Release v1.2.4.8 (#4386)

Changelog:
- Tweak optional CI run execution. (4380) [Fabian Ruffy]
- Remove unused parser declarations and unused parser type declarations that result from  pass. (4368) [Kyle Cripps]
- Remove redundant protobuf installation. (4379) [Fabian Ruffy]
- Remove XDP code generated for TC (4349) [vbnogueira]
- Use std::allocator_traits::rebind_alloc instead of std::allocator::rebind (4373) [Vladimír Štill]
- Support ebpf Hash and Checksum (4378) [Komal Jain]
- P4TC - Support const entries (4329) [Komal Jain]
- Fixes for MacOS/macports. (4375) [Chris Dodd]
- Fix compiler stdin. (4367) [Fabian Ruffy]
- Add missing equiv implementation to Type_Any. (4336) [Fabian Ruffy]
- Remove options from gtest binary. (4334) [Fabian Ruffy]
- Provide hints on how to fix CI complaints. (4355) [Fabian Ruffy]
- Improve diagnostics for AssignmentStatement (4360) [Kyle Cripps]
- Improve diagnostics for  (4358) [Kyle Cripps]
- Improve diagnostics for  (4357) [Kyle Cripps]
- [P4Testgen] Introduce a compiler target for P4Testgen. Move computation from the ProgramInfo to the midend. (4292) [Fabian Ruffy]
-  Deprecate .txt, support in favour of .txtpb.  (4352) [Fabian Ruffy]
- [P4Testgen] Introduce the option to produce lowercase hex for the formatting library. (4340) [fruffy-g]
- Trigger CI workflows based on assigned label. (4348) [Fabian Ruffy]
- Emit the Protobuf header with the P4 entries and runtime files. (4350) [Fabian Ruffy]
- DoConstantFolding: make typeMap param const (4346) [Glen Gibb]
- Repair the static DPDK PTF tests. (4210) [Fabian Ruffy]
- Documentation & testfix follow-up to 4160 (4328) [Thomas Calvert]
- cstring: Add string literal suffix, add toLower (4342) [Vladimír Štill]
- Allow unknown fields when parsing P4Info files (4341) [Andy Fingerhut]
- Convert deparser header to 'inout' and address casting for functions with control block parameters  (4338) [Komal Jain]
- Step 2: Refactor ProgramInfo to be initialized with CompilerResult instead of a IR::P4Program. (4324) [Fabian Ruffy]
- Ignore clang-tidy complaints about macro do-while loops. (4332) [Fabian Ruffy]
- Fix build with system Protobuf (4321) [jkhsjdhjs]
- [P4Testgen] Extend the CompilerTarget runProgram function with data structures which can pass on more information. (4323) [Fabian Ruffy]
- Update status badges (4330) [fruffy-g]
- Allow constant-folding of arbitrary-precision integer casts (4325) [Vladimír Štill]
- Rename --with-output-packet to --output-packet-only. (4314) [fruffy-g]
- Make sure P4 expression optimization does not strip away types (4300) [Vladimír Štill]
- Respect ENABLE_LTO even for static build, but keep LTO default for static (4320) [Vladimír Štill]
- Allow constructing PassRepeated from a PassManager (4319) [Vladimír Štill]
- keep P4Control->body->srcInfo during init move (4317) [Glen Gibb]
- [P4Testgen] Implement coverage tracking of actions (4307) [Vladimír Štill]

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Version.txt

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-1.2.4.7
+1.2.4.8