What's Changed

🐛 Bug Fixes

• fix thread safety for newly parallell Benchmark by @baltzell in #1403
• actually store default value for OptionParser by @baltzell in #1419
• fix thread safety of newly parallel Benchmark by @baltzell in #1434

✨ AI Updates

• update YAMLs and uber engine for DC AI 2026 by @baltzell in #1393

🔘 GEMC Updates

• Adding the truth-matching service to mc yamls by @raffaelladevita in #1426

🚀 Performance Updates

• Add a warmup for ProgressPrintout by @baltzell in #1406
• move serial/postprocessor utilities to clas-detector package by @baltzell in #1414
• add ProgressPrintout #calls accessor by @baltzell in #1412
• add BenchmarkTimer time acessor by @baltzell in #1411
• separate the serial post-processing for re-usability by @baltzell in #1413
• simplify decoder pool, just be a ConcurrentLinkedQueue by @baltzell in #1435
• give BenchmarkTimer a warmup by @baltzell in #1453

☕ Java Updates

• build(deps): bump com.github.spotbugs:spotbugs from 4.10.3 to 4.10.4 by @dependabot[bot] in #1425
• build(deps): bump com.github.spotbugs:spotbugs-maven-plugin from 4.10.3.0 to 4.10.4.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #1424
• build(deps): bump org.yaml:snakeyaml from 2.6 to 2.7 by @dependabot[bot] in #1431
• build(deps): bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin from 3.15.0 to 3.16.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #1430
• build(deps): bump com.github.spotbugs:spotbugs-maven-plugin from 4.10.4.0 to 4.10.4.1 by @dependabot[bot] in #1443
• build(deps): bump org.slf4j:slf4j-api from 2.0.18 to 2.0.19 by @dependabot[bot] in #1442
• build(deps): bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-deploy-plugin from 3.1.4 to 3.2.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #1459

🔧 Maven Updates

• improve feedback by @baltzell in #1439
• build cleanup by @baltzell in #1447

📦 Dependency Updates

• ci(deps): bump actions/setup-java from 5.7.0 to 6.0.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #1423
• chore(submodule): bump etc/data/magfield from ba858a8 to 72f3246 by @dependabot[bot] in #1427
• chore(submodule): bump etc/data/magfield from 72f3246 to a70d843 by @dependabot[bot] in #1428
• ci(deps): bump softprops/action-gh-release from 3.0.2 to 3.0.3 by @dependabot[bot] in #1429
• ci(deps): bump actions/setup-java from 6.0.0 to 6.0.1 by @dependabot[bot] in #1458

🔘 Other Changes

• cleanup recon-util initialization by @baltzell in #1404
• git: ignore .hipo files by @c-dilks in #1407
• add remove option by @baltzell in #1409
• quiet tarball extraction in github CI by @baltzell in #1422
• default to zero for easier event counting by @baltzell in #1417
• add support for io-services in ClaraYaml filtering by @baltzell in #1418
• cleanup benchmark, remove misfit total, add csv output by @baltzell in #1440
• fix precision on benchmark total printout by @baltzell in #1445
• quiet ProgressPrintout if time interval is non-positive by @baltzell in #1421
• fix(build): handle --no-aux without git-lfs by @c-dilks in #1433
• fix decoder method name(!) and add convenience method by @baltzell in #1448
• publicize constructor and add a pretty total for human consumption by @baltzell in #1441
• add benchmark printout ordering feature by @baltzell in #1446
• give Benchmark a name by @baltzell in #1452
• add convenience method for ProgressPrintout by @baltzell in #1454
• style: quiet run-groovy by @c-dilks in #1455
• get CLARA jar from code.jlab.org instead of clasweb by @baltzell in #1456
• Revert "fix: include transitive gson" by @c-dilks in #1464
• build: bump version number to 14.2.1 by @baltzell in #1463

Full Changelog: 14.2.0...14.2.1

What's Changed

🔘 RG-L Updates

• Time reconstruction of saturated signals by @ftouchte in #1397

🚀 Performance Updates

• add multi-threaded benchmarking support by @baltzell in #1396
• separate the decoder pool and switch it from ArrayBlocking to ConcurrentLinked queues by @baltzell in #1389

☕ Java Updates

• build(deps): bump org.json:json from 20260719 to 20260814 by @dependabot[bot] in #1386

🔧 Maven Updates

• replace old hipo with jevio, dependency cleanup by @baltzell in #1387

📦 Dependency Updates

• ci(deps): bump actions/setup-java from 5.6.0 to 5.7.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #1385

🔘 Other Changes

• add more helpful IndexedList helper method and fix unused broken one by @baltzell in #1380
• add missing IndexedTable method by @baltzell in #1381
• create new schema directory for each JSON file by @baltzell in #1382
• doc: mkdocs -> zensical by @c-dilks in #1384
• add column index accessors to FilteredBank by @baltzell in #1383
• make recon-util CLI initialization a little more reusable by @baltzell in #1391
• cleanup benchmark printouts by @baltzell in #1394
• make recon-util YAML initialization a little more reusable by @baltzell in #1390
• add decoder/data-format convenience method by @baltzell in #1395
• build: bump version number to 14.2.0 by @baltzell in #1400

Full Changelog: 14.1.3...14.2.0

What's Changed

• Rich clustering update by @mirazita in #1357
• added support for geeant4 polycones by @raffaelladevita in #1346
• feat: ALERT pre- and post-KF AI PID inference by @skuditha in #1368

🐛 Bug Fixes

• hotfix: guard fADC pulse fitting against channels missing from /daq/fadc CCDB config by @mathieuouillon in #1358

✨ AI Updates

• update DCClsComboEngine.java to set limit for cluster combos in case of memory explosion by @tongtongcao in #1352

☕ Java Updates

• build(deps): bump com.github.spotbugs:spotbugs-maven-plugin from 4.10.2.0 to 4.10.3.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #1342
• build(deps): bump com.github.spotbugs:spotbugs from 4.10.2 to 4.10.3 by @dependabot[bot] in #1345
• build(deps): bump org.json:json from 20260522 to 20260719 by @dependabot[bot] in #1354
• build(deps): bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-jar-plugin from 3.5.0 to 3.5.1 by @dependabot[bot] in #1362
• build(deps): bump org.codehaus.mojo:flatten-maven-plugin from 1.7.3 to 1.8.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #1364

🔧 Maven Updates

• build: remove javafx from modules that don't really need it by @c-dilks in #1356
• Consume jnp-hipo4 4.5 from the hipo-java package registry by @mathieuouillon in #1360
• feat: build option --no-aux to disable downloading of all auxiliary data by @c-dilks in #1374

📦 Dependency Updates

• ci(deps): bump actions/cache from 5 to 6 by @dependabot[bot] in #1344
• ci(deps): bump actions/setup-java from 5.3.0 to 5.4.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #1343
• ci(deps): bump softprops/action-gh-release from 3 to 3.0.1 by @dependabot[bot] in #1355
• ci(deps): bump actions/setup-java from 5.4.0 to 5.5.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #1363
• ci(deps): bump softprops/action-gh-release from 3.0.1 to 3.0.2 by @dependabot[bot] in #1361
• chore(submodule): bump etc/data/nnet from 73aa434 to 577aac4 by @dependabot[bot] in #1369
• ci(deps): bump actions/setup-java from 5.5.0 to 5.6.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #1370
• chore(submodule): bump etc/data/sqlite from 1f4f527 to b2c1d79 by @dependabot[bot] in #1375

⚡ QCDDAT Updates

• feat: add QCDDAT section to release notes by @c-dilks in #1367
• feat: HIPO to NPZ converter by @c-dilks in #1365
• refactor: replace hipo2npz's custom json parser with standard one by @c-dilks in #1371
• perf: hipo2npz memory efficiency by @c-dilks in #1373

🔘 Other Changes

• use sqlite for rcdb too by @baltzell in #1376
• remove unused & deprecated event-builder stuff by @baltzell in #1350
• build: bump version number to 14.1.3 by @baltzell in #1379

New Contributors

• @mirazita made their first contribution in #1357

Full Changelog: 14.1.2...14.1.3

What's Changed

🐛 Bug Fixes

• fix: QadbBin.getEventNum{Min,Max} return value type by @c-dilks in #1329

🔘 GEMC Updates

• Geometry Factory for Muon Calorimeter by @ethancline in #1302

🔘 RG-L Updates

• Make AHDC vz shift depending on the torus configuration by @ftouchte in #1340

🚀 Performance Updates

• feat: remove error checking in IndexedList's hash-based access by @baltzell in #1326
• feat: replace loop with map lookup by @baltzell in #1323

🔧 Maven Updates

• fix: javadoc warnings by @c-dilks in #1332
• fix: replace deprecated constructors with autoboxing by @c-dilks in #1335

📦 Dependency Updates

• ci(deps): bump actions/checkout from 6 to 7 by @dependabot[bot] in #1334
• ci(deps): bump actions/setup-java from 5 to 5.3.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #1333

🔘 Other Changes

• feat: hash sets/maps over lists in decoding by @baltzell in #1273
• fix macos CI test, add SQLites to coatjava build by @baltzell in #1328
• ci: update needs for final job by @c-dilks in #1331
• feat: read/write a bin specification file for QadbBinSequence by @c-dilks in #1330
• build: bump version number to 14.1.2 by @baltzell in #1341

New Contributors

• @ethancline made their first contribution in #1302

Full Changelog: 14.1.1...14.1.2

What's Changed

🔘 GEMC Updates

• Implement Layer and Wire alignment by @ftouchte in #1310
• RGH recoil (trk and tof) by @silvianic in #1312

🔘 RG-L Updates

• remove AHDC::wf from non-full schema by @baltzell in #1305
• ATOF timing parameters from CCDB by @N-Plx in #1304
• move rg-l engine geometry initialization to detectorChanged by @baltzell in #1306
• Clean bad AHDC hits and use ATOF wedges in the Kalman Filter by @ftouchte in #1309

📦 Dependency Updates

• build(deps): bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin from 3.10.0 to 3.11.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #1295
• build(deps): bump org.jacoco:jacoco-maven-plugin from 0.8.14 to 0.8.15 by @dependabot[bot] in #1307
• build(deps): bump com.github.spotbugs:spotbugs-maven-plugin from 4.9.8.3 to 4.10.2.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #1314
• build(deps): bump com.github.spotbugs:spotbugs from 4.9.8 to 4.10.2 by @dependabot[bot] in #1315

🔘 Other Changes

• fix: restore public access, used in dc calibration suite by @baltzell in #1294
• fix: avoid listeners and timers and call event action manually by @baltzell in #1301
• feat: remove extra clara-io wrapper service by @baltzell in #1296
• feat: cleanup fast-mc by @baltzell in #1299
• feat: remove ClasMath from clas-analysis by @baltzell in #1298
• build: bump version number to 14.1.1 by @baltzell in #1322

Full Changelog: 14.1.0...14.1.1

What's Changed

🔘 RG-L Updates

• refactor(alert): move AHDC track-finding from AHDCEngine to ALERTEngine by @mathieuouillon in #1242

🚀 Performance Updates

• feat: add decoding as a multi-threaded CLARA engine by @baltzell in #1229
• feat: little DC ClusterCleanupUtilities initialization cleanup, optimization by @baltzell in #1288
• feat: little DC hits reading optimization by @baltzell in #1287

☕ Java Updates

• build(deps): bump org.slf4j:slf4j-api from 2.0.17 to 2.0.18 by @dependabot[bot] in #1266
• build(deps): bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-enforcer-plugin from 3.6.2 to 3.6.3 by @dependabot[bot] in #1267
• build(deps): bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin from 3.4.0 to 3.5.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #1291
• build(deps): bump org.json:json from 20251224 to 20260522 by @dependabot[bot] in #1290
• build(deps): bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-antrun-plugin from 3.1.0 to 3.2.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #1289

📦 Dependency Updates

• chore(submodule): bump etc/data/nnet from d03b07d to 73aa434 by @dependabot[bot] in #1275

🔘 Other Changes

• feat: remove verbose option for ci by @baltzell in #1276
• feat: cache unix times and write RUN::unix bank by @baltzell in #1278
• feat: finalize clara io service names by @baltzell in #1279
• feat: cleanup printout by @baltzell in #1282
• feat: remove postprocessing engine by @baltzell in #1284
• feat: cleanup io classes in yamls by @baltzell in #1280
• fix: support null defaults in OptionParser by @baltzell in #1285
• adding hit-track matching info to RICH::calib by @raffaelladevita in #1286
• feat: add unix-time post-processing by @baltzell in #1281
• feat: finish old, new post-processing by @baltzell in #1292
• build: bump version number to 14.1.0 by @baltzell in #1293

Full Changelog: 14.0.0...14.1.0

Adds support for real-run-number simulations with gemc/6.0.

What's Changed

• feat: new detectorChanged(int run) engine hook for geometry initialization in #1211
  • accounting for tstart, tflight and tprop in MC tracks reconstruction
  • removed check on run number when setting the DC hit uncertainty
  • removed hardcoded change to default variation in BAND engine
  • apply TDC jitter correction only if TI timestamp is >0, excluding MC …
  • moved RF offsets to time written to RUN::rf bank
  • switch eb tests to gemc/6.0
  • updated yamls for MC
• build: bump version number to 14.0.0 in #1272

Full Changelog: 13.8.5...14.0.0

What's Changed

🚀 Performance Updates

• feat: keep track of field types during initialization instead of checking later by @baltzell in #1251
• feat: keep track of field types during initialization instead of checking later by @baltzell in #1252
• feat: add generic EVIO+HIPO reader service by @baltzell in #1256
• fix: use index loops in DC hot spots by @baltzell in #1247
• fix: replace DC string comparisons with enums by @baltzell in #1246
• feat: add auto-generated enums for HIPO schema by @baltzell in #1205

📦 Dependency Updates

• chore(submodule): bump validation/advanced-tests/data from 198e15d to b9f2abe by @dependabot[bot] in #1257

🔘 Other Changes

• fix: restore working EB parallel test generation by @baltzell in #1255
• feat: add event sorting to hipo-diff by @baltzell in #1262
• fix: stop preserving unixTime across events during decoding by @baltzell in #1263
• build: bump version number to 13.8.5 by @baltzell in #1271

Full Changelog: 13.8.4...13.8.5

What's Changed

🐛 Bug Fixes

• fix: indexing issue between DECAYS::Particle and REC::VertDoca banks by @skuditha in #1212

🔘 RG-L Updates

• Continue with RG-L Fix in the HitReader and AHDCEngine by @mathieuouillon in #1207

🚀 Performance Updates

• fix: reduce cosine calculations in DC TableLoader by @baltzell in #1237
• fix: replace chains of DC ifs with if-elses by @baltzell in #1245
• fix: reduce DCA swim stopper overhead by @baltzell in #1244
• fix: remove unnecessary magfield probe check by @baltzell in #1250
• fix: reduce thread contention in DC TableLoader by @baltzell in #1238
• fix: more hash/index-based IndexedTable access in DC by @baltzell in #1236
• fix: reduce CVT atan calculations by @baltzell in #1243

📦 Dependency Updates

• ci(deps): bump softprops/action-gh-release from 2 to 2.6.1 by @dependabot[bot] in #1209
• ci(deps): bump actions/deploy-pages from 4 to 5 by @dependabot[bot] in #1208
• ci(deps): bump actions/upload-pages-artifact from 4 to 5 by @dependabot[bot] in #1227
• ci(deps): bump actions/github-script from 8 to 9 by @dependabot[bot] in #1226

🔘 Other Changes

• add option to only set $PATH by @baltzell in #1219
• feat: decouple macos/linux build jobs to reduce CI latency by @baltzell in #1222
• cleanup: remove unnecessary CLARA reader class by @baltzell in #1223
• cleanup: remove example engine by @baltzell in #1224
• fix: run-clara port-finding on macos by @baltzell in #1221
• fix: disable gnuplot fit logging and log file by @baltzell in #1232
• feat: just run gnuplot automatically from scaling script by @baltzell in #1233
• fix: use events instead of events/thread in scaling script by @baltzell in #1231
• back to events-per-thread and better default threads for scaling script by @baltzell in #1241
• feat: add GitLab profiling and pages jobs by @baltzell in #1248
• feat: add thread affinity options to scaling script by @baltzell in #1239

Full Changelog: 13.8.3...13.8.4

Compatible with GEMC 5.13/5.14. Requires Java 21+. Includes grapes 2.24.

What's Changed

🔘 RG-L Updates

• correct the calculation of z positions of clusters and docaclusters by @zyzhangjlab in #1165
• New T2D function for ALERT AHDC by @mpaolone in #1178
• Fix ATOF and AHDC issues: Remove CalibrationConstantsLoader, use IndexedTable directly for AHDC/ATOF calibration by @mathieuouillon in #1200

🔘 Other Changes

• move jclara jar install earlier, for cleaner log finish by @baltzell in #1180
• build: bump version number to 13.8.3 by @baltzell in #1203

Full Changelog: 13.8.2...13.8.3