Release v1.2.4.6 (#4271)

Changelog:
- Remove stale XFail. (4270) [Fabian Ruffy]
- [P4Testgen] Introduce a new Protobuf backend which uses P4 PDPI instead of P4Runtime  (4221) [Fabian Ruffy]
- [P4Testgen]  Add struct and header expressions as a first-class expression to P4Testgen.  (4231) [Fabian Ruffy]
- P4tc Runtime issue fix (4263) [Komal Jain]
- Fix clang-tidy config file. (4253) [Fabian Ruffy]
- More code improvements based on static analysis (4258) [Vladimír Štill]
- [P4Testgen] Flatten the genEq function and support struct expressions. (4225) [Fabian Ruffy]
- [P4Testgen] Add a compiler pass to resolve Type_Name in StructExpressions. (4215) [Fabian Ruffy]
- Rename TF to TestFramework (4247) [Fabian Ruffy]
- [P4Testgen] Generate NoMatch for selects without default (4250) [Vladimír Štill]
- [P4Testgen] Fix argument names in GenericDescription trace event (4257) [Vladimír Štill]
- [P4Testgen] Add --assert-min-coverage option to check coverage of generated test cases (4251) [Vladimír Štill]
- [P4Testgen] Change crash message (4252) [Piotr Sawicki]
- Added range check of error codes (4249) [Denis Matousek]
- Fixed ebpf_packetOffsetInBits field in parser and control_block C file (4233) [Komal Jain]
- Ensure accurate typing for functions that work with references. (4223) [Fabian Ruffy]
- Allow non-cast checkedTo cast. (4243) [Fabian Ruffy]
- Allow custom usage in backends (4244) [Jiri Havranek]
- Fix some problems and suggestions found by clang-tidy (4237) [Vladimír Štill]
- [P4Testgen] Add EliminateInvalidHeaders midend pass (4239) [Vladimír Štill]
- Report offending node in the type-checker immutability check (4238) [Vladimír Štill]
- Allow method calls in index expressions in hsIndexSimplify (4240) [Vladimír Štill]
- Simplify jsonAssignment in ParserConverter and ActionConverter (4232) [Antonin Bas]
- Fix build for latest Fedora version (4241) [Antonin Bas]
- Disable DPDK PTF tests. Remove the deprecated travis.yml file. (4228) [Fabian Ruffy]
- improved bootstrap.sh. (4227) [Chris Dodd]
- [P4Testgen] Move common code of BMv2 test back ends into a common class. (4220) [Fabian Ruffy]
- Flatten nesting of test backends and rename the folder appropriately. (4219) [Fabian Ruffy]
- noconstructor should also include the json loader constructor (4216) [Fabian Ruffy]
- Fix some issues found by static analysis (4213) [Vladimír Štill]
- Ignore flaky test in P4Testgen eBPF back end. (4224) [Fabian Ruffy]
- Still parse STF files, even when BMv2 model is not present in system. (4222) [Fabian Ruffy]

Co-authored-by: rst0git <[email protected]>

Version.txt

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-1.2.4.5
+1.2.4.6