Release v1.7.9

We are pleased to present v1.7.9!

This release features several bugfixes and improvements submitted by community
members, including a CLI fix when specifying --indexFile with CSI files, and a
new feature to get FASTA metadata from an external file.

Additionally, we have switched to canvas2svg for SVG exports, which can now
handle more sophisticated operations like bezierCurves (used for sashimi-style
arc in RNA-seq data), and circles (used by jbrowse-plugin-gwas)

Before (note bad intron and lack of arcs rendered on bottom track)

After (fixed intron rendering and arcs)

🚀 Enhancement

• core
  • #2991 Use canvas2svg for SVG export, fixes non-rasterized usage of bezier, arcs, and more (@cmdcolin)
  • #2483 Add setting to color by query score per alignment for dotplot, support HTML in config slot descriptions (@cmdcolin)
  • #2983 Set target=_blank by default in user HTML links (@cmdcolin)
• Other
  • #2994 Allow choosing filename for svg export (@cmdcolin)
  • #2968 Add FASTA metadata location to BgzipFastaAdapter and IndexFastaAdapter configuration (@adamjohnwright)

🐛 Bug Fix

• core
  • #2989 Fix bezierCurveTo ponyfill on firefox (@cmdcolin)
• Other
  • #2977 Respect --indexFile option when adding VCF and BED tracks (@heavywatal)
  • #2974 Fix track indexing being ignored after first add track widget usage (@teresam856)

🏠 Internal

• #2980 Remove errors related to test coverage in CI (@cmdcolin)

Committers: 4

• Adam Wright (@adamjohnwright)
• Colin Diesh (@cmdcolin)
• Teresa Martinez (@teresam856)
• Watal M. Iwasaki (@heavywatal)