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 18-Nov-2024
Security patching of Docker containers
Added:
BILLING_COMPUTE_COREHOURSURCHARGE_SKUandBILLING_COMPUTE_SPOT_INVOICINGUpdate field dependencies, fix for the getDetailsDate objects descriptors. Updates to clone restrictions for writable symlinks
Updates to the spending limits
App Update:
sra_fastq_importerto v5.0.1,bowtie2_fastq_read_mapperto v2.1.0Apollo: 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_annotateto v3.0.0,bowtie2_fasta_indexerupdated to v2.1.0,hisat2_indexto v2.0.1,hisat2_mapperto v2.0.1,jellyfish_and_genomescapeto v2.0.1, andstrelka2_germlineto v1.2.1Apollo: new databaseResultsRestricted changes
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 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_gwaswas upgraded to 1.1.0, including an upgrade to the supportingdxfusefunctionalityApollo: Security patching, fixes in the allele frequency for somatic variant assay in the genomic-range 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 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 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 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
dxpyfor new Nextflow pipelinesAzure spot instance enhancements
Apollo: query builder fixes
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 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.
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