2018

Get details on new feature releases, improvements, and fixes across the DNAnexus Platform, related public tools, and public apps in 2018.

DNAnexus publishes release notes by deployment date. Most platform releases are deployed on Tuesdays throughout the year, which provides a predictable cadence for delivering security updates, reliability improvements, and new platform capabilities.

Product Versioning: Release versions are identified by deployment date. For example, a release deployed on June 17, 2025 can be identified as _20250617 in validation and compliance records. This format helps regulated customers identify exact production release versions for compliance.

December 18, 2018

Release for 18-Dec-2018

• Updates to the SCIM server for specific customers to integrate with the DNAnexus Platform Okta authentication server (no impact for all other customers)

December 11, 2018

Release for 11-Dec-2018

• Deprecated command line interface (CLI) commands dx sh and dx exit

• Internal refactoring of code, including adding internal monitoring and alerting functionality

December 4, 2018

Release for 04-Dec-2018

• Added i18n/I10n support to allow the user interface to recognize the user's language selection

November 27, 2018

Release for 27-Nov-2018

• Refactoring external API servers to support Ubuntu 16.04 and configure for autoscaling

• Ability of the user to archive without requiring support intervention (AWS-East only)

• Augmentation of the MongoDB server with an AWS Aurora server (AWS only) for select customers

• Support for HTTPS access for JupyterLab

November 13, 2018

Release for 13-Nov-2018

• Updated the download proxy service to handle a large volume of files

• Movement of SSO functionality from the internal Auth Server to Okta for an existing customer

November 6, 2018

Release for 06-Nov-2018

• Custom expiration dates on tokens

• Added email preferences to user profile

• Turned on the load balancer on the internal API server.

October 30, 2018

Release for 30-Oct-2018

• Upgraded the nginx web server to v15

• Refactoring of the job manager to a high availability status

• Allowing users to see the public symlink URL

• Upgrade to React v16 of the JavaScript library

October 23, 2018

Release for 23-Oct-2018

• Removed the social media links on the landing page of the Platform

• Alerts to org admins when the Audit Trail is turned off (a configuration setting)

October 9, 2018

Release for 09-Oct-2018

• Deployment of the Apollo functionality of the Translational Informatics Suite to appropriately licensed users

• Refactoring code for data egress

September 25, 2018

Release for 25-Sep-2018

• Refactoring of the beta-Apollo code (Translational Informatics Suite)

• Refactoring of data egress functionality