Tues, Jun 16, 2026

What's Changed

UI/general updates

• Remove icons from file access context menu by @Copilot in #755
• Auto supply IDR viewer for IDR images by @Copilot in #762
• Handle CORS errors explicitly with actionable error message by @Copilot in #754
• Allow thumbnails to become full screen on click by @Copilot in #756
• Make "Include files without values" checkbox more discoverable by @Copilot in #760
• Add Help > About menu with version number for desktop app by @Copilot in #768
• Don't show context menu when nothing is selected by @Copilot in #773
• Add drag-and-drop column reordering to file list header by @Copilot in #766
• Fix arrow key navigation breaking shift+click range selection by @Copilot in #759
• Bugfix/non-ascii character display by @aswallace in #786
• Prevent parameter from being undefined by @SeanDuHare in #788
• Fuzzy search -> Is exactly or contains by @SeanDuHare in #775
• Feature/refined button menu by @SeanDuHare in #785
• Support aggregate parquet data sources by @pgarrison in #787
• Feature/show all columns at once by @SeanDuHare in #782
• Optimize column width based on text length by @SeanDuHare in #784
• Feature/file list ux improvements by @SeanDuHare in #783
• #817 Don't confuse tables where one name is a prefix of the other by @pgarrison in #820
• Add Ctrl+A / Cmd+A keybind to select all files in current file set by @Copilot in #758

Query benchmarking

• feat: query benchmark system with DuckDB-WASM by @BrianWhitneyAI in #739
• Add test cases: aggregate 10M+10M, 20M by @pgarrison in #806
• New browser instance per benchmark task by @pgarrison in #808
• Fast benchmark mode by @pgarrison in #819

Compute endpoint, AllCellsMaskSegmentation pipeline

• AllCellsMaskSegmentation by @BrianWhitneyAI in #633
• Fix: use loadBalancerBaseUrl for compute endpoint by @BrianWhitneyAI in #794
• loadBalancer http->https by @BrianWhitneyAI in #811
• Add User field to All Cells Mask modal by @BrianWhitneyAI in #793
• Add PipelineService and wire into redux state by @BrianWhitneyAI in #798
• Add ComputePipelineModal and useComputePipelineMenuItems by @BrianWhitneyAI in #799
• Remove AllCellsMaskSegmentation by @BrianWhitneyAI in #800
• bugfix/pipeline-card-info by @BrianWhitneyAI in #814

Provenance updates

• Feature/provenance updates by @aswallace in #804
• Open query from relationship diagram in new tab by @aswallace in #805
• Feature/provenance redraw from panel by @aswallace in #810
• Feature/provenance query params by @aswallace in #826
• Remove dependence on File ID in provenance graph by @aswallace in #828
• Unset provenance origin when opening new query by @aswallace in #834

Dependency updates

• Admin/Update node by @aswallace in #830
• Bump form-data from 4.0.5 to 4.0.6 by @dependabot[bot] in #838
• Bump launch-editor from 2.13.1 to 2.14.1 by @dependabot[bot] in #835
• Bump @babel/core from 7.29.0 to 7.29.6 by @dependabot[bot] in #836
• Bump esbuild and tsx by @dependabot[bot] in #837
• Bump flatted from 3.3.4 to 3.4.2 by @dependabot[bot] in #840
• Bump lodash from 4.17.23 to 4.18.1 by @dependabot[bot] in #842
• Use SHA for actions in release and deployment workflows by @aswallace in #843

New Contributors

• @Copilot made their first contribution in #755

Full Changelog: v8.9.3...v9.0.0

Monday, Apr 27, 2026

What's Changed

• Fix number range picker blocking input for out-of-bounds intermediate values by @BrianWhitneyAI in #735
• Fix number range filter breaking on page refresh by @BrianWhitneyAI in #734
• Manage localstorage cookies by @aswallace in #720
• Fix loading metadata descriptor files by @aswallace in #732
• Add provenance file option to data source prompt by @aswallace in #741
• Bugfix: delete last query in panel by @aswallace in #746
• Bugfix: cast File Path to VARCHAR before TRIM and regex ops to handle BI… by @BrianWhitneyAI in #748

