v2.9.0 release announcement

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Unreleased (2023-11-30)

🚀 Enhancement

• Other
  • #4070 Add support for single file hubs (@cmdcolin)
  • #4096 Allow searching by gene name using linear synteny view (@cmdcolin)
  • #4068 Allow searching the text-index by gene name from the URL bar (@cmdcolin)
  • #3948 Make the default setting for the dotplot/synteny views use 'Existing tracks' by default (@cmdcolin)
  • #4039 Adds "Favorites" and "Recently used" track categories to the track selector (@carolinebridge-oicr)
  • #4067 Add arc plugin to @jbrowse/react-linear-genome-view core plugins (@cmdcolin)
• core, product-core
  • #4091 Allow hiding subfeatures in the feature details panel (@cmdcolin)

🐛 Bug Fix

• core
  • #4094 Refactor faceted track selector to use more MST state (@cmdcolin)
  • #4086 Fix issue where --load inPlace and --force can sometimes remove file unexpectedly (@cmdcolin)
  • #4059 Fix missing icons on some cascading menus (@carolinebridge-oicr)
• Other
  • #4095 Fix faceted metadata header names colliding with non-metadata header names (@cmdcolin)
  • #4071 Fix zip build for mac auto-update (@cmdcolin)
  • #4062 Fix duplicate key error in hierarchical track selector (@cmdcolin)

Committers: 2

• Caroline Bridge (@carolinebridge-oicr)
• Colin Diesh (@cmdcolin)
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possibly commenting images in the comments, and then using it for rehosting, might not work anymore. It now uploads to "private-user-images.githubusercontent.com/" instead of "user-images.githubusercontent.com/"

can see right click->copy link of the above picture ...discussion https://www.reddit.com/r/github/comments/13foas2/github_no_longer_allows_image_uploads_to_be_public/

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another page https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/54551

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confusingly, i can manually edit the image url to something like https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/6511937/287035460-c5705fc9-d90c-4fe1-ad23-e05389047c53.png and it works