython 0.29)

Bug fixes:
* Deadlock/race conditions in LDMS
* Decomposition
** Fix ‘fill’ value handling in decomposition
** Fix the handling of lists of primitive value types
** Make LDMSD cleanup rowcache after a configurable timeout
* Fix libfabric build option

Documentation:
* Expand decomposition man page
* Add documentation for the LDMS_DELETE_TIMEOUT environment variable
* Update netlink-notifier documentation
* Add the stats command documentation in ldmsd_controller and its man page

Release OVIS-4.4.4

* Decomposition fixes
* Fix a leak in store_sos.c
* Workaround for GitHub workflow dropping CentOS7 support
* Make ldmsd_controller exit on connection error
* Update kokkos_appmon.c to not pad extra characters to node / name
* Add 'reconnect' to prdcr_start* to deprecate 'interval'
* Make LDMSD support interval strings
* Add 'reconnect' in prdcr_add to deprecate 'interval'
* Refector JSON parsing to use libjansson
* Support for operators in storage decomposition
* A port of `json_stream_sampler` from OVIS-4
* Add lsf/slurm to linux_proc_sampler.job test and fix nits in format 3
* Add format 3 for better commonality across start/end & resource managers.
* Add rollover to blob_stream_writer in b4.4

This is Release 4.4.3

It includes the following features and fixes to 4.4.2:

- Features
  - Updates to the Darshan Store fields
  - Updates to the heartbeat sampler
  - Updates to the store_avro_kafka store
  - Updates to the rdc_sampler
  - Updates to the slingshot sampler

- Fixes
  - Decomposition fixes
  - Always generate and push store_avro_kafka schema to registry
  - Fix error path memory leaks in store_avro_kafka
  - Clarify dependencies in README.md
  - Fix crash in linux_proc_sampler

This is release OVIS-4.4.2

The principal improvements in this release are as follows:

- Enhancements needed for production convenience
- New slingshot switch samplers designed to run on the slingshot switch
- Config changes in support of slingshot_metrics
- Fix mis-sizing of string in jbuf implementation
- Invalidate RDMA memory descriptors on set delete
- Remove memory leaks in the as_is decomp plugin
- Fix segfault caused by attempting to flush syslog
- Fix handling of DCGM string fields
- Fix `zap_sock` rejected endpoint leak

OVIS Release 4.4.1