2020
Get details on new feature releases, improvements, and fixes across the DNAnexus Platform, related public tools, and public apps in 2020.
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.
Release for 15-Dec-2020
UI refactoring to address 3.0 re-route issue and a fix to allow the batch input selection
Changed email notifications for failed jobs. For massive workflow failures (more than a thousand jobs), email notifications focus on parent jobs only instead of individual job failures.
Health checks on the internal Cloud Manager
Transition of internal servers to node.js v12
UI changes for UK BioBank users
Apollo: adding existential filter
Release for 08-Dec-2020
Updating SendGrid emails (job status emails are processed via SendGrid)
Updating SSL credentials for 2021
UI fixes to allow the user to switch between Cohort Browsers
UI fix for the processing of long and complicated workflows/pipelines
Fix of job manager to accommodate detached jobs from appropriately licensed customers
Add access to Jupyter Notebook Previewer via the UI
Apollo: refactoring of the
rsidfilterApollo: Allow for version switch to support Apache Spark V3.0.1
Release for 01-Dec-2020
Fix for CanSeePrices to check the currency type (USD or GBP)
Fix of issues in the download proxy
Fix of the withdraw service for UK BioBank
Efficiency and performance enhancements for job re-use functionality
Update logic for price currency (USD and GBP)
Adding functionality:
DNA_API_RDS_CREATE_DBCluster,DNA_API_RDS_TERMINATE_DBCluster,DNA_API_RDS_USE_DBClusterfor TitanJupyter Notebook file viewer
Apollo: Minor refactoring of the filters
Release for 16-Nov-2020
Using a shared image gallery for workers in AWS and Azure.
Turn on autoscaling for the Cloud Manager in the AWS EU-West region only
Correction on measuring the runtime of cluster jobs
Refactoring of data dispensal issues
UI refactoring of Data Manager and Cohort Browser to address issues
Deploying the Ubuntu 18.04 operating system to the internal services of DNAnexus
Apollo: Refactoring reported issues with Apollo and documentation updates
Release for 10-Nov-2020
Refactor of worker job limits to allow the user to continue launching jobs until their user limit is exhausted in orgs where they have not hit their limit.
Refactoring of association checker function
Exposed data egress monitoring performed by the worker (broken out from overall data egress)
Refactoring of issues of Cloud Manager on Azure spokes
Patching of infrastructure vulnerabilities
Updating the billing information to break out un-archiving charges from the archiving charges
Apollo: refactoring issues
Release for 03-Nov-2020
Add currency field to the
job_analysis_describecommandInitial fixes for the File Viewer for the Safari viewer (macOS native browser)
Refactoring of the Cloud Manager log reporting into the SIEM (more information) and log rotation on the Cloud Managers
Apollo: Refactoring reported issues with Apollo, including file status cache issues resolved, fixes to the helper method for exploding columns, and performance improvements
Release for 27-Oct-2020
Job Manager and Cloud Manager autoscaling
Detached Job functionality added
Guard rail on number of objects to limit to less than 100,000 objects per command
User Interface fixes to the login redirect URL
Efficiencies for data dispensal application
Apollo: refactoring reported issues
Tools: Original Quality Functionality Equivalent app released
Release for 20-Oct-2020
Refactoring of the Cloud Manager for efficiency and resolution of issues
Refactoring for more efficient communication between the Job Manager and the internal API Server
Make default the view of the archive data usage.
Enable logging of API functions that call other API calls. This creates logging chains such as
API_1-->API_2-->API_3User Interface Refactoring cleanup
Apollo: Refactoring of reported issues, such as fixes when multiple spark clusters are using the same file and resource optimization
Release for 13-Oct-2020
Refactoring of user describe functionality, lambda updates for performance, fixes to RegionIPRegions to map from the spokes to the user's IP space and improved efficiency of the archive state check functionality
User interface performance fixes - specifically in the data manager
Security vulnerabilities for infrastructure were patched
node.js upgrades in the infrastructure
Apollo: fixes to the scatter plot and dates of the histogram functionality. Fixes to parsing large files (> 2G).
Release for 06-Oct-2020
Additional tuning of the Cloud manager for autoscaling
Minor refactoring of "find" API call to return all possible items
Data manager in the user interface shows the Cohort Browser objects, but excludes the size of related objects
Ubuntu 20.04 is available for workers in all clouds (AWS and Azure) in all regions.
