chore(master): Release 1.4.0

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1.4.0 (2026-09-24)

Features

• Add basic tcp connection to socket node type (5df3fab)
• Add grid2op-timeseries-converter script for chronics file generation (df1fbae)
• add lab20.conf for socket TCP (54e4c82)
• add platform card (b4c42a7)
• Add Platform option to utils (e0f975e)
• add PlatformInterruptController class (d754342)
• Add TCP to the OpenAPI spec of socket node type (b23c12a)
• add Zynq IP (0da8812)
• api: Add a new metrics endpoint for exporting statistics to Prometheus (19b2cea)
• ci: Add a job which depends on everything (67e6c53)
• ci: Add Github Actions workflows (9703743)
• ci: Add new CI job for building & validating the OpenAPI spec (4993d73)
• ci: Auto-tag a new release on successful master builds (9cae582)
• ci: Build RPM bundles and improve CI pipeline (6dfa55c)
• ci: Enable push mirroring to RWTH GiutLab (fc1b22a)
• ci: Run pre-commit as CI job (cc52c76)
• clangd: Add compilation database path to build dir (cf11c70)
• config: Add new helper function for parsing human readable durations (c6099d4)
• config: Allow JSON files with comments (ddc86cc)
• config: Validate configuration against JSON schema (8f7a594)
• connection to ip core memory (f19f28d)
• device connection (229e1ad)
• doc: Add CITATION.cff (8601b81)
• docker: Add new Dockerimage for Rocky Linux 10 (f0c26ea)
• editorconfig: Add yaml configuration (cb3aa96)
• Extended integration test for socket TCP connection (c07679b)
• gdb: Add gdbinit for nlohmann::json pretty printing (627543f)
• Introduce Sample::PtrUnique alias (a032da0)
• make cast hook support writes (ed6cd78)
• nix: Add cache and start cross-building VILLASnode for aarch64-linux (1a7c132)
• nix: Add simple access to cross-compiled packages (1d56a5b)
• nix: Use gcc14Stdenv for devShell.default (f10bc15)
• node-opal-async: Add new node-type for running VILLASnode as an Asynchronous process in OPAL-RT's RT-LAB (e978a28)
• node-opal-orchestra: Add new OPAL-RT Orchestra node-type (95681df)
• node-opal-orchestra: Update PATH (50a557b)
• node-opendss: Add integration test (74a132c)
• node-opendss: Add OpenAPI spec to schema (1acbde5)
• node-opendss: Add OpenDSS node type (c111ca1)
• node-opendss: Package libopendssc for Nix (63b2185)
• node-orchestra: Add first version of OpenAPI spec of node-type configuration (6560889)
• node-orchestra: Use new parse_duration config helper for parsing duration (1e34b1e)
• node: Introduce json-schema-validator for bundled schemas (629844b)
• nodes: Add c37.118 node-type with WITH_NODE_C37_118 build option (b87d6b4)
• openapi: Make redocly configuration more strict (1bb89ea)
• paper: Add badge to README file (4bf0633)
• paper: Add OpenJournals GitHub workflow (6d958c2)
• parse interrupts on platform based systems (a4a5a5d)
• tools: Add shell script to install VILLASnode (0d0ae1b)
• vfio automask (abf8795)

Bug Fixes

• add copyright (d254e4c)
• Add error checking (7a2d689)
• Add missing new-line to signoff commit messages (3525085)
• Add option to seed random number generation (085a764)
• Add reconnect attempt after the connection is broken. (7befa75)
• added missing license information (e1355dc)
• api: Correct capabilities request file and description spelling (459822b)
• api: Remove duplicated 'with' in UUID error messages (6e8f92d)
• api: Restart temp config file needs a .json at the end for corret config selection (a169249)
• Attempt to build everything in GCC 14 (99cc8db)
• Broken error checking (c60ef75)
• can: Bound copy of interface name into ifr_name (0378d0f)
• change Dino ip name "dinoif_fast" to "dinoif_adc" (c76c623)
• change method of python api restart node request to POST instead of default GET (c9ba515)
• change tpc server from tcpbin.com to VILLASnode's tcp server (d6a6006)
• ci/arx: Use nix-community/nix-bundle instead of NixOS/bundlers (0ed61be)
