8.1 release

[Joseph Parker]

The utils RC for GS2 8.1 is PR #79.

PRs to do:

• PR96 tests for summation module

Finished PRs:

• PR80 Add utils CI
• PR70 Fix some warnings
• PR77 Track spline validity
• PR59 Add basic CMake file to enable pFUnit tests
• PR57 add netlib support
• ~20 other PRs - see CHANGELOG in PR79 for details
• PR12 Enable testing of logic than depends on MPI proc0

Key:

merged into 8.1-RC

will be included, but not yet merged

may be included, perhaps require more work/refactoring

delayed until later release

[David Dickinson]

8.1 was released.