Merge pull request #1212 from Unidata/v1.6.2rel

prepare for v1.6.2 release

Author: Jeff Whitaker

Changelog

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- version 1.6.2 (not yet released)
+ version 1.6.2 (tag v1.6.2rel)
 ==============================
  * Added ``netCDF4.__has_set_alignment__`` property to help identify if the
    underlying netcdf4 supports setting the HDF5 alignment.

README.md

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 ## News
 For details on the latest updates, see the [Changelog](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf4-python/blob/master/Changelog).
 
+11/15/2022:  Version [1.6.2](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/netCDF4/1.6.2) released. Fix for
+compilation with netcdf-c < 4.9.0 (issue [#1209](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf4-python/issues/1209)).  
+Slicing multi-dimensional variables with an all False boolean index array
+now returns an empty numpy array (instead of raising an exception - issue [#1197](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf4-python/issues/1197)).
+
 09/18/2022:  Version [1.6.1](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/netCDF4/1.6.1) released.  GIL now
 released for all C lib calls, `set_alignment` and `get_alignment` module functions
 added to modify/retrieve HDF5 data alignment properties. Added `Dataset` methods to