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.