2022

Get details on new feature releases, improvements, and fixes across the DNAnexus Platform, related public tools, and public apps in 2022.

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 13, 2022

Release for 13-Dec-2022

• DNAnexus is on AWS' Marketplace, so if you have AWS-issued credits, you can consume them via this mechanism.

• Vulnerability patching of worker AMIs and Docker containers

• Fixes to the external uploader restrictions, code cleanup

• Apollo: Fixes to the Visualization Server and API server. Cleanup of error messages

December 6, 2022

Release for 06-Dec-2022

• Vulnerability remediation of Docker vulnerabilities

• Completion of the annual SSL cert rotation

• Apollo: fixes to the metastore, fixes to the clipboard functionality in the visualization module and other bug fixes

November 29, 2022

Release for 29-Nov-2022

• Complete migration to new SSL certificates throughout the infrastructure

• Bug fixes for billing, upload restrictions and SSO logins removing redirects to the Project Page

• Apollo: fixes to encryption of upload URLs in the API proxy and other minor fixes

November 15, 2022

Release for 15-Nov-2022

• Security patching of the Titan User interface

• Upgrading upload restrictions at the project level

• Patching Docker containers to address new vulnerabilities

• Apollo: updating SSL certs and refactoring app interactions

November 8, 2022

Release for 08-Nov-2022

• Docker security patching and hardening

• User Interface security patching

• Apollo: bug fixes, library updates, security patching

November 1, 2022

Release for 01-Nov-2022

• Update OpenSSL v3 to 3.0.7 patch level

• Patching Docker containers and CIS level 1 hardening

• Fixes of known Titan issues

• Apollo: bug fixes to known issues.

October 25, 2022

Release for 25-Oct-2022

• Code optimization, bug fixes in the User Interface

• Vulnerability patching for Docker containers

• Apollo: fix API proxy issues, regex fixes for routes and other fixes.

October 18, 2022

Release for 18-Oct-2022

• Security patching of operating system and Docker containers

• Additional Nextflow functionality added to Titan and Apollo

October 4, 2022

Release for 04-Oct-2022

• Bug fixes to Titan and Apollo

• Docker vulnerability patching

September 27, 2022

Release for 27-Sep-2022

• Fix for 2FA prompt for existing SSO accounts

• Fix for Jupyter Notebook calls

• Fix to block archiving of object linked to applets

• Vulnerability patching of Docker containers

• Apollo: upgrades to the internal cache and related internal upgrades

September 20, 2022

Release for 20-Sep-2022

• Filecloser, asynchronous archival function, and API proxy bug fixes

• Internal upgrades of the metadata database

• Apollo: fixes to the Cohort Browser and fixes to internal API routes

September 13, 2022

Release for 13-Sep-2022

• End-to-end FIPS 140-2 validated ciphers within the FedRAMP boundary

• Bug fixes to the authentication server

• Apollo: bug fixes to known issues

August 23, 2022

Release for 23-Aug-2022

• Hardening of routes behind the User Interface

• Vulnerability patches to the Docker containers

• Apollo: Additional granularity to the logging and billing. Cleanup of error messages.

August 16, 2022

Release for 16-Aug-2022

• Added Monitoring and Restriction Controls regarding download and egress, ability to preview, IP addresses of users, and additional security features

• Bug fixes on streams containing gzipped files

• Apollo: Fixes to the 30K Cohort Browser encoding

August 9, 2022

Release for 09-Aug-2022

• Complete migration to OpenSSL v3

• New functionality to restrict IP domains for certain API calls

• Updates to the NVIDIA drivers for GPU users

• Increase the partition sizes for LXC

• Security patching of Docker Containers

• Apollo: Restrictions to downloads from Apollo

August 2, 2022

Release for 02-Aug-2022

• Security patching for Docker Container vulnerabilities

• Usage report fixes

• Hardening of routes in the User Interface

• Increases in timeout period for dxproxy

• Apollo: enhanced CLI based querying, fixes to HDFS filesystem

July 26, 2022

Release for 26-Jul-2022

• Upgrade the metadata database to Mongo 4.4

• Upgrade node.js to v14

• fixes to Archiving in AWS regions

• Apollo: no release

July 19, 2022

Release for 19-Jul-2022

• LXC filesystem limit increased

• Monthly security patching

• Upgrade for SSO users who switch accounts

• Apollo: CLI based data querying

July 12, 2022

Release for 12-Jul-2022

• Security patching of Docker containers

• User Interface self-service billing functionality

• Improved clinical data ingestion experience

• Apollo: Refactoring of VizServer

June 28, 2022

Release for 28-Jun-2022

• Fix of the "create" functionality of DBCluster (AWS deprecated previous engine on 25-Jun-2022)

• Refactoring of user interface issues

• Patching security vulnerabilities of EC2 and Docker containers

• Refactoring issues of the cloud manager on Azure

• Apollo: Enhance validations and experience around ingesting clinical data

June 14, 2022

Release for 14-Jun-2022

• Internal refactoring of reported issues

• End-to-End FIPS 140-2 validated encryption throughout Titan

• Vulnerability patching of Docker containers

• Apollo: refactoring user interface issues

June 7, 2022

Release for 07-Jun-2022

• Vulnerability patching for images and Docker Containers

• Titan new functionality: DNA_API_ORG_REPORT_HISTORICAL_CHARGES

• Apollo new functionality:

  • TIP_VIZ_COHORT_COMBINE

  • TIP_APPS_COHORT_COMBINE_REBASE

  • DNA_GUI_COHORT_COMBINE

• Apollo: fixes on Azure deployment. Upgrades to the Spark engine.

