Pre-Release 1.9.3 [2017/06/29]

• everything from 1.0.2, including checks for updates

features and usability improvements

• faster searches through
  • two-step extensions for short reads (#36)
  • use of SIMD for short reads (#89)
• smaller indexes again, approx. the size before 1.9.2 (#93)
• species annotation (#76):
  • support for extracting RefSeq and UniParc accession IDs
  • support for UniProt .dat mapping files in addition to NCBI's .accession2taxid
• the expected memory usage is pre-calculated and checked against available (#86)

bug-fixes and minor changes

• fixed subject position error in some matches in 1.9.0 - 1.9.2 (#87)
• stricter parameter checking that prevents wrong usage with obscure errors (#92)
• better exception handling (#100)
• some fixes to BLASTN and TBLASTX modes (#95, #102, #104)
• rare crash on FreeBSD
• stack overflow on long exact matches (especially BLASTP, BLASTN)

compatibility

• the on-disk index format has changed and is not compatible to any previous version
• requires seqan >= 2.3.1 (packages built from seqan-2.3.2)