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# 2021

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.

{% hint style="info" %}
**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.
{% endhint %}

{% updates format="full" %}
{% update date="2021-12-14" %}

## Release for 14-Dec-2021

* Fixes to Cloud Manager, visibility into the org license for the org-admins
* Removed all Ubuntu 16.04 instances from production. Ubuntu 16.04 is available at the app level
* UI fixes to the monitor pages. Improve state transition regarding Jupyter Notebooks
* Apollo: refactoring known issues, such as name tags and interface elements
  {% endupdate %}

{% update date="2021-12-07" %}

## Release for 07-Dec-2021

* User Interface fixes to cancel transfers
* Fixes for the initiation of nested workers and the API call for `apprun` worker limits
* Monthly Security patches
* Apollo: fixes for zero length files, security patches to packages and libraries
  {% endupdate %}

{% update date="2021-11-30" %}

## Release for 30-Nov-2021

* Button changes on the Web User Interface
* Throttling re-enabled, refactoring of known issues
  {% endupdate %}

{% update date="2021-11-16" %}

## Release for 16-Nov-2021

* Complete migration of the UI to React 17 with UI changes to the Data manager, removal of the Global Search button
* Refactoring of known issues, including fixes to watermarks and visual elements
  {% endupdate %}

{% update date="2021-11-09" %}

## Release for 09-Nov-2021

* Additional metrics for spin up and interval time for instances
* User Interface infrastructure updates to React 17
* Infrastructure consolidation for load balancing
* Security patching
* Apollo: refactoring of known issues
  {% endupdate %}

{% update date="2021-10-26" %}

## Release for 26-Oct-2021

* Org Admin can view each org member's userID and email address
* Refactoring minor bugs, including fixing timeouts and fixes to allow additional flexibility for UKB dispensals
* Apollo: Refactoring known issues
  {% endupdate %}

{% update date="2021-10-19" %}

## Release for 19-Oct-2021

* UI fix to HTTPS workers
* Refactoring of many reported UI issues
* Refactoring of unarchive issues
* Org Manager can access the org user's email addresses
* Refactoring of the UKB rate card
* Self-service billing for UKB RAP and PayGo customers only
* Apollo: no release
  {% endupdate %}

{% update date="2021-10-05" %}

## Release for 05-Oct-2021

* Monthly Security Patching
* Deprecation of Global Search
* Apollo: no release
  {% endupdate %}

{% update date="2021-09-28" %}

## Release for 28-Sep-2021

* Refactoring of CloudManager
* Additional heartbeat monitoring of the infrastructure
* Refactoring of user interface issues
* Apollo: Refactoring of known issues and updating the version of tRNA to feed Apollo
  {% endupdate %}

{% update date="2021-09-21" %}

## Release for 21-Sep-2021

* Changes to timeout on instance re-use
* Updates to the billing daemons
* Updates on data withdraw and refresh process
* Moving infrastructure components to node.js v12
* Apollo: Update of Spark to support v3.1.2 and fixes to database pointers
* Apollo available in AWS-Frankfurt
  {% endupdate %}

{% update date="2021-09-14" %}

## Release for 14-Sep-2021

* Additional logging for cluster jobs
* Added additional time for reserve instances
* Efficiency enhancements for listing projects
* User Interface fixes to reported bugs
* Chef upgrade on the infrastructure
* Apollo: Deprecation of the legacy Cohort Browser, efficiency enhancements of Spark and other fixes.
  {% endupdate %}

{% update date="2021-08-31" %}

## Release for 31-Aug-2021

* Updates to Job Manager and Cloud Manager
* Refactoring of issues on the User Interface
* Apollo: refactoring of filter parameters, UI and Spark 3.x upgrades
  {% endupdate %}

{% update date="2021-08-24" %}

## Release for 24-Aug-2021

* Audit logging updates
* Refactoring of the User Interface issues
* SendGrid changes for event-based email notifications
* Apollo: refactoring reported issues
  {% endupdate %}

