23.1 Galaxy Release (June 2023)

Highlights

Activity Bar Interface

23.1 introduces the Activity Bar, a new customizable interface element designed for swift navigation through various sections of the application. The feature is currently opt-in, and you can try it today by enabling it in User Preferences. Upcoming releases will enable this by default for all users, and will extend functionality with new activities and by allowing users to drag items such as datasets and workflows directly from the UI into the activity bar component.

Carbon Emissions Reporting

Monitor your environmental impact with our new Carbon Emissions Reporting feature. This feature is available on the job information page, allowing users to track their carbon footprint in real-time. The calculations assume global average values for carbon intensity and power usage effectiveness. Monitor your carbon footprint and become inspired to better your relationship with the environment!

History Archival Feature

The history menu has a new option to move a history out of your active histories and into an archive. When archiving a history, you will be presented with two options: either to “Keep the Storage Space” or to “Free the Storage Space” taken up by the history. Keeping the storage space will keep the contents of the history where they are, allowing them to be restored at any moment, but will prevent the UI from allowing certain operations on the history. Freeing the storage space will prompt you to package and export the history to a permanent remote source as a backup snapshot, and then will purge the history and its contents to free up storage space. There will be a simple list, titled Archived Histories, for you to explore your archived histories and restore and reimport them, as needed!

Visualize HDF5 Datasets

Users can now visualize their HDF5 datasets directly in Galaxy, thanks to the integration of the h5web visualizer (https://h5web.panosc.eu/)!

Galaxy Notification Framework

Galaxy now contains a universal notification framework. This will facilitate sending notifications about a wide variety of scenarios like job completion, artifact sharing, server updates, and more. Users have control over their notifications, including the option to subscribe/unsubscribe from certain types of notifications. The new notification system also supports broadcast notifications, allowing administrators to send server-wide announcements, such as server maintenance or downtime notifications.

New Visualizations

• H5web updates (thanks to @dannon). Pull Request 16509

• Update galaxyproject/charts utilizing visualizations (thanks to @dannon). Pull Request 16674

• Add support for visualizing HDF5 datasets (thanks to @jarrah42). Pull Request 15394

• Phylocanvas rebuild (thanks to @dannon). Pull Request 15521

• Gitignore update (thanks to @ElectronicBlueberry). Pull Request 16046

• Fixes the parcel2 build for hdf5 viz when using node18. (thanks to @dannon). Pull Request 16047

• FITS file visualization plugin (thanks to @francoismg). Pull Request 16187

• Small test decorator improvements (thanks to @jmchilton). Pull Request 16220

New Datatypes

• Fix bad auto-merge of dev (thanks to @jmchilton). Pull Request 15386

• Follow up to #15186 (thanks to @jdavcs). Pull Request 15388

• Add support for visualizing HDF5 datasets (thanks to @jarrah42). Pull Request 15394

• Merge 23.0 into dev (thanks to @mvdbeek). Pull Request 15594

• Enable strict_equality mypy option (thanks to @nsoranzo). Pull Request 15808

• FITS data format (thanks to @volodymyrss). Pull Request 15905

• Improve display chunk generation for BAMs (thanks to @wm75). Pull Request 15972

• Code cleanups from ruff and pyupgrade (thanks to @nsoranzo). Pull Request 16035

• Dataset chunking tests (and small fixes) (thanks to @jmchilton). Pull Request 16069

• Merge release_23.0 into dev (thanks to @nsoranzo). Pull Request 16088

• Improve robustness of collection edit E2E test (thanks to @jmchilton). Pull Request 16092

• Add hdf4 datatype (thanks to @TheoMathurin). Pull Request 16105

• Fix linting of FITS datatype code (thanks to @mvdbeek). Pull Request 16169

• Add zipped mongodb and genenotebook datatypes (thanks to @abretaud). Pull Request 16173

• Add Visium datatype for squidpy and spatialomics tools (thanks to @astrovsky01). Pull Request 16255

Builtin Tool Updates

• Remove render.py script from iSEE (thanks to @neoformit). Pull Request 16616

• FileInput no longer accept ‘U’ in the file mode (thanks to @bgruening). Pull Request 16704

• Deprecate tools/evolution (thanks to @bernt-matthias). Pull Request 15656

• Allow pending inputs in some collection operation tools (thanks to @mvdbeek). Pull Request 15892

• Updates MGnify interactive tool to v1.1.0 (thanks to @SandyRogers). Pull Request 16179

• Remove various fallback behaviors (thanks to @mvdbeek). Pull Request 16199

Release Testing Team

A special thanks to the release testing team for testing many of the new features:

• Jennifer Hillman-Jackson

• John Davis

• Luke Sargent

• Martin Cech

• Michelle Savage

• Stephen Mosher

Release Notes

Please see the full release notes for more details.

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The Galaxy Team