OpenCGA is still under a very active development, we are heading to the first stable release in 2017 Q2, you can find more detailed information in GitHub Releases at https://github.com/opencb/opencga/releases.

1.0.0 (Not released yet)

Catalog

Storage

Server

• Remove create-folder from REST, use just create now

1.0.0-rc3 (January 2017)

General

• Major changes in maven properties and configuration files. (#480)
• catalog-configuration.yml and configuration.yml have been merged. (#476)

Catalog

• Added support to fetch shared projects and studies.
• Added organism information to the project data model. (#455)
• Renamed diskUsage and diskQuota for size and quota respectively in all data models were present.
• Closed sessions are now removed from the array of sessions (but they can still be found in the audit collection). (#475)

Storage

• Improve error handling for storage operations (#447, #463, #465)
• Add param --resume to opencga-analysis.sh and opencga-storage.sh command line (#465)
• Import and export variants datasets (#459, #460)
• Enable gRPC as top level feature (#492)
• New top layer StorageManager connecting catalog with storage (#486)
• Shade proto and guava dependencies for Hadoop (#440)

Server

• Create and update webservices have been all implemented via POST.

Known issues

• OpenCGA storage hadoop is not available in this version. To compile use this line:

  mvn clean install -DskipTests -pl '!:opencga-storage-hadoop-core'

1.0.0-rc2 (Novemeber 2016)

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

v0.7.0

Third Beta

v0.6.0

Second Beta

v0.5.0

First Beta