Release v1.6.8

We are pleased to announce the v1.6.8 release!

This release includes a change to the default gene style to use boxes instead of "chevron" features, with a directional arrowhead

Before

After

Some additional highlights

• Draws the correct the proportion of SNPs when displaying the SNPCoverage
  height in log scale (thanks @gringer for reporting)
• Adds more optimizations for some alignments tracks
• Adds a per-base drawing mode to alignments tracks

🚀 Enhancement

• Other
  • #2847 Add option to color all the letters on all the reads to the pileup renderer (@cmdcolin)
  • #2849 Avoid drawing intron subfeatures for gene glyphs (@cmdcolin)
  • #2835 Hide add track and connection menu items when using embedded component (@carolinebridge-oicr)
  • #2836 Display low-quality modifications in SNPCoverage renderer for MM tag (@cmdcolin)
• core
  • #2809 Optimizations for alignments tracks and BAM parsing (@cmdcolin)
  • #2828 Change calculation for number of webworkers for web/desktop (@cmdcolin)
  • #2829 Allow user to specify number of workers (@garrettjstevens)
  • #2775 New SVG gene glyph with directional arrows (@cmdcolin)

🐛 Bug Fix

• Other
  • #2852 Fix misaligned features under breakpoint split view (@cmdcolin)
  • #2844 Fix layout of small features without labels for SvgFeatureRenderer (@cmdcolin)
  • #2839 Fix the drawing of SNP height when the SNPCoverage track is using log scale (@cmdcolin)
  • #2825 Fix tracklabels positioning not updating in UI after user selection (@cmdcolin)
• core
  • #2841 Fix alignments tracks loading excessive data on chromosomes where no features exist (@cmdcolin)
  • #2829 Allow user to specify number of workers (@garrettjstevens)

Committers: 3

• Caroline Bridge (@carolinebridge-oicr)
• Colin Diesh (@cmdcolin)
• Garrett Stevens (@garrettjstevens)