{% update date="2021-08-17" %}

## Release for 17-Aug-2021

* London region archiving
* Refactoring of email alerts
* Code efficiencies around Audit Trail generation
* Efficiencies added to the backend code to allow a more efficient list of projects.
* Apollo: refactoring known issues, efficiency enhancements and deprecation of the legacy Cohort Browser
  {% endupdate %}

{% update date="2021-08-10" %}

## Release for 10-Aug-2021

* Cloud Manager caching implemented in regions that use autoscaling
* Refactoring of internal database to increase efficiency
* Opening AWS region in London, with visibility on the user interface and rate cards in UK currency
* Internal Splunk updated to v8.1.5
* OpenJDK v11 updated on Ubuntu 18.04 AMIs
* Apollo: No Release
  {% endupdate %}

{% update date="2021-08-03" %}

## Release for 03-Aug-2021

* Switch to the Pannexin User Interface only
* Data master fixes in the User Interface
* Query optimizations
* Internal migration of the org-specific audit logs to a more efficient process
* Apollo: Refactoring of error messages, UI fixes to gene filter parsing and semaphore fixes for API calls
  {% endupdate %}

{% update date="2021-07-27" %}

## Release for 27-Jul-2021

* Reset job fix
* jQuery update
* Master Data UI fixes
* lambda functions update
* increase Cloud Manager Resilience
* Apollo: Refactoring known issues, including updates for code efficiencies and documentation
  {% endupdate %}

{% update date="2021-07-20" %}

## Release for 20-Jul-2021

* Restart job fix
* Internal update of jQuery to v3.6.0
* Monthly vulnerability patching implemented in production
* Apollo: Refactoring of known issues, including some minor refactor of UI for efficiencies
  {% endupdate %}

{% update date="2021-07-13" %}

## Release for 13-Jul-2021

* Additions to ProjectDescribe API to include ranking field
* Migration of the Visualization tab to the updated interface (Pannexin)
* Job Manager efficiencies
* Apollo: Added `TIP_VIZ_COHORT_ANDOR`, `DNA_GUI_COHORT_ANDOR_JOIN_FILTER`, and `DNA_GUI_COHORT_ANDOR_FILTER_GROUP` functionality
  {% endupdate %}

{% update date="2021-06-29" %}

## Release for 29-Jun-2021

* Archive API updates
* Platform refactoring: Fixes to the User Interface and error handling when project files do not exist
* Deprecation of Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04 instances. Support continues for workers using Ubuntu 16.04 to 20.04.
* Apollo: Refactoring of R functionality and fixes to license checks
  {% endupdate %}

{% update date="2021-06-22" %}

## Release for 22-Jun-2021

* Updates to the billing page
* Fix to the GetDetails call, handling of incorrect API calls and code efficiencies
* Updating API servers to Ubuntu 18.04, security patching of infrastructure
* Fixes to getFileStatusURL, verification of all filter values in an array, fixes in the data picker, fixes in the histogram functionality
  {% endupdate %}

{% update date="2021-06-15" %}

## Release for 15-Jun-2021

* Upgrade of the dependencies of the Auth Server
* Titan bug fixes
* Org Page UI changes
* Apollo: UI fixes
  {% endupdate %}

{% update date="2021-06-08" %}

## Release for 08-Jun-2021

* Refactoring for handling regions, fixes on cost limits, fixed prioritization and long-term fix for watermarking
* Egress Reporting
* Apollo: refactoring issues
* Apollo: TABBY release - moving sections to multiple tabs
  {% endupdate %}

{% update date="2021-05-25" %}

## Release for 25-May-2021

* Fixes on Rush.js project dependencies
* Correction of defects in the JobManager and JobEvents
* DBCluster updates to the latest TypeScript
* React.js library upgrade, which may have slight changes to the visual appearance as well as possible behavior changes
* Corrections to UserDescribe functionality
* Fixes FileStatus calls, changes for efficiency of filesystem calls, tuning cache sizes
  {% endupdate %}