• ci: Add version to Nix builds (6357645)
• ci: Disable VILLAS_COMPILE_WARNING_AS_ERROR for debian, ubuntu and rocky (30e764f)
• ci: Dont install dev tools in venv (e022bef)
• ci: Fix build badges in README (d7b17ee)
• ci: include build commands in var (fd49122)
• ci: Refactor Docker -> Container (bdf670f)
• ci: Refactor secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN to github.token context (2582ec7)
• ci: remove redundant build jobs (105d879)
• clang-format: Proper formatting for libjansson macros (e29e5c2)
• clang: Allow unkown warning options (9f1d892)
• cmake: Cleanup and add missing feature infos (309d4e7)
• cmake: Fix broken FindOpalOrchestra module (c162a6a)
• cmake: Remove GetVersion module and simplify overall CMake code (93cf834)
• cmake: Remove superfluous CMake variable (0d256a6)
• Comment format (6d27928)
• Comment format and naming (5587fbd)
• compat: Add drop-in std::filesystem header for older systems (c9902cb)
• config: Always allow integers where floats are allowed (ed648e3)
• config: Fix end-of-file (c9045c7)
• config: Fix regular expression handling in parse_duration (bbc951f)
• config: Fix string use-after-free (6b1da06)
• config: Make example config for stats hook more useful (741607c)
• container: Update links in container usage labels (e3e09ff)
• Correct 'snd' -> 'and' in file header comments (57bd605)
• Correct spelling in plugin descriptions and CLI help (57c7b2c)
• Correct spelling mistakes in infiniband node and ip_device (469451e)
• Correct spelling typos in comments and log messages (6694153)
• Correct usage of Node::check() (fa711b7)
• Correct various spelling mistakes in comments and messages (37747aa)
• cppcheck: Fix cppcheck performance warning (063f8b3)
• cppcheck: Fix various cppcheck warnings and portability issues (e7c6153)
• cppcheck: Replace string::find with string::starts_with (5606793)
• cppcheck: Suppress dangerous type cast warning (ba6bd7f)
• cpuset: Fix ambiguous C++20 operator== overload (4084afe)
• deps: Adjust linker search path for OpenDSS in deps.sh (47ebd07)
• deps: Downgrade nanomsg to v1.2.0 (ad86e95)
• deps: Fetch libxil from GitHub instead of old Gitlab repo (2d037d7)
• deps: Fix detection of git-svn (0bd7861)
• deps: Overhaul deps.sh script: (0f819de)
• deps: Update criterion installed by deps.sh (7c38ae6)
• devcontainer: Update location of Container image (f4b2edb)
• doc: Add JOSS paper als new main paper about VILLASnode (51f0562)
• doc: Add missing lab19 config (ee8423a)
• doc: Fix broken OpenAPI spec for opal.orchestra node-type (fc38caa)
• doc: Fix indentation and missing SPDX headers of lab19.conf (2140325)
• doc: Fix OpenAPI doc for opal.orchestra node-type (a354a7e)
• docker: Add workaround for local/lib libraries (a921bc6)
• docker: Fix captialization (58227a3)
• docker: Order package dependencies alphabetically (afe7011)
• docker: Proprely set linker search path for libOpenDSSC.so (8bc1fe2)
• docker: Remove ineffective statement (ae5aee4)
• docker: Update syntax of ENV instruction (7e409eb)
• doc: Remove broken link (f5953ef)
• doc: Remove superfluous trailing commas in example configs (94d82da)
• docs: Added missing settings for line-based formats (5166a93)
• docs: Tweak note about citations (b663a51)
• doc: Update description of VILLASnode's licensing (0bb9ca2)
• doc: Update example for pps_ts hook (019a669)
• dumper: Bound copy of socket path into sun_path (d3d8b02)
• examples: Correct spelling in redis and ngsi example comments (9ae85e0)
• examples: Remove obsolete example configurations for api node-type (00adfdd)
• examples: Use correct 'samples' option in skip_first example comment (787df6d)
• exceptions: Add missing override annotation (31c756c)
• file: Disambiguate duplicated in.epoch key in node details string (f69fb22)
• Fix compatability wioth GCC 8.3.0 (a05cec9)
• Fix cppcheck for new version (84df286)
• Fix libfmt string formatting errors (c0ed0e8)
