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Version 0.13 (3 Feb 2014)

  • BAM rendering improvements (thanks to Yifei Men)
  • Improved guideline when viewing base-pair resolution data (thanks to Daniel Rice)
  • BAM index-index support (thanks to Dan Vanderkam)
  • Amino acid translations of genes (thanks to Yifei Men)
  • Added support for exporting bitmap (PNG) images.
  • BAM and navigation bug fixes.
  • Better placement of feature labels

Version 0.12 (8 May 2014)

  • Support for "textual" file formats: BED, WIG, and VCF.
  • Allow the main "tracks" panel to scroll independently of the rest of the user interface.
  • Allow tracks to be pinned to the top of the display.
  • Allow more than one local file to be added in a single operation.
  • An option to export the current Dalliance browser configuration.
  • Optional use of web-workers (helpers which can concurrently fetch and process data) for better responsiveness when viewing large amounts of data.
  • Performance improvements, especially when accessing BAM files.
  • Support for a "bigChain" format (.chain files encoded as bigBeds) which can be used as an alignment source for coordinate mapping.
  • New build system, based on NPM, Gulp.js, and Browserify.

Version 0.11.0 (2 February 2014)

  • New track configuration tool.
  • Buttons for jumping to next feature.
  • Improved support for password-protected tracks and track-hubs.
  • Support for VCF files (with Tabix indices).
  • Support for indexed bigbeds and Trix indices.
  • Much improved support for read-level display of data from BAM files.
  • Support for high-DPI (e.g. Retina) displays.
  • Numberous bug-fixes and performance improvements.

Version 0.10.0 (15th October 2013)

  • User-interface elements which were previously presented as large pop-up elements (e.g. the track selector) have now been moved to a sidebar
  • Many clean-ups to the track-selector, and a new matrix view for use with track-hubs.
  • Completed support for the track-hub metadata model.
  • Added a user-interface for manually connecting to a track-hub.
  • Progress indicators on tracks which are actively loading data.
  • Improved support for scatter-plot tracks.

Version 0.9.0 (10th September 2013)

  • Many user-interface cleanups and improvements.
  • New in-browser help system.
  • Thresholding and leaping for quantitative tracks (currently bigwig only).
  • Improved SVG export.
  • New backends: JBrowse-style and Ensembl REST interfaces
  • Improved interface between the browser and backends.
  • Scatter plot views (POINTS glyph in stylesheets).
  • Preliminary support for UCSC-style track hubs.
  • Feature-info plugins.

Version 0.8.0 (11th July 2013)

  • First release using new Canvas-based renderer.
  • Substantial re-write of user interface code.
  • Event-based interface for writing alternative user interfaces.

Version 0.7.x (not formally released, available from Github)

  • New caching layer and speedups
  • Improvements to binary data support.
  • Many bug fixes.

Version 0.6.0 (27th February 2011)

  • Full support for DAS/1.6.
  • Support for indexed binary data.
  • Better interface for adding new data to the browser.
  • Keyboard navigation improvements (in particular, tap space to toggle between zoom levels).
  • Performance and architectural improvements.
  • Export of SVG and PDF files.

Version 0.5.0 (11th September 2010)

  • Mapping of features from other assemblies (using the DAS alignment system).
  • Keyboard navigation (left/right arrows to scroll, +/- to zoom).
  • Rendering improvements, including complete support for the draft DAS/1.6 stylesheet specification.
  • Many user interface cleanups.
  • Dalliance can now easily be embedded in other web pages.
  • The syntax used to set the default configuration of the browser is substantially cleaner.

Version 0.4.0 (3rd August 2010)

Initial public release