Release Notes

OpenCGA is still under a very active development, we are heading to the first stable release in 2017 Q1, you can find more detailed information in GitHub Releases at https://github.com/opencb/opencga/releases.

Releases

1.0.0-rc1 (September 2016)

This release constitutes the first release candidate (RC1). This is the biggest release ever with more than 1,400 commits, special mention to j-coll and pfurio for their contribution in Catalog, Storage and Server components.

General

• New command line interfaces (CLI) for users (opencga.sh), admins (opencga-admin.sh) and analysis (opencga-analysis.sh)

Catalog

• New catalog configuration file using YAML.
• New authorisation method. A big list of permission have been defined.
• New smart id resolver. Numerical ids are no longer mandatory and ids are now resolved internally given the alias.
• New and improved java and python command lines.
• New javascript, java and R client implementations.
• Support for annotations in cohorts.

Storage

• Many performance improvements and fixes in MongoBD storage engine, the most notable include a new load strategy to improve file merging scalability
• New storage engine based on Apache HBase, this is completely functional but is tagged as beta until more tests are done.
• New custom variant annotation implemented

Server

• An experimental gRPC server implemented

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v0.7.0

Third Beta

v0.6.0

Second Beta

v0.5.0

First Beta