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Signed-off-by: Joe Runde <Joseph.Runde@ibm.com>

Removing the block manager v1. This is the initial piece of prefix-caching-centric design. In order to achieve prefix-caching-centric design, we need to simplify the code path so that we only use v2 block manager (which has much higher performance on prefix caching).

Co-authored-by: Varun Sundar Rabindranath <varun@neuralmagic.com>
Co-authored-by: Michael Goin <michael@neuralmagic.com>

Signed-off-by: Wallas Santos <wallashss@ibm.com>

Co-authored-by: Brendan Wong <bjwpokemon@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Alex-Brooks <Alex.Brooks@ibm.com>

Co-authored-by: Roger Wang <136131678+ywang96@users.noreply.github.com>

Co-authored-by: Ashraf Mahgoub <ashymahg@amazon.com>

Co-authored-by: Varun Sundar Rabindranath <varun@neuralmagic.com>

Co-authored-by: Roger Wang <ywang@roblox.com>

Co-authored-by: Varun Sundar Rabindranath <varun@neuralmagic.com>

Co-authored-by: simon-mo <xmo@berkeley.edu>
Co-authored-by: Chang Su <chang.s.su@oracle.com>
Co-authored-by: Simon Mo <simon.mo@hey.com>
Co-authored-by: Roger Wang <136131678+ywang96@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Roger Wang <ywang@roblox.com>

[Bugfix] [Encoder-Decoder] Bugfix for encoder specific metadata construction during decode of encoder-decoder models.  (#8545)