Release v1.6.5

We are pleased to announce v1.6.5!

This release features various bugfixes to the @jbrowse/cli tool, including better
support for large config files with the admin-server, and renaming --out to
--root for the admin-server.

It also includes two important fixes related to stats estimation since 1.6.4, one
where tracks would display an error on sparse tracks and another where tracks
would fail to perform stats estimation on BAM files due to a type confusion.

🚀 Enhancement

• #2736 Add better display of error state in dotplot view and load gzipped PAF files (@cmdcolin)
• #2705 Increase admin-server payload limit (@garrettjstevens)

🐛 Bug Fix

• Other
  • #2758 Use VariantTrack for plaintext VCF type (@cmdcolin)
  • #2738 Add better catch for XS and TS tag detection from CRAM (@cmdcolin)
  • #2733 Use sparse array for alignments coverage to fix bug viewing large sparse regions (@cmdcolin)
  • #2734 Use node fetch instead of follow-redirects in cli (@cmdcolin)
  • #2726 Handle .bgz file extension for text-index (@cmdcolin)
  • #2727 Add engines 16 to @jbrowse/img (@cmdcolin)
  • #2723 Make jbrowse desktop more robust to errors when reading recent sessions file (@cmdcolin)
  • #2715 Change --target to --root for jbrowse CLI admin-server (@cmdcolin)
• core
  • #2757 Fix type confusion with stats estimation causing BAM files to fail byte size calculation (@cmdcolin)
  • #2750 Add bezierCurveTo to offscreen canvas ponyfill to fix sashimi arcs rendering in alignments track in webkit and firefox (@cmdcolin)
  • #2719 Avoid uninitialized state during stats estimation (@cmdcolin)
  • #2707 Fix ability to use authenticated assembly files (@garrettjstevens)
  • #2695 Fix disabled state on the linear genome view track labels dropdown menu (@cmdcolin)

📝 Documentation

• #2716 Update to node12 requirement for @jbrowse/cli (@cmdcolin)
• #2605 Developer guide reorganization and create new API document (@cmdcolin)

🏠 Internal

• core
  • #2664 Use babel config from core in root (@garrettjstevens)

Committers: 3

• Colin Diesh (@cmdcolin)
• Garrett Stevens (@garrettjstevens)
• Sebastian Benjamin (@hextraza)