Accumulator logic for MAX_DATA updates (microsoft#2553) (microsoft#2555)

Co-authored-by: Matt Olson <[email protected]>

Remove VN gtest suite (microsoft#2435) (microsoft#2436)

Otherwise we get a warning, that will potentially fail windows builds

v1.9 Release Notes (microsoft#2087)

Fix Package Distribution (microsoft#2024)

Fix Package Distribution (microsoft#2023)

Release Notes for v1.8 (microsoft#1977)

Release 1.7 Docs (microsoft#1913)

Release 1.6 Docs (microsoft#1857)

Update readme for changes made since notes for v1.5.0 were originally…

… made (microsoft#1846)

Release Notes for v1.4 (microsoft#1676)