2024

Get details on new feature releases, improvements, and fixes across the DNAnexus Platform, related public tools, and public apps in 2024.

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 17-Dec-2024

  • Security patching of Docker containers

  • Efficiency and bug fixes for writable symlinks and object deletion process

  • Apps: gatk4_haplotypecaller_parallel v2.2.2 and gatk4_haplotypecaller_rnaseq v1.0.2 are released to production

Release for 10-Dec-2024

  • Security patching for EC2 and Docker containers

  • Titan Refactoring: fixes in the data catalog and DBCluster, and tuning of the symlink functionality

  • Apps: FastQC v4.0.2 is released to production

Release for 03-Dec-2024

  • Security patching

  • Refactoring to extend the internal management of secrets, upgrades to the worker to support the latest pyPI functionality and internal upgrades from node.js v18 to v20.

  • Apollo: addition of the locus_ids in the details field API

Release for 26-Nov-2024

  • Security patching for Docker containers

  • Updates to writable symlinks - added functionality

  • User interface improvements regarding tables, spend limits

  • Apollo: Fix for status reports on nested directories in Azure

Release for 18-Nov-2024

  • Security patching of Docker containers

  • Added: BILLING_COMPUTE_COREHOURSURCHARGE_SKU and BILLING_COMPUTE_SPOT_INVOICING

  • Update field dependencies, fix for the getDetailsDate objects descriptors. Updates to clone restrictions for writable symlinks

  • Updates to the spending limits

  • App Update: sra_fastq_importer to v5.0.1, bowtie2_fastq_read_mapper to v2.1.0

  • Apollo: Minor fixes

Release for 05-Nov-2024

  • Security patching of Docker containers and EC2 instances

  • Update of concurrency to drive services

  • Library updates to s3deleter, audit log processing, API servers and download functions

  • Updates to the details in the user spend limits on the User Interface

  • Apps: LocusZoom upgrade to v1.2.2, snpeff_annotate to v3.0.0, bowtie2_fasta_indexer updated to v2.1.0, hisat2_index to v2.0.1, hisat2_mapper to v2.0.1, jellyfish_and_genomescape to v2.0.1, and strelka2_germline to v1.2.1

  • Apollo: new databaseResultsRestricted changes

Release for 22-Oct-2024

  • Security patching of Docker containers

  • Updates to OIDC and writable symlinks

  • User Interface updates and fixes for URL redirects in httpsApp-enabled apps or applets

  • App Releases: SVAL upgrade to 1.0.1

  • Apollo: Additional support for somatic variant datasets

Release for 08-Oct-2024

  • Security patching of Docker containers and EC2 instances

  • Efficiency enhancements via concurrent job event queues

  • NVIDIA driver enhancements - additional drivers and ability to select the NVIDIA driver for their workers

  • App Releases: prsice2 v1.0.4 and raremetal2 v1.0.2

  • Apollo: Upgrade apps

Release for 01-Oct-2024

  • Security patches for Docker containers

  • GxP document cleanup

  • Titan bug fixes for httpsApp-enabled apps or applets that truncated URLs and broke redirects

  • Update NVIDIA drivers in the workers

  • For appropriate subscribers, upload and download functionality from writable symlinks is available

  • App Releases: GATK BQSR (Parallel) v3.2.0, RSEM v0.3.3, FastQC v4.0, SVAL 1.0.0,

  • Apollo:

    • Security fix forbidding the use of '{' and '}' in restricted commands

    • Fix building of cohort query for pheno-somatic dataset linked by non-global primary key.

Release for 24-Sep-2024

  • No release for Titan or Apollo

  • Release of REGENIE apps (version 2.0.1)

  • Release of MultiQC app (v 2.3.0)

Release for 17-Sep-2024

  • Security patches for Docker containers

  • Hardening of secrets management

  • Bug fixes on usage limits

  • User Interface upgrade to the React 18 framework

  • app-plink_gwas was upgraded to version 1.1.0

  • Apollo: upgrade of internal Python to version 3.11 and accompanying libraries

Release for 10-Sep-2024

  • Security patches for Docker containers and EC2 instances

  • Efficiency enhancements and fixes of the User Interface

  • The dxCompiler Docker image published to Docker Hub is deprecated with removal scheduled for November 1, 2024. As a replacement, there are instructions to build the image

  • App app-plink_gwas was upgraded to 1.1.0, including an upgrade to the supporting dxfuse functionality

  • Apollo: Security patching, fixes in the allele frequency for somatic variant assay in the genomic-range API.

Release for 27-Aug-2024

  • Fixes for data dependencies and User Interface bugs

  • Updated the Somatic Variant Assay Loader

  • Updated the app-snpeff_annotate application

  • Apollo: Fix for search in the /system/findDatabases API

Release for 20-Aug-2024

  • Security patching for Docker containers

  • Bug fixes for Titan, including fixes to remove duplicate tokens and reporting project spending limits

  • Release of Picard CollectMultipleMetric v2.1.2, STAR Fusion Caller (v1.0.1), an MQC update of internal binaries, and a fix for a customer content bug

  • Apollo: Fixes for oncoplot and fix for the search in database functionality

Release for 13-Aug-2024

  • Security patching for Docker containers and EC2 instances

  • Bug fixes in Titan

  • Apollo: adding lollipop-plot for somatic variant analysis

  • Release of GATK4 BQSR (parallel) v3.1.0 to the tool library

Release for 06-Aug-2024

  • Security patching for Docker containers

  • New internal functionality to support writable symlinks

  • Removing some error message emails

  • Re-enabling remaining usage estimates on the org billing page. This includes storage estimates and other usage metrics.

