The following release notes correspond to the dates August 24 to August 28, 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.
Interactive Analysis
- New Terra compute environments will now launch with the latest Container-Optimized OS ("COS"), including Nvidia R580 driver branch. Users of pre-existing environments can delete and re-create to get the new version.