Create the MET-11.1.0-beta2 release

[JohnHalleyGotway]

Describe the Task

Create the MET-11.1.0-beta2 development release. Remember to create a new discussion for testing the beta2 release, as we did for beta1 with dtcenter/METplus#2039.

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Should be created on 2/28/23.

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• METplus, MET, METdataio, METviewer, METexpress, METcalcpy, METplotpy
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[JohnHalleyGotway]

Reopening this issue on 4/28/23 since we're recreating this beta2 release to include one more fix.

PR #2509 for issue #2285 caused unexpected differences in the METplus use cases. Issue #2525 fixes the underlying problem in MET. Recreating beta2 to include it.

[JohnHalleyGotway]

Merging PR #2529 for issue #2525 triggered this GHA run in METplus. One difference is flagged in a short-range use case test:

ERROR: Some differences were found
NetCDF diff
A:/data/truth/short_range/GenEnsProd_fcstHRRR_fcstOnly_SurrogateSevere/short_range/surrogate_severe_calc/surrogate_severe_20200205_036V_regrid.nc
B:/data/output/short_range/GenEnsProd_fcstHRRR_fcstOnly_SurrogateSevere/short_range/surrogate_severe_calc/surrogate_severe_20200205_036V_regrid.nc

I expect @georgemccabe to confirm that this Gen-Ens-Prod difference is a known issue unrelated to these python changes, and that we can proceed with re-creating the MET-11.1.0-beta2 release.

[JohnHalleyGotway]

Re-created 11.1.0-beta2 release on 4/28/23.

[JohnHalleyGotway]

Re-creating the 11.1.0-beta2 release AGAIN on 5/5/23 to include the fix for issue #2531 which was preventing it from compiling on Hera.