  • Apollo: Fixes to the somatic variant functionality, including the addition of new datasets

Release for 30-Jul-2024

  • Security patching for Docker containers

  • Bug fixes for project rollup pages, writable symlinks UI and other minor UI fixes

  • New functionality to allow finding external drives (for selective customers)

  • Apollo: VizServer updates, HDFS filesystem updates across all regions containing Apollo

Release for 23-Jul-2024

  • Security patching for Docker containers

  • node.js upgrade to the server and supporting libraries

  • Writable symlinks are supported (behind a feature switch)

  • Bug fixes to address Redis issues, OIDC fixes, and fixes to the monthly estimate calculations

  • Apollo: memory expansion of backend vizserver and Thrift servers

Release for 16-Jul-2024

  • Security patching for Docker containers

  • Fixes to auto-provisioning users and cloud manager

Release for 09-Jul-2024

  • Security patching for Docker containers and EC2 instances

  • Fixes to DBCluster describe

  • Efficiency improvements on index caching and token-based authentications

  • CVE-2024-27322 patched on R-based apps. Unpatched version is still present for existing pipelines.

  • Apollo: fixes to API counts in vizserver, additional ability to query somatic datasets

Release for 25-Jun-2024

  • Security patching for Docker containers

  • Fixes for email notifications when approaching the spending limits

  • Efficiency enhancements for archiving

  • Somatic variation application available (first phase)

  • Spot instances are available in Azure

  • Apollo: efficiency enhancements in API calls

Release for 18-Jun-2024

  • Security patches for Docker containers and NVIDIA drivers

  • UI changes to make the columns easier to read

  • Adding additional billing functionality

  • Apollo: additional code to check database access before making queries

Release for 11-Jun-2024

  • Security patches for Docker containers and EC2 instances

  • Fixes on project storage limits

  • Version upgrades for dxpy for Nextflow

  • Apollo: performance fixes

Release for 04-Jun-2024

  • Security patches for Docker containers

  • Bug fixes and efficiency enhancements on archival services, enhancements to the metadata storage database and DBCluster accounting

  • Version upgrades to dxpy for new Nextflow pipelines

  • Azure spot instance enhancements

  • Apollo: query builder fixes

Release for 21-May-2024

  • Security patches for EC2 instances and Docker containers

  • Updates to MySQL object to the latest version

  • Fixes to airlock functionality of the TRE, Azure spot functionality, and minor UI fixes

  • Apollo: Enhanced filter support for somatic variant data in the Cohort Browser

Release for 14-May-2024

  • Security patches for Docker containers and EC2 instances

  • Added multiple functions to support write-able symlinks

  • Deprecated some SSO functionality that is no longer used

  • Refresh of CIS Level 2 hardening of Ubuntu instances

  • Fixes to the spending and storage limit functionality

  • Apollo: Fixes to project describe symlinks

Release for 07-May-2024

  • Security patches for Docker containers

  • Bug fixes in Titan for DBCluster billing, project storage spend limit, JobID token

  • Apollo: Fixes to the file describe functionality

Release for 30-Apr-2024

  • Security patches for Docker containers

  • Fixes for Titan egress events and UI. Added additional information in the error messages.

  • Apollo: Minor fixes in the error messaging

Release for 23-Apr-2024

  • Security patching for Docker containers

  • TRE: Fixes for withdrawals of data, withdrawal of data with watermarks and withdrawal enforcer

  • Performance improvements on lateral scaling of concurrency and spending limit enhancements

  • Apollo: Fixes with symlinks in Azure

Release for 16-Apr-2024

  • Patches for Python and Java, patching of Docker containers

  • User Interface modifications to withdrawal functionality and execution lists

  • Apollo: bug fixes around symlinks in Azure

Release for 09-Apr-2024

  • Patching of EC2 instances and Docker containers

  • Updates to the pricing model for DBCluster charges

  • Changes to the User Interface for the monitor page

  • Cloud usage reporting, with project spend limits and notifications

  • Apollo: bug fixes

Release for 26-Mar-2024

  • Security patching for Docker containers

  • First component of writable symlinks

  • Apollo: bug fixes to file describe functionality and cleanup of abandoned symlinks

Release for 12-Mar-2024

  • Security patching for Docker containers and EC2 instances

  • UI fixes for the project change list

  • Apollo: fixes to the filecloser

Release for 05-Mar-2024

  • Security patching of Docker containers

  • Refactoring of API proxy and tokens

  • Added security.txt file

  • Apollo: updates to symlinks functionality.

Release for 27-Feb-2024

  • Security patching of Docker containers

  • Efficiency enhancements on the API proxy upload functions

  • Fixes to the search terms to accept odd characters

  • Apollo: symlink changes

Release for 13-Feb-2024

  • Security patching of Docker containers and EC2 instances

  • Fixes to DBCluster pricing and project spend limits

  • Updated dxpy version in workers

  • Apollo: No release

Release for 06-Feb-2024

  • Security patching of Docker containers

  • UI fixes when deleting more than 10,000 files in a folder and when the "New Folder" option is obscured in some menus

  • Fixes to user-initiated withdrawals, fixes to watermarking, fixes to the email notification of spend limits, fixes to DBCluster billing, and fixes to project archiving when the project contains many files.

  • Apollo: Fixes in the Azure directories for Azure instances.

Release for 23-Jan-2024

  • Security patching of Docker containers and EC2 instances

  • Fixes to billing for DBClusters

  • Efficient implementation of watermarking

Release for 09-Jan-2024

  • Security patching of Docker containers

  • Spending limit changes

  • Job log forwarding (licensed customers only)

  • Apollo: Vizserver security patching

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