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)
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.