Internal instances of nginx are upgraded to version 1.18
Apollo: Additional refactoring to address issues with the Cohort Browser, version changes in
dxdata, and entity support for boxplot
Release for 22-Sep-2020
Additional tuning of the Cloud manager
Internal refactoring to expand the user describe functionality for spot instances, kill-switch when jobs hit their pricing limitations, and additional reporting from the API servers
Internal nginx servers upgraded to 1.18
Apollo: additional refactoring to the Cohort Browser
Release for 01-Sep-2020
Refactor internal cloud manager for VPC changes
Refactoring of the operation of cluster computing in workflows
Apollo: fixes to handling netstat error. Refactoring of the cluster packages and use of the appropriate signatures in Apollo components.
Apollo: go live of Apollo in the London cloud for select customers.
Release for 25-Aug-2020
Refactoring links between the Job Manager and API server
Added
DNA_API_PROVIDER_DESCRIBEfunctionality to the PlatformAddition of AWS-London cloud to DNAnexus environment for specific customers
Vulnerability patching of the DNAnexus cloud infrastructure
Apollo: Refactoring of V3 of data/time and max/min range of the histogram. Added boxplot explode functionality for hierarchical and multi-column selections
Release for 04-Aug-2020
Updates to internal servers - API Servers to Ubuntu 20.04
Refactoring of database cluster in the infrastructure
Refactoring of the project describe functionality to address issues
Okta-SCIM updates (SSO for customers)
Apollo: internal code to perform additional data payload verification tests, cohort code refactoring and updating dx-data in Docker.
Release for 28-Jul-2020
User Interface Refactoring, including adding users to org by email, fixes to password complexity, UI footer style checks and a fix for a race condition occasionally seen when selecting folders.
Cloud Manager refactoring
Proxy Lock refactoring for the China region only.
OktaSCIM changes
Release for 07-Jul-2020
Enhancements for internal robustness of the HTTPS-worker client
User interface refactoring, including changing the load spinner to reflect current brand colors
Apollo: align ownership of internal files for smoother processing, updating panda and internal query routes. Updates on v3 of the updater and data loader.
Release for 23-Jun-2020
Refactoring of the internal platform message queue to decrease the number of calls from the Redis server.
Increase platform robustness by refactoring the jobEventQueue and Standard Queue
User Interface refactoring in the data manager
Apollo: Refactoring cluster log collection and arguments of the vizserver API. Fixes in the backend components to support the allele frequency functionality.
Release for 16-Jun-2020
UI refactoring ("Pannexin"), including deprecation of unused code, fix for missing file size in file preview for image/pdf, refactoring of the data manager and fix of the range filtering in GWAS Manhattan dataset.
Added government required links regarding contacts and abuse to the China cloud of DNAnexus.
Refactoring of log rotation within the Platform
Apollo: Changes of the vizserver to support the new software versions in the backend, API refactoring and collection of logs in the Spark cluster.
Release for 09-Jun-2020
Minor bug fixes in the Platform, including resolving symlinks and path handling
User Interface switch between the legacy UI "Membrane" and newer UI "Pannexin"
Disable public user from executing a user-describe functionality (security enhancement)
FedRAMP email channel through Salesforce is activated
Common password rejection
Apollo: refactoring of API design, update error messages, date & time fixes, and upgrade to the HAR files
Release for 28-Apr-2020
Cookie notice added in compliance with EU requirements
Minor fixes to node.js installers and packaging (internal)
Refactoring of existing Cloud manager to increase the monitoring scope
Apollo: Added
DNA_GUI_SURVIVAL_PLOTfunctionality in the Cohort Browser. Added support on Azure for the Thrift server integration from VizServer
Release for 10-Mar-2020
Refactoring to existing Cohort Browser
Security patches to the user interface
Added the following functionality:
DNA_GUI_DM_ELEMENT_CHECK,DNA_GUI_DM_NAVIGATION,DNA_GUI_SIDEBAR_OPEN,DNA_GUI_DM_INFO_TOGGLE,DNA_GUI_CUSTOMIZE_COLUMNS,DNA_GUI_FILTER_FIELDS,DNA_GUI_DM_CLEAR_FILTERS,DNA_GUI_DM_LOAD,DNA_GUI_DM_CREATE_NEW_FOLDER,DNA_GUI_DM_CREATE_NEW_WORKFLOW,DNA_GUI_DM_UPLOAD_FILE,DNA_GUI_DM_COPY_FROM_PROJECT,DNA_GUI_DM_START_ANALYSIS,DNA_GUI_DM_DEFAULT_ACTIONSApollo: Added the following functionality:
DNA_GUI_REMOVE_ALL_TILES
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