The following release notes correspond to the dates January 12 to January 16, 2026.
This release also includes back-end updates to workflows, interactive analysis (Notebooks, Galaxy, RStudio), user interface, Data Repository, and Google integrations to improve upcoming features.
Data Repository
- Bug fix: Added support for exporting large snapshots.
Interactive Analysis
- Published a new lean base docker image for cloud environments. This image also grants sudo permission when used as a base for custom Docker environments. See article for more details: Easily build, customize, and reuse compute environments (Jupyter Notebooks) - Launching 1/16/26
Workflows
- Call-caching will now prioritize the newest historical entries, and not check entries > 90 days old.