Field allocation for SSI capability

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -11,6 +11,11 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ### Changed
 
+- Updated ESMF required version to 8.6.0
+- Allocate gridded fields to use the pinflag option needed for the Single System Image  (SSI) capability.
+- Made changes to allocate fields to use farray instead of farrayPtr. This allows explicit specification of indexflag required by the new MAPL field split functionality. This functionality allows a clean way to create a new field from an exiting field where the new field is a 'slice' of the existing field with the slicing index being that of the trailing ungiridded dim of the existing field.
+- Replaced RC=STATUS plus `_VERIFY(RC)` in `Base_Base_implementation.F90` with just `_RC` in line with our new convention.
+
 ### Fixed
 
 ### Removed

CMakeLists.txt

@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ if (NOT Baselibs_FOUND)
   endif()
 
   if (NOT TARGET esmf)
-    find_package(ESMF 8.5.0 MODULE REQUIRED)
+    find_package(ESMF 8.6.0 MODULE REQUIRED)
 
     # ESMF as used in MAPL requires MPI
     # NOTE: This looks odd because some versions of FindESMF.cmake out in the
@@ -167,8 +167,8 @@ else ()
   # This is an ESMF version test when using Baselibs which doesn't use the
   # same find_package internally in ESMA_cmake as used above (with a version
   # number) so this lets us at least trap use of old Baselibs here.
-  if (ESMF_VERSION VERSION_LESS 8.5.0)
-    message(FATAL_ERROR "ESMF must be at least 8.5.0")
+  if (ESMF_VERSION VERSION_LESS 8.6.0)
+    message(FATAL_ERROR "ESMF must be at least 8.6.0")
   endif ()
 endif ()