This is probably one of the most significant OpenCGA release in terms of new features and improvements.

General

Catalog

New release feature: A new release field has been added to all data models. This change enables researchers to tag or identify the data introduced in Catalog as part of different releases. Can be useful if data is ingested in batches.
JSON Web Tokens (JWT): Session tokens generated by OpenCGA have been moved to the standard JWT. This allows identifying one same user across different applications using federation among other things. Tokens are sent in the header instead of as a query parameter.
Overhaul of ACLs physical implementation: ACLs are now checked as part of the query to the database, improving the performance and reducing the number of calls made.
Multi-group support: Users can now belong to more than one group. Permissions defined to different groups of a user are resolved as the union of them.
Improve synchronisation from LDAP: If an LDAP user logs in and it was not registered in Catalog, it will be automatically imported. Besides, synchronised groups with LDAP where the user belongs or belonged to will be resynced.
Private Variable Sets and Annotations:
Propagate permission between Samples and Individuals
Data models fixes
New member group
New REST web services
QA and testing: more than 1,000 acceptance tests in Fitnesse! we have added about 200 new tests
Performance improvements: