ChangeLog: 1.4.0 Release - SDC global Attributes

Interface change for `SerialDataCollector` (SDC):
reading old files needs manual tuning for global attributes:
API increased to `1.4.0` and file format bumped to `4.0` since
the changes in SDC are not backwards compatible.

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,6 +1,19 @@
 Change Log for libSplash
 ================================================================
 
+Release 1.4.0
+-------------
+**Date:** 2016-04-12
+
+The `SerialDataCollector` now also writes global attributes
+to `/`, allowing serial files to fulfill the openPMD standard.
+
+**Interface Changes**
+
+ - `SerialDataCollector::writeGlobalAttribute` now writes to `/`
+   instead of `/custom` (follow-up to #182) #229
+
+
 Release 1.3.1
 -------------
 **Date:** 2016-04-12

src/include/splash/version.hpp

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /**
- * Copyright 2013-2015 Felix Schmitt, Axel Huebl
+ * Copyright 2013-2016 Felix Schmitt, Axel Huebl
  *
  * This file is part of libSplash.
  *
@@ -25,14 +25,14 @@
 
 /** the splash version reflects the changes in API */
 #define SPLASH_VERSION_MAJOR 1
-#define SPLASH_VERSION_MINOR 3
-#define SPLASH_VERSION_PATCH 1
+#define SPLASH_VERSION_MINOR 4
+#define SPLASH_VERSION_PATCH 0
 
 /** we can always handle files from the same major release
  *  changes in the minor number have to be backwards compatible
  */
-#define SPLASH_FILE_FORMAT_MAJOR 3
-#define SPLASH_FILE_FORMAT_MINOR 3
+#define SPLASH_FILE_FORMAT_MAJOR 4
+#define SPLASH_FILE_FORMAT_MINOR 0
 
 /** The version of HDF5 that was used to compile splash */
 #define SPLASH_HDF5_VERSION "${HDF5_VERSION}"