Release v2.9.0

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This release adds a new feature for keeping track of your "Recently used tracks" and tagging "Favorite tracks" . This will be valuable especially to users and organizations who have large tracklists!

Screenshot showing "Recently used tracks" dropdown menu

We also added the ability to load "single file hubs" from UCSC. These must be manually pasted in the "Add connection" but in the future, we may add ability to auto-load the hubs via the URL bar or similar. You can find a large amount of these single file hubs from GenArk! https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/

Finally, this release also fixes an issue people saw with auto-updates for JBrowse Desktop on Mac failing.

2.9.0 (2023-11-30)

🚀 Enhancement

• Other
  • #4070 Add support for single file hubs (@cmdcolin)
  • #4096 Allow searching by gene name using linear synteny view (@cmdcolin)
  • #4068 Allow searching the text-index by gene name from the URL bar (@cmdcolin)
  • #3948 Make the default setting for the dotplot/synteny views use 'Existing tracks' by default (@cmdcolin)
  • #4039 Adds "Favorites" and "Recently used" track categories to the track selector (@carolinebridge-oicr)
  • #4067 Add arc plugin to @jbrowse/react-linear-genome-view core plugins (@cmdcolin)
• core, product-core
  • #4091 Allow hiding subfeatures in the feature details panel (@cmdcolin)

🐛 Bug Fix

• core
  • #4094 Refactor faceted track selector to use more MST state (@cmdcolin)
  • #4086 Fix issue where --load inPlace and --force can sometimes remove file unexpectedly (@cmdcolin)
  • #4059 Fix missing icons on some cascading menus (@carolinebridge-oicr)
• Other
  • #4095 Fix faceted metadata header names colliding with non-metadata header names (@cmdcolin)
  • #4071 Fix Mac auto-updates fetching non-existent zip (@cmdcolin)
  • #4062 Fix duplicate key error in hierarchical track selector from using connections (@cmdcolin)

Committers: 2

• Caroline Bridge (@carolinebridge-oicr)
• Colin Diesh (@cmdcolin) Done in 1.41s.

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