LArSoft v10_21_02 Release Notes

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Purpose

approved PRs
use latest ifdhc

New features

LArSoft/larsim#168
- Update mpv to include the pdune beams
- Adds a configurable beam mode to the MultiPartVertex generator where particles are placed on the surface of an upstream hemisphere rather than uniformly within the TPC volume specifically designed for PDVD, PDSP, and PDHD.
- What changed
  - BeamMode: when true, start positions are sampled uniformly on a hemisphere of radius BeamRadius centred on
  - BeamEntrance, with the flat face flush with the detector entrance plane
  - BeamInwardDirection: unit vector pointing into the detector, defines hemisphere orientation (default [0,0,1] for PDVD)
  - BeamTargetRadius: particles are aimed at a random point within a disk of this radius around BeamEntrance, simulating a finite beam spot. Set to 0 to aim at the exact entrance point
- New fcl parameters

BeamMode:            true
BeamEntrance:        [94.8, 142.6, 0.7]  
BeamRadius:          15.0                
BeamTargetRadius:    0.0                
BeamInwardDirection: [0.0, 0.0, 1.0]

Adding beam mode generator display (BeamMode: true) and standard isotropic display (BeamMode: false) for comparison --> 20 events

Bug fixes

LArSoft/larfinder#5
- Fix dependency order and add additional path hint
- This fixes an error when finding tensorflow with Spack.
LArSoft/larsimdnn#18
- Changes applied in Spack package build process that need to be made for use with spack mpd
- Also changes to Tensorflow includes that were deprecated in 2.15 and removed in 2.17.
LArSoft/larrecodnn#63
- Changes applied in Spack package build process that need to be made for use with spack mpd
- Also changes to Tensorflow includes that were deprecated in 2.15 and removed in 2.17.