DOCGroup/ACE_TAO ACE+TAO-6_5_12

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Once again, thanks to the efforts of many developers, testers, and users, we are pleased to announce the micro release of ACE 6.5.12 and TAO 2.5.12 which is available from the usual download location under the heading "Latest Micro Release".

The Source Code zip/tar.gz provided by github do not contain the necessary MPC files, please do not download these!

Changes to ACE

• Fixed some C++11 warnings
• Fixed compile problem on AIX
• Removed c++0x and c++1y as GNU make variables, use c++11 and c++14 as alternatives
• Moved all CI builds to github actions
• Added ACE_GCC_NO_RETURN to fix fall through warnings
• Fix ACE_Thread_Manager::join memory leak and potential deadlock

Changes to TAO

• Removed usage of narrow_from_decl and narrow_from_scope from TAO_IDL, use dynamic_cast now that we have RTTI. Any user that has a custom backend should make the similar changes to their own TAO_IDL backend