• format-raw: Remove unnecessary exception (58bc131)
• format/json_kafka: Fix json_pack string parameter (9064feb)
• formatting: Improve json_pack readability (85281ef)
• fpga/intc: Make IrqVectorInfo initialization more explicit (59f17a2)
• fpga/rtds: Fix broken reinterpret_cast to virtual base class (5be0a06)
• fpga: improve error message when we we are unable to rewrite the BAR (ba70b1d)
• fpga: Replace type-punning pointer cast with std::bit_cast (77c9eff)
• git: Ignore uniform include style in git blame (95b7207)
• hook-decimate: Add missing initialization of renumber member (fd5a270)
• hook-frame: Fix broken digest hook integration test (2d73d5a)
• hook-frame: Rework framing hook to synchronize frame boundaries (aa9ee64)
• hook-limit_value: Fix memory corruption (f0b6da8)
• hook-pmu_dft: Fix configuration typos (d782154)
• hook-pmu: Allow explicit none window configuration (f83898a)
• hook/ipdft: Reintroduce virtual estimatePhasor function (21c87c8)
• hook/lua: Remove unused lua_tojson function (6c1f12b)
• hooks/lua: Fix forward declaration of SignalType (2435af5)
• hooks: Initialize optional 'mode' output in gate hook (f028397)
• hooks: Initialize optional json_unpack outputs in digest hook (93b7e98)
• hooks: Read correctly-spelled start/end_frequency in pmu_dft (1edf6fd)
• hooks: Use correct ConfigError ID in moving-average hook (f2f41f9)
• import card instead of platform card (e4dac01)
• improve compatiblity of villas::utils::Table with newer C++ standards (8bc146a)
• kernel: Mark ~Driver interface destructor as virtual (4686d23)
• lint: Format code with clang-format (16d7c59)
• lint: Remove trailing whitespace (33c3afe)
• linux: Reintroduce patch for struct groups (2bb445e)
• log: Use trace level for log output in hot-path (eea526d)
• lua: Correct SampleFlags bit-shift comments in test hook (23619b0)
• memory: Fix non-virtual destructor in polymorphic class (c480970)
• move member "doReset" from pcieCard to card parent (226354a)
• move task to villas namespace (9ba78f1)
• Naming and comment (7a2d689)
• nix: Add criterion dependency for testing (a0a0bc9)
• nix: Add some missing build inputs (cbf57bb)
• nix: Enable parallel building (34128e1)
• nix: Fix broken shebang for cross-compiled bundles (5955904)
• nix: Fix swapped variable (9db5f8b)
• nix: Only attempt to include EtherCAT support on x86_64 platforms (47de8a7)
• nix: Only build with orchestra on x86_64-linux (54d8fb3)
• nix: Remove deprecated usage of pkgs.system (6e972d4)
• nix: Remove nix-ld env vars which break dev shell with Lix (430c533)
• nix: Use common directory for all patches (2831c2f)
• node-example: Remove header for example node-type (46e893d)
• node-loopback: Fix use of undefined macro (aff6078)
• node-opal-async: Fix compilation errors (bec6af1)
• node-opal-orchestra: Add comment to global lock (49e2c29)
• node-opal-orchestra: Do not hide node-type (1aca74b)
• node-opal-orchestra: Fix include order (66d612a)
• node-opal-orchestra: Fix typo in example config (6a2151d)
• node-opal-orchestra: Fix whitespaces (f895c44)
• node-opal-orchestra: Improve readability (37f320f)
• node-opal-orchestra: Rename source files (deb4d13)
• node-opal-orchestra: Rework Item::upsertItem using std::string_view (56f4a6b)
• node-opal-orchestra: Rework Nix build (38dc435)
• node-opal-orchestra: Use shared pointers for DDF items (864c09d)
• node-opal-orchestra: Use snake_case for options (1e5861e)
• node-opal-orchestra: Use std::optional instead of negative value for absent indices (5da3ba5)
• node-opal-orchstra: Use our fs namespace for compatability with std::filesystem drop-in (4ec829d)
• node-opendss: Change current working directory back. (a08dcc9)
• node-opendss: Use patches instead of sed/cat (ed293c5)
• node-orchestra: Fix consteval error in RTError (b08d41a)
• node-webrtc: Enable TCP by default (f3b191d)
• node-webrtc: Improve debugging output (13d62e2)
