2021
Get details on new feature releases, improvements, and fixes across the DNAnexus Platform, related public tools, and public apps in 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.
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 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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 would show a blank screen when the worker crashed.
Implement Apollo on Azure West-US
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
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
APIproxyand CloudManager infrastructureUpdates 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_COHORTfunctionality to the product.
Release for 06-Apr-2021
Fix to
userDescribefunctionalityFix 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
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
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
projectDescribeAdded 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.
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
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
readfilecache. Added efficiencies for field selection UI activity
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
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
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