Add the VOLTAGE_PROCESS mechanism kind to modcc, allowing for direct writing to the membrane voltage
Obviously these are extremely sharp tools and can break the cable model, so we add some constraints to their
use (see docs). Still, user discretion is required.

As a sneak peek for what this might be useful for

* implementing voltage clamps
* limiting membrane voltage (irritatingly also a kind of clamping)
* faking ABSTRACT_CELL like behaviour (although that might require a bit more work)

Closes #1343

Throw an informative error instead of `bad_optional_access` when we do not find a global or cell default for an ion's diffusivity.

Added common math functions which I came across in the wild quite frequently. Implementations may be more optimized than hand-rolled versions.

- sqrt: usual square root
- step_right: right-continuous heaviside step function
- step_left: left-continuous heaviside step function
- step: heaviside step function with half step at 0
- signum: sign bit function
- extended iexpr with the step_left, step_right variants

fix ornstein_uhlenbeck example on gpu:
- use make_catalogue instead of make_catalogue_standalone
- link to arbor-private-deps
- mark all files as c++ sources when using cuda-clang or hip-clang

- Correct `.gitmodules`
- Update all git submodules to latest released versions, except google-benchmark
- Have CHANGELOG
- Breaking changes since v0.7:
  - A change in API: `arbor.cable_cell` has the labels and decor arguments swapped. I.e.: `(tree, labels, decor)`
-> `(tree, decor, label)`. Labels are now optional.
  - Mechanism ABI version is bumped to 0.3.1. https://github.com/arbor-sim/arbor/pull/1884
  - Remove the `generate-catalogue` script.  `modcc` accepts now a list of NMODL files and is able to spit out a catalogue.cpp file
  - Rename spike detector -> threshold detector
  - Remove access to time `t` in NMODL.
- Major dependency version bumps:
  - GCC: 9 and up
  - CUDA: 11 and up
  - Clang: 10 and up

Addresses #1987

* reproducibility test for random number generator
* C++ example demonstrating Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process
* Python example featuring stochastic mechanism
* stochastic mechanism catalogue

The Python example is contributed by Jannik Luboeinski's (@jlubo): https://github.com/jlubo/arbor_ou_lif_example
and adapted to fit into Arbor.

* fix compiler warnings

* fix some more warnings

Co-authored-by: Brent Huisman <brenthuisman@users.noreply.github.com>

- Add (again) a reset voltage E_R that for V_m = E_R in the refractory period.
- Make V_m decay towards resting potential E_L instead of 0.
- Adjust docs and tests accordingly.
- Double check this against literature.
- Explain weight, add C++ API.

* Added fixture dev docs. Made fixtures more robust.

Co-authored-by: Brent Huisman <brenthuisman@users.noreply.github.com>

* Functionality
  * Add probes to LIF cells.
* Docs
  * Remove errorneous statement(s) about LIF cells (there never was an E_reset...)
  * Move probing chapter one level up (concepts/cable_cells -> concepts)
* Tests
  * Add tests for LIF probes

Closes #1861 
Closes #1783 

- arbor-build-catalogue (a-b-c) does no longer need to be in a fixed location
- nor do we statically fix the configuration for a-b-c
- instead, we rely on `arbor.config` to read the relevant default values
- each value can be overriden, if desired
- added many more values to the configuration
  - gpu type and arch
  - paths and prefix 
  - CXX
- report default settings for better diagnosis
- implement a fallback for prefix if that does not exist; in particular for the amazing skbuild.

In essence you can now use a-b-c as a standalone tool, as long as you have a properly 
configured py-arbor.

Example output after removing `_skbuild`
```
Warning: prefix '/Users/hater/src/arbor/_skbuild/macosx-11.0-x86_64-3.10/cmake-install' does not exist, falling back to '/Users/hater/src/arbor/.direnv/python-3.10.6'.
usage: arbor-build-catalogue catalogue_name mod_source_dir

Generate dynamic catalogue and build it into ...

* build for py311
* update dependencies.csv

- Use ninja instead of make.
- Use ccache with a per-config cache key.

* Support for exporting models with parameters optimized in BluePyOpt to a mixed JSON/ACC-format that can be loaded in Arbor (with faithful axon-replacement modelling)
* A tutorial and examples on how to run simulations with such models including a neocortical layer-5 pyramidal cell exported from BluePyOpt
* Support for using Arbor as a backend for single cell optimization in BluePyOpt

Co-authored-by: Thorsten Hater <24411438+thorstenhater@users.noreply.github.com>

- GCC: goes up to 9 from 8, needed by CUDA 11
- CUDA: goes up to 11 from 10
- Clang: 10 up from 8

Closes #1815 

Add missing virtual destructors to some classes. Removes warnings and ensures correct behaviour.

- bump OpenMPI version in hope of fixing the intermittent memory corruption
- bump Ubuntu and clang versions in `sanitize.yml` workflow.

* Use HTTPS access instead of ssh/git for gtest.

* Make decor mandatory and labels optional.
* Sort morphology, decor, labels
* No more optional decor.

Fix clash betwenn Ninja build and CMake external_project

- Bump CI actions to latest (cache, checkout, cmake)
- Bump mimimal compiler versions
- Bump minimal test OS to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- gtest as submodule (version 1.12.1)
- fixes heap corruptions
- update gtest macros, include paths

Co-authored-by: Thorsten Hater <24411438+thorstenhater@users.noreply.github.com>

* Discuss q10 pattern in NMODL docs.

Adds the Heaviside step function to Arbor's iexpr

Co-authored-by: boeschf <48126478+boeschf@users.noreply.github.com>

1. Fix Python bindings for `recipe::update`
   - *drop* the GIL before handing off to C++
   - tighten exception safety
2. Run plasticity examples with threads; both C++ and Python.
   - C++: Guard against I/O interleaving.
   - Py: Drop spikes from source, prettify reporting.
   - C++: use decor chaining.
3. Modernise PYBIND11_OVERLOAD -> *RIDE (advised since 2.6).
4. No longer do we initialise connectivity twice.
   - Simplify communicator construction.
   - Fix unit tests that needed to two-phase init communicator.

Inline NMODL `PROCEDURE`s into their callers.

Main changes
- uncorrelated and independently distributed white noise generation for point and density mechanisms
- enabled by extending nmodl dialect and adjusting modcc (WHITE_NOISE block, stochastic solver method)
- SDEs are solved by Euler-Maruyama method (synapse collapsing disabled in this case)
- CPU and GPU backends responsible for creating random numbers using random123
- simulation takes a seed value
- bumped ABI due to addition of random numbers in ppack
Incidental changes
- builder pattern for simulation
- pimpl idiom supported by util classes

* remove storage of RHS and face-conductance in solvers
* elide copy RHS->U and RHS->Xd respectively
  -> solve will now directly mangly U and Xd
* fix tests accordingly
* Introduce wrapper macro for __restrict__ to Isolate against compiler specifics.

use std variants of sqrt and move (removes warnings, and is safer)

Fix a typo preventing the generation of GPU mechs.

* Add pybind11 version to config.
* Add version check for PB11.
* Bump CMake a tiny bit.