Draft release notes for 4.2.2

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draft release notes 4.2.2

git checkout latest
git pull
git log --oneline v4.2.1..latest

4.2.2 release notes

Major new features:

• added functionality to recover original k-mers given hashes - sourmash sig kmers et al. ([MRG] Produce list of hashes from a sequence #1653, [MRG] add MinHash.kmers_and_hashes(...) and sourmash sig kmers #1695, [MRG] 🐛 fix Rust panic in MinHash.seq_to_hashes #1701)

Documentation updates:

• Updated picklist docs ([MRG] update picklist docs #1683)
• Updated the 'how to release' doc after 4.2.0 release ([MRG] update the 'how to release' doc after 4.2.0 release #1649)

Minor new features:

• Adjusted dayhoff and hp encodings to tolerate stop codons in the protein sequence ([MRG] adjust dayhoff and hp encodings to tolerate stop codons in the protein sequence #1673)

Bug fixes and performance improvements:

• Fixed panic bug in sourmash sketch dna with bad input and --check-sequence ([MRG] Fix panic bug in sourmash sketch dna with bad input and --check-sequence #1702)

Refactoring and cleanup:

• Changed sourmash compute to sourmash sketch in tests/test_sourmash.py ([MRG] Changing sourmash compute to sourmash sketch in tests/test_sourmash.py #1680, [MRG] update a tricky test to use sourmash sketch instead of compute #1687)
• Tested and fixed sourmash_args.load_many_signatures(...) and lca_db.load_single_database ([MRG] test and fix sourmash_args.load_many_signatures(...) and lca_db.load_single_database #1684)

[mr-eyes]

I think seq_to_hashes was never introduced in a release before mentioning its bug fixes.