Full Changelog: v8.9.1...v8.9.3

Thursday, Apr 9, 2026

What's Changed

• Bugfix: grouping with new annotation types by @aswallace in #731

Full Changelog: v8.9.0...v8.9.1

Wednesday, Apr 8, 2026

What's Changed

• Add data type support for CSV data sources by @BrianWhitneyAI in #717
• Add data type support for Parquet and JSON data sources (number, boolean, duration, date, datetime) by @BrianWhitneyAI in #716

Full Changelog: v8.8.1...v8.9.0

Wednesday, Apr 1, 2026

What's Changed

• Register input files under the same name as their data source by @pgarrison in #671
• Fix improper merge: No quotes around parquet_scan() by @pgarrison in #696
• Partial parquet reads by @pgarrison in #698
• Allow file name wrapping by @aswallace in #704
• Bugfix: combine data sources by @aswallace in #700
• Add new query instead of combining by @aswallace in #706
• Improve tutorial experience by @aswallace in #708
• Fix plentiful file list fetches by @SeanDuHare in #715

Full Changelog: v8.8.0...v8.8.1

Tuesday, Mar 17, 2026

What's Changed

• Separate download logic from S3 handling by @SeanDuHare in #664
• Direct From Parquet mode: MVP by @pgarrison in #666
• (Small) Remove storageid from Vol-E URL by @frasercl in #667
• Bugfix: dataset creation deregister by @BrianWhitneyAI in #670
• Bugfix: data_type vs. column_type by @pgarrison in #668
• Add FIJI as a viewer by @SeanDuHare in #665
• Bugfix: generate parquet file name from path by @BrianWhitneyAI in #675
• Render thumbnails if possible by @SeanDuHare in #677
• Stream zarr downloads to zip by @SeanDuHare in #687
• (Small) Downloads show false successes on desktop by @aswallace in #685
• Bugfix: Attempt to render thumbnail even when of unknown type by @SeanDuHare in #690
• Update website header menu by @aswallace in #691
• Database service web worker by @aswallace in #683

Full Changelog: v8.7.1...v8.8.0

Friday, Jan 30, 2026

What's Changed

• Fix SQL construction and add unit tests by @aswallace in #642
• Remove call to fetch total count from query footer by @aswallace in #643
• Provenance MVP by @SeanDuHare in #630
• Fix opening tiffs in Vol-E by @frasercl in #648
• Extend styling across entire row by @aswallace in #649
• Hide provenence addition button by @SeanDuHare in #660
• Fix S3 .tiff file downloads by @SeanDuHare in #644

Full Changelog: v8.7.0...v8.7.1

Monday, Jan 12, 2026

What's Changed

• Add Vol-E as .tiff viewer by default by @SeanDuHare in #609
• Update DuckDB-Wasm by @aswallace in #610
• Add a target zarr resolution to gallery view by @aswallace in #611
• Update code owners by @aswallace in #615
• File panel redesign by @aswallace in #616
• Refactor icon buttons to use new component by @aswallace in #619
• Fix unit test failure by @aswallace in #622
• Add featured section to datasets page by @aswallace in #624
• Autofocus searchbox input field by @aswallace in #623
• Query duplication logic by @aswallace in #629
• Switch from DuckDB Node to Wasm only by @aswallace in #627
• Open file selections and metadata in Vol-E v2 by @frasercl in #621
• Fix scroll behavior on datasets page by @aswallace in #628

New Contributors

• @frasercl made their first contribution in #621

Full Changelog: v8.6.1...v8.7.0

Friday, Oct 31, 2025

What's Changed

• Bugfix: Downloads failed silently for cloud-only files on desktop

Full Changelog: v8.6.0...v8.6.1

Fri, Oct 24, 2025

What's Changed

• Use Ome zarr.js for thumbnails by @will-moore in #598
• Feature/convert to zarr by @BrianWhitneyAI in #592

Full Changelog: v8.5.2...v8.6.0