Impose a minimum hdf5 API version of 1.8 to handle all our compression schemes

When using hdf5 1.14.4 or newer, disable the library's checks of the types' size as they conflict with some of our compression filters

Ref: https://docs.hdfgroup.org/hdf5/v1_14/group___f_a_p_l.html#gafa8e677af3200e155e9208522f8e05c0