{% update date="2021-05-18" %}

## Release for 18-May-2021

* Minor AMI changes for logging
* Revert of egress accounting change and some watermark functionality
* Additional information from file describe on watermarked files
* Functionality to allow org-admins to share projects across orgs
* dxCompiler support for bash variables
* Ubuntu 14.04 deprecated
* Apollo: Fixing the total count number when multiple alleles are involved, performance enhancement on the underlying database access methods
  {% endupdate %}

{% update date="2021-05-11" %}

## Release for 11-May-2021

* Job re-use with watermarking
* Cloud Manager updates
* Increase granularity in egress billing
* Apollo: fixes of known issues, such as retry logic on read conditions and efficiency changes in the User Interface
  {% endupdate %}

{% update date="2021-05-04" %}

## Release for 04-May-2021

* Updates to the DBCluster monitoring process
* Re-deployment of dl-proxy modules to support ungraded infrastructure
* Added application context ID to profiled projects, workers handle watermarked APIs, and additional platform optimizations
* Implementing monthly vulnerability patching
* Apollo: Fixes of known issues within Apollo, including data filter conditions and fixes to the Locus filter
  {% endupdate %}

{% update date="2021-04-27" %}

## Release for 27-Apr-2021

* Refactoring of watermarking code to address issues
* Refactoring of code performing bulk calls to reduce the volume of information returned
* Updated the user experience (UI) with a new root component error page. Formerly, an error showed a blank screen when the worker crashed.
* Implement Apollo on Azure West-US
  {% endupdate %}

{% update date="2021-04-20" %}

## Release for 20-Apr-2021

* DBCluster services were updated to be more efficient.
* Okta updates on dependencies
* Fixes to the autoscaling of the Cloud manager infrastructure
* Fixes to the timestamps on expired/destroyed containers to integrate correctly in the metadata database
* Expanded IP range on workers
* PHI flag implemented on Azure
* Implemented the 2FA authentication in the Pannexin code (formerly only on the membrane UI code)
* Apollo: Updates to the metadata connect functionality
* Apollo: Fixes with the concurrency issues with API calls
* Apollo: Efficiency updates to reduce the number of API calls
  {% endupdate %}

{% update date="2021-04-13" %}

## Release for 13-Apr-2021

* Fix to allow UKB RAP users to download from multiple resources
* Continued rollout of v6 to v12 upgrades to Node.js in the `APIproxy` and CloudManager infrastructure
* Updates to allow the cloud manager to handle tagged AMIs
* Efficiency changes to the API server from the Monitor tab.
* UI fixes to the Cohort Browser where screen disappears and table crashes
* All AMIs on AWS updated to Ubuntu 18.04. AMI updates for Azure planned for later release. Support maintained for older AMIs
* Apollo: Updates to the Vizserver to more efficiently use the API server and efficiencies implemented on the monitor badges.
* Apollo: Resolved access issues to non-DNAnexus S3 buckets.
* Apollo: Added `DXDATA_CREATE_COHORT` functionality to the product.
  {% endupdate %}

{% update date="2021-04-06" %}

## Release for 06-Apr-2021

* Fix to `userDescribe` functionality
* Fix to DBClusters
* Okta SCIM update
* Vulnerability patching
* Refactoring of SSO token exchange
* Apollo: Resolving issues accessing data in public S3 buckets, fixes for the data filters, and increased the efficiency of displaying tables in the User Interface
  {% endupdate %}

{% update date="2021-03-30" %}

## Release for 30-Mar-2021

* Refactoring user describe functionality to provide greater visibility to the org-admin
* Refactoring of minor User interface bugs
* Apollo: Minor fixes to the filters
  {% endupdate %}

{% update date="2021-03-23" %}

## Release for 23-Mar-2021

* Refactoring of the watermarking and UKB withdraws
* Refactoring of User Interfaces, including multiple wildcard support
* Apollo: refactoring of the Azure filesystem support and entity relationship filters
  {% endupdate %}

