Release v2.12.0

This release includes

• Added ability to show genomic or feature-relative coordinates in the "Show feature sequence" panel
• Any sidebar widget can be popped out into a dialog box, allowing for more room to see the feature details, config editor, and more
• Fixed sandbox error on startup of the linux AppImage on OSs with specific settings like Ubuntu 24
• Added aggregation to BigBedAdapter for bigGenePred type tracks to make grouped gene glyphs (see screenshot)

Before and after showing the aggregation of transcripts on a bigGenePred type track

Example of the coordinates display on the feature sequence with the dialog

🚀 Enhancement

• Other
  • #4459 Allow using keyboard shortcut for devtools in production desktop builds (@cmdcolin)
  • #4455 Add slot.type to configuration editor elements (@cmdcolin)
  • #4427 Add ctrl+wheel scroll to zoom both top and bottom of synteny view (@cmdcolin)
  • #4425 Add ability to dismiss dotplot warnings (@cmdcolin)
  • #4422 Make initial linear synteny view import form submit show all regions by default (@cmdcolin)
• core
  • #4456 Add aggregation to BigBedAdapter to group bigGenePred transcripts (@cmdcolin)
  • #4448 Adds genomic coordinates back into the sequence panel accounting for strand direction (@carolinebridge)
  • #4423 Speed up large displayedRegions sets by converting MST array of Region[] into a types.frozen<IRegion[]> (@cmdcolin)
  • #4399 Allow viewing coordinates in sequence feature display panel (@cmdcolin)
• app-core
  • #4443 Allow drawer widget to be "popped out" into a dialog box (@cmdcolin)
• core, product-core
  • #3992 Add ability to get refNames for a track in the "About track" panel (@cmdcolin)

🐛 Bug Fix

• Other
  • #4458 Fix sandbox error on AppImage startup on certain linux systems (@cmdcolin)
  • #4441 Fix sorting data grid on multi-wiggle 'Edit colors/arrangement' dialog (@cmdcolin)
  • #4439 Fix blank lines in multi-wiggle add track workflow causing crash (@cmdcolin)
  • #4438 Fix cursor:pointer style on an alignments feature detail clickable link (@cmdcolin)
  • #4436 Fix "Open synteny view at this position" when file contains CIGAR X/= operators (@cmdcolin)
  • #4426 Fix side scroll in linear synteny view causing the browser "back" action (@cmdcolin)
  • #4417 Fix error message shown on chromosomes with missing data for plaintext GFF3 (@cmdcolin)
• core
  • #4442 Fix unstable dialog width in "About track" dialog for multi-quantitative tracks (@cmdcolin)

🏠 Internal

• #4445 Update oclif/test and oclif/core (@cmdcolin)
• #4440 Use ref instead of deprecated findDOMNode for draggable dialog (@cmdcolin)
• #4429 Remove normalize-wheel library (@cmdcolin)
• #4400 Remove node-polyfill-webpack-plugin (@cmdcolin)

Committers: 2

• Caroline Bridge (@carolinebridge)
• Colin Diesh (@cmdcolin)