• node: Remove enabled and initial_sequenceno from configuration (a617c14)
• nodes/fpga: Fix cppcheck warning (9f04289)
• nodes/iec61850_goose: Add checks that signals wanted in publisher exist (ce9b0bd)
• nodes/iec61850_goose: Add nullptr check when creating GOOSE publisher (98c5a96)
• nodes/iec61850_goose: Add whitespaces in check that signals wanted in publisher exist (4920d5d)
• nodes/iec61850_goose: Create publishers if only output section exists (e93347f)
• opal_orchestra: Remove <filesystem> include (1cf9be3)
• opal-async-param: Close header comment (0c430e8)
• opal/ddf: Fix non-virtual destructor in polymorphic class (e6d2588)
• openapi: Add enabled and correct port default in http schema (d48e590)
• openapi: Align zeromq and websocket schemas with parsed options (8144e9f)
• openapi: Fix OpenAPI docs of modbus node (cd105e1)
• openapi: Fix OpenAPI docs which caused out-of-memory errors in redoc (faa2ad4)
• openapi: Fix OpenAPI generation (90bc643)
• openapi: Use OpenAPI 3.1.1 with JSON Schema Draft 07 dialect (ca6d257)
• ordering od pci init (1f73ba3)
• packaging/deps: Use fixed pip version instead of latest (942740c)
• packaging: Fix repo location in Arch PKGBUILD file (2e98e32)
• packaging: Report correct parameter and fix typos in deps.sh (ad17535)
• packaging: Update outdated LABELs (b4e4b5c)
• paper: Add a paragraph highlighting which data exchange protocols are supported (3f7c80a)
• paper: address comments (8577618)
• paper: Address comments from Niklas (6d9bdcc)
• paper: Address nit comments from reviewers (83116a0)
• paper: Fix markdownlint errors (a3c93aa)
• paper: Fix REUSE exceptions (2f56aa2)
• paper: Fix viewbox of SVG figure (88b1650)
• paper: Harmonize style of affiliations (a0aec4b)
• paper: Mention energy/power system related use case (223dd6d)
• paper: Move JOSS paper into subdirectory (c9ec6e5)
• paper: Proposal for new author list (44fd98a)
• paper: Remove duplicate ERIGrid acknowledgement (ee376cb)
• paper: Rephrase paragraph about integration of external tools (8f75627)
• paper: Update date (7aa21da)
• paper: Use LaTeX mode for referencing symbols in figure (cd72b66)
• path: Add missing commas in json_pack format string (52eaf23)
• pps_ts: Cleanup code and make sure variables are initialized (5d24936)
• pre-commit: Update black-pre-commit-mirror to version 24.10.0 (2dc73ce)
• protobuf: Update auto-generated code (203fb99)
• protobuf: Use correct protobuf compiler (d648bfa)
• python: Assign stripped string in VillasHuman.loads() (677b36c)
• python: Avoid mutable default, init child, use self.config in Node (d694fcc)
• python: change isinstance int/bool order (01344f2)
• python: Fix mypy CI checks (545e4ba)
• python: Fix mypy error (3a45c59)
• python: Fix some pip/setuptools warnings in pyproject.toml (ae2532b)
• python: Fix whitespaces (1af30af)
• python: Only join started threads in communicate() (0a52116)
• redocly: Fix linter configuration (6f17e43)
• Remove duplicated 'the' in config example and OpenAPI descriptions (e0112b7)
• Remove GPL-2.0 licensed pcimem tool and related files (b1bcb16)
• Remove sleep from socket integration test (f28f802)
• Remove socket_tcp_connection from header file (7a2d689)
• Remove trailing commas (34d9ac1)
• remove unecessary } in format string in table.cpp (225e776)
• Remove wrong struct keyword from NodeCompatType (71ddcc7)
• rename "dinoif_fast" to "dinoif_adc" (07b199a)
• reuse: Add missing REUSE header to CITATION.cff (91ef3ed)
• reuse: Add missing SPDX headers (3f382a8)
• reuse: Remove unused license (d5e8e16)
• sample: Change ts compare to absolute compare (c483bf6)
• sample: Comparison of sample flags (c137b31)
• sample: Remove C compatability macros (dcecdf2)
• shmem-client: Show required RNAME argument in usage line (38a66d7)
• stats,table: Improve table rendering (3f70fe0)
• style: Apply uniform #include order to all files (8173931)