{% update date="2021-03-16" %}

## Release for 16-Mar-2021

* Refactoring of functional issues related to: update job pricing, updating autoscaling of cloud manager, fixes to the event emitter components, updates to analysis describe to get increased mapping, increase org-admin ability to assign roles within their role, and efficiency fixes to the watermarking API calls.
* Performance refactoring such as deletes on auto-throttled instances, fixes of updates to update describe for field mapping to the User Interfaces as well as removing deprecated instances out of the code base.
* User interface currency awareness
* User interface capability to upload directly from S3 and Blob storage
* Apollo: refactoring of issues arising from Azure filesystem
  {% endupdate %}

{% update date="2021-03-09" %}

## Release for 09-Mar-2021

* Added support for GPU and high memory instances on Azure
* Apollo: Released on Azure (US-West)
* Fixed Titan issues with hanging and unassigned cluster jobs and related task management
* Updated dependencies of the Okta-SCIM servers
* Fixed bugs in `projectDescribe`
* Added CLI ability to lower a job's priority to the UI
* Apollo: Fixed configuration tables on Azure. Incomplete configuration tables no longer trigger error flags.
  {% endupdate %}

{% update date="2021-03-02" %}

## Release for 02-Mar-2021

* Added failed job restart fixes
* Added autoscaling Cloud Manager in the AWS-London region for UKB RAWP
* Added granular reporting of Worker egress and access to heartbeat frequency
* Added restrictions to changing addBilltoRegion
* Improved file closer efficiency for files >1TB
* Added worker types in Azure
* Fixed UI bugs
* Fix issues with orchestration scripting for running cluster jobs, bare SQL supported
  {% endupdate %}

{% update date="2021-02-23" %}

## Release for 23-Feb-2021

* Cloud Manager on Azure updated for cluster jobs
* Fixes on UI components to limit length of org-names and improve display consistency
* Apollo: Cosmetic fixes to Scatterplot and refactoring filters in the query builder. Added "is-not" filter condition
  {% endupdate %}

{% update date="2021-02-16" %}

## Release for 16-Feb-2021

* Minor changes to org-design descriptor
* Additional logging info for terminated spot jobs on AWS
* Fixes to org-describe API to identify project calls for UKB RAP
* Node.js updated to v12 for archiving
* Apollo: Fixes to close database command and `readfile` cache. Added efficiencies for field selection UI activity
  {% endupdate %}

{% update date="2021-02-02" %}

## Release for 02-Feb-2021

* User Interface fixes in Cohort Browser
* Monthly security vulnerability patches, including the `sudo` vulnerability in Ubuntu
* Updates to node.js v12 for execution server
* Apollo: fixes to vizserver and UI of the Cohort Browser
  {% endupdate %}

{% update date="2021-01-26" %}

## Release for 26-Jan-2021

* Additional enhancements to capture information from job failures in the audit log.
* Graphic redesign of the download proxy (allow folders and multiple files (up to 100) to be downloaded)
* Moving primary Authentication Server to Ubuntu 18.04
* Apollo: R-based Apollo Dataset SDK
* Apollo: Completion of filters
* Apollo: User interface efficiencies
  {% endupdate %}

{% update date="2021-01-12" %}

## Release for 12-Jan-2021

* Backend fixes to DBCluster
* UI fixes to project transfer flow
* UI vulnerability fix for PRSSI
  {% endupdate %}

{% update date="2021-01-05" %}

## Release for 05-Jan-2021

* Monthly updates to address infrastructure vulnerabilities
* Added one more access priv to HTTPS-worker (fix)
* Limiting Customer Cloud Account to specific API calls and security boundaries
* Backend changes to cloning files from the archive
* UI fixes to data manager
* Apollo: refresh of apps on Apollo to address bugs
  {% endupdate %}
  {% endupdates %}


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