1.14.0

This is a major new release with the following changes:

• Waiting on implicit 'stable and 'quiet signals now works correctly.
• Updated to OSVVM 2024.07 and UVVM 2024.07.03b for nvc --install.
• Added a warning when an inner declaration hides an outer declaration in a way that is likely to be unintentional (#905).
• The -c sub-command for coverage is deprecated and replaced with separate --cover-report and --cover-merge commands. See the manual for details.
• The argument to the --cover-export command is now the path to a coverage database file instead of a top-level unit name.
• The --force-init command which was deprecated in the 1.7 release has been removed.
• Coverage exclude files now support fold command to merge coverage data from independent sub-hierarchies (from @Blebowski).
• FSM state coverage bin renamed from STATE to BIN_STATE.
• A signature is now allowed in the formal part of generic map associations in VHDL-2019 mode.
• use lib.pack.all no longer makes the bare package name pack potentially visible.
• Very limited initial Verilog support has been added, including the ability to instantiate vendor-supplied UDPs from VHDL.
• Fixed a regression which caused parse errors for some concurrent assertion statements (#956).
• Arrays-of-arrays with downto direction are now dumped in the correct order (#957).
• Fixed incorrect result of 'event and 'active where the prefix is an array of records.
• Fixed a crash when the 'stable attribute is used with a record type (#960).
• Conversion functions applied to individual record elements in a port map now work correctly (#963).
• External name elaboration order checks were overly strict (#964).
• Associating a signal with an out or inout parameter in a procedure that is not within a process now produces an analysis error rather than crashing at runtime (#965).
• The --dump-arrays option now takes an optional argument to specify an upper limit on the length of nested arrays to dump (#959).
• Matching case? statements are now checked for duplicate and missing choices at analysis time (#966).
• Limited maximum instantiation depth to prevent crashes due to stack overflow when elaborating a design that has unbounded recursive entity instantiation (#969).
• Physical subtype ranges and 64-bit integer types are now handled correctly by VHPI (#978).
• Added support for generic map on subprogram call in VHDL-2019 and improved support for array type generics.
• Optimised emission of FST initial signal values which also fixes a potential crash (#979).
• Added checks for duplicate attribute specification (#977).
• Several other minor bugs were resolved (#961, #962, #971, #975, #985).

Special thank you to @bpadalino, @tmeissner, @Blebowski, @amb5l, @m42uko, @a-panella, @cmarqu, @albydnc, @johonkanen, and @augustofg for sponsoring me!