May 23, 2022

Release for 23-May-2022

• Updates to the internal cloud manager and fixes to microservices

• Vulnerability patching of images and Docker containers

• UI fixes

May 17, 2022

Release for 17-May-2022

• Refactoring of multiple analyses workflows, more info on the spending limits and updates to the cookie notice

• Security patching of the underlying operating systems and worker AMIs

• Apollo: no release

May 10, 2022

Release for 10-May-2022

• FIPS 140-2 encryption implemented for uploading/downloading from the storage plane

• Apollo: no release

May 3, 2022

Release for 03-May-2022

• Minor fixes and normal vulnerability patching of the User Interfaces and supporting libraries

• Apollo: minor fixes, including the ability to query without a primary key

April 26, 2022

Release for 26-Apr-2022

• Security updates for the infrastructure

• Backend fixes to support upgrading the metadata database software version upgrades

• Apollo: Enhancements of existing functionality to ease the creation and mixing of multiple cohorts

April 12, 2022

Release for 12-Apr-2022

• Restrictions for SSH functionality

• Refactoring of known issues related to container cleanup, caching, and resource management

• Apollo: Ability to export up to 200 columns in a table. UI fixes

April 5, 2022

Release for 05-Apr-2022

• Tuning to optimize workflow runs

• Updates to the documentation pages of the applications

• UI fixes to show app versions in descending order, other minor UI fixes

• Apollo: refactoring of known issues in the user interface

March 29, 2022

Release for 29-Mar-2022

• Order pending jobs by rank

• Node.js updates

• Tuning of the thrift server throughput. This helps combine cohorts in the Cohort Browser.

March 22, 2022

Release for 22-Mar-2022

• Fixes to known issues, such as tightening the scope of unarchiving to improve control and updating the internationalization library (fixes for text fields in the UI).

• Apollo: Refactoring of issues with field mapping and support for ordered fields.

March 15, 2022

Release for 15-Mar-2022

• Refactoring the User Interface to address issues, including moving the workflow input to the Project workflow pages.

• Fixes to the unarchiving functionality, tighter control of scope of the unarchiving

• Apollo: Refactoring of issues arising from the visualization APIs

March 8, 2022

Release for 08-Mar-2022

• Refactoring known issues in the DBCluster, internal changes to FIPS 140-2 validated ciphers, Cloud Manager, fixes to the app updater when archive resources are involved, and other core systems

• Updates to community portals - caching disabled

• Apollo: Refactoring of the issue involving model input.

March 1, 2022

Release for 01-Mar-2022

• Vulnerability patching of operating systems

• Fixes to code compatibility with rush.js

• Support ticket generation tagged with the Platform page of origin

• Apollo: Enhanced support for bulk RNAseq data in a dataset

• Apollo: Security and version number upgrades of servers

• Apollo: Removal of auto-loading a chart, requiring manual chart generation by users

February 15, 2022

Release for 15-Feb-2022

• Implemented FIPS 140-2 validated endpoints for archival functions

• Bug fixes, such as issues reported in unarchiving function and email org_invite function

• Updating reCAPTCHA functionality

• Apollo: Added functionality to allow a user to include Molecular Expression data in a dataset

• Apollo: Fixes to issues in Thrift and VizServer.

February 8, 2022

Release for 08-Feb-2022

• Update to Node.js v12 for the infrastructure

• Backend updates to rush.js version in some lambdas, revising metadata sharding approach, updates to s3_deleter and minor bug fixes to the User Interface

• Apollo: Address known bugs, including limiting the number of tiles in the dashboard to a maximum of 15

February 1, 2022

Release for 01-Feb-2022

• Bug fixes on job restarts, rush.js updates and increased granularity of data in the Audit Trail

• Apollo: Besides bug fixes, the following functionality was added: TIP_APPS_CLINICAL_DATASET_MERGER, for merging phenotypic datasets, and TIP_APPS_ASSAY_DATASET_MERGER, for merging an assay dataset and a phenotypic dataset.

January 25, 2022

Release for 25-Jan-2022

• Update of security patches of identified vulnerabilities

• Spend limit enforcements

• Enhancements for job filters

• Updates to the email filters

• Apollo: fixes to address solution-exception messages, fixes of the update API calls, and removal of blank pages in the User Interface

January 11, 2022

Release for 11-Jan-2022

• Service Provider Single Sign On (SSO)

• User Interface fixes

• CloudManager enhancements (internal)

• Apollo: updates and fixes of reported issues