Changelog 1.6

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Build Changes:

• Require Kokkos 4.1.00 #973

New features:

• Introduce new API for ArborX indexes (EXPERIMENTAL) #970, #1017
• Add Moving Least Squares (MLS) interpolation (EXPERIMENTAL) #946, #992, #1000

Enhancements:

• Introduce PairValueIndex and Experimental::attach_indices #969, #1016, #1036
• Improve the simple intersection example #1008
• Improve the brute force example #1009
• Auto-fetch Google benchmark when not found locally #1039
• Allow default initialized distributed tree #1040
• Implement distance point-triangle #1046
• Implement nearest query for BruteForce #1053
• Add helper functions to construct predicates #1038
• Add an example of a distributed tree k-nearest neighbors search #724
• Improve the triangle intersection example #936
• Add triangulated surface distance benchmark #1052

Backward incompatible changes:

Deprecations:

• Deprecate min, max, minMax #998
• Deprecate iota, exclusivePrefixSum, accumulate, adjacentDifference #999

Fixed bugs:

• Fixed CUDA build warning #1010
• Fixed HIP build with ROCm 6 #1030
• Fixed FDBSCAN-DenseBox issue with user provided AccessTraits #1045
• Fixed stream destruction order in CUDA access traits example and execution spaces benchmark #1050