Release notes

Version 0.13 (3 Feb 2014)

• BAM rendering improvements (thanks to Yifei Men)
• Improved guideline when viewing base-pair resolution data (thanks to Daniel Rice)
• BAM index-index support (thanks to Dan Vanderkam)
• Amino acid translations of genes (thanks to Yifei Men)
• Added support for exporting bitmap (PNG) images.
• BAM and navigation bug fixes.
• Better placement of feature labels

Version 0.12 (8 May 2014)

• Support for “textual” file formats: BED, WIG, and VCF.
• Allow the main “tracks” panel to scroll independently of the rest of the user interface.
• Allow tracks to be pinned to the top of the display.
• Allow more than one local file to be added in a single operation.
• An option to export the current Dalliance browser configuration.
• Optional use of web-workers (helpers which can concurrently fetch and process data) for better responsiveness when viewing large amounts of data.
• Performance improvements, especially when accessing BAM files.
• Support for a “bigChain” format (.chain files encoded as bigBeds) which can be used as an alignment source for coordinate mapping.
• New build system, based on NPM, Gulp.js, and Browserify.

Version 0.11.0 (2 February 2014)

• New track configuration tool.
• Buttons for jumping to next feature.
• Improved support for password-protected tracks and track-hubs.
• Support for VCF files (with Tabix indices).
• Support for indexed bigbeds and Trix indices.
• Much improved support for read-level display of data from BAM files.
• Support for high-DPI (e.g. Retina) displays.
• Numberous bug-fixes and performance improvements.

Version 0.10.0 (15th October 2013)

• User-interface elements which were previously presented as large pop-up elements (e.g. the track selector) have now been moved to a sidebar
• Many clean-ups to the track-selector, and a new matrix view for use with track-hubs.
• Completed support for the track-hub metadata model.
• Added a user-interface for manually connecting to a track-hub.
• Progress indicators on tracks which are actively loading data.
• Improved support for scatter-plot tracks.

Version 0.9.0 (10th September 2013)

• Many user-interface cleanups and improvements.
• New in-browser help system.
• Thresholding and leaping for quantitative tracks (currently bigwig only).
• Improved SVG export.
• New backends: JBrowse-style and Ensembl REST interfaces
• Improved interface between the browser and backends.
• Scatter plot views (POINTS glyph in stylesheets).
• Preliminary support for UCSC-style track hubs.
• Feature-info plugins.

Version 0.8.0 (11th July 2013)

• First release using new Canvas-based renderer.
• Substantial re-write of user interface code.
• Event-based interface for writing alternative user interfaces.

Version 0.7.x (not formally released, available from Github)

• New caching layer and speedups
• Improvements to binary data support.
• Many bug fixes.

Version 0.6.0 (27th February 2011)

• Full support for DAS/1.6.
• Support for indexed binary data.
• Better interface for adding new data to the browser.
• Keyboard navigation improvements (in particular, tap space to toggle between zoom levels).
• Performance and architectural improvements.
• Export of SVG and PDF files.

Version 0.5.0 (11th September 2010)

• Mapping of features from other assemblies (using the DAS alignment system).
• Keyboard navigation (left/right arrows to scroll, +/- to zoom).
• Rendering improvements, including complete support for the draft DAS/1.6 stylesheet specification.
• Many user interface cleanups.
• Dalliance can now easily be embedded in other web pages.
• The syntax used to set the default configuration of the browser is substantially cleaner.

Version 0.4.0 (3rd August 2010)

Initial public release