0.9.0 Release Highlights

(adapted from Ascent's Changelog )

Added support for HIP and running on AMD GPUs
Added RAJA expressions infrastructure
Added pipeline partition transform from Conduit Blueprint
Added extract flatten from Conduit Blueprint
Added Log base 10 filter. Filter type is log10
Added Log base 2 filter. Filter type is log2
Added Feature Map in the docs. Detailing Devil Ray and VTKh features
Added scripts/build_ascent/build_ascent.sh a script that demonstrates how to manually build Ascent and its main dependencies
Added ability to override dimensions for the rendered bounding box around a dataset
Added CMake option ENABLE_HIDDEN_VISIBILITY (default=ON), which controls if hidden visibility is used for private symbols
Added documentation for how to use ROCm's rocprof profiler for GPUs with Ascent
Added support for Caliper performance annotations
Added automatic slice filter that evaluates a number of slices and outputs the one with the highest entropy

The Great Amalgamation - The VTK-h, Devil Ray, and AP Compositor projects are now developed in Ascent's source instead of separate repos. These external repos for these projects are archived. This reorg simplifies the development and support of these tightly coupled capabilities. Ascent 0.9.0 will be the first release using these internal versions.
apcomp, dray, flow, rover, and vtkh are now developed in src/libs.
Updated to VTK-m 1.9
Update docs related to building Ascent.
Updated to BLT v0.5.2

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