• style: Cosmetic updates in deps.sh (73c468b)
• style: Enforce uniform #include order (50771e5)
• style: Fix code formatting with clang-format (125786e)
• style: Fix whitespaces (d70c7da)
• style: Format code with clang-format (186e880)
• style: Harmonize comment-style (1665e48)
• style: Harmonize end-of-files (d85ad83)
• style: Harmonize JSON formatting (a39eba9)
• style: Harmonize Markdown style (84cd9fa)
• style: Indentation of commented code (28e2dba)
• style: Make comments start with uppercase letter in Nix files (03f03d4)
• style: Merge strings into same line (c1c9fc5)
• style: Python code-formatting with Black formatter (e909109)
• style: Reformat code with clang-format (637feb6)
• style: Remove trailing whitespaces (2cc0b17)
• style: Replace std::map by std::unordered map where possible (b532ad3)
• style: Run clang-format (8784479)
• style: Use move semantics to pass std::strings (d835b8b)
• style: Use override keyword in API requests (a16738d)
• style: Use override keyword in formats (a254790)
• style: Use override keyword in hooks (e757e90)
• style: Use override keyword in nodes (d48347b)
• super_node: Remove unused broken code (d2a612f)
• table: Avoid allocations (ab95e35)
• table: Improve table printing for ARM architecture (133574f)
• test_rtt: Correct inverted strcmp logic and max-mode in parseMode (1761f67)
• tests/config: Remove broken putenv call (7a489a0)
• tests/format: Use proper printf formatting specifiers for std::int64_t (1605e9f)
• tests/queue: Fix unintentional sleep(0) using usleep (5215a8f)
• tests/utils: Fix string use-after-free (b5ecbea)
• tests: Exclude opal.orchestra config from test-config (af39abb)
• tests: Fix indentation of test configs (1e0b3d4)
• tests: Fix invalid test and example configurations (de7c0ff)
• tests: Reap left-over children from integration tests (8e78de4)
• tests: use C locale for integration tests (0388e0e)
• tool: Catch std::exception instead of std::runtime_error (f6fba5d)
• tools: Add executable bit to all scripts (41852ba)
• tools: Correct comment typos, author email and whitelist in hwdef-parse.py (7f74351)
• tools: Correct several issues in tc-netem.sh (76e2ea7)
• tools: Correct spelling in integration-tests.sh output (d4f1a4a)
• tools: Fix artifact locations for villas-install script (81152f0)
• tools: Fix GitLab job name and error handling in standalone installer script (61fd72d)
• tools: Include .h headers in format-all.sh glob (263ea10)
• tools: Port villas-api.sh to the VILLASnode API v2 (b43f7d8)
• tools: Quote $@ in villas-helper.sh wrapper (cbe86ce)
• tools: Remove stray exits and fix debug output in tc-netem2.sh (3b938ec)
• tools: Return explicit success and fix exit code in pre-commit hook (6be05ae)
• treewide: Fix virtual/override annotations (a960050)
• Typo (fc78bca)
• typo: Fix typo in "frequency" (ba996ae)
• Uninitialize variable (d3cbf87)
• Use always en_US locale (aae084e)
• Use native PEP-420 namespace package (db372c7)
• utils: Handle vasprintf/realloc failure in vstrcatf (002ca90)
• vfio_device: Make IrqVectorInfo initialization more explicit (8851cb5)
• vfio_device: Remove unused pci_device pointer (ae1d7be)
• villas-graph: Pass correct type to gvRenderData (089d772)
• villas-pipe: Add missing closing quote in RuntimeError format string (2de2323)
• villas-pipe: Allocate at least 16 samples (f4538b2)
• villas-signal: Enable and document -p, -w, -L, -H options (28a36cb)
• villas-test-config: Parse advertised -d debug-level option (7f87534)
• web: Conditionally add global extensions array (71d55f0)
• webrtc: Fix link to static logo asset (3c72575)
• webrtc: Fix use of deleted default constructor of sample_pool (34db23c)
• webrtc: Move protocol callback logic to static handler (2c3d4e7)
• websocket: Use previous connection state in CLOSED callback (de4cf21)
• wrong config name in ignored configs (a0fff22)

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