All public releases are listed below.
- Improved support and robustness on DIAG cloud
- Delete, resume support in UI
- Default use of large instance type for Illumina assembly in CloVR-Microbe
- Various UI tweaks
- Support for patches and updates to running image
- Support for automatic retries for failed pipelines
- Numerous bug and usability fixes
- Deploy of live demo site at live.clovr.org
- Improved support and reliability on DIAG
- Bundled support for launching instances on DIAG
- Fixes for networking problems at boot
- Updated CloVR-16S v. 1.1 protocol and documentation with SOP and Nat. Prec. reference
- Improved VirtualBox support. New VDI runs all pipelines on an auto-expanding partition.
- Preliminary support for cloud-only mode
- Added ability to add/remove files from existing datasets.
- Now supports adding remotely hosted data files to datasets via URLs.
- Fixed bugs in dataset addition and pipeline configuration.
- Pipeline Grid is now sortable on pipeline ID.
- Links to Ergatis pipelines are provided on in the header of the pipeline panel
Release clovr-1.0-RC1
- New and improved web interface with support for adding data, running and monitoring pipelines, and configuring cloud support
- Improved support for the DIAG cloud
- Expanded output and published SOPs for the protocols, CloVR-microbe, CloVR-16S, CloVR-metagenomics
- Robustness and reliability improvements
- Improved API for programmatic access to the VM
- VDI and expanding virtual disk support for VirtualBox
Release clovr-beta 0.6
- Support for the DIAG cloud
- Jobs run locally can now leverage multiple processor cores
- Pipeline refinement
- Prototype web interface at http://<your.image.ip.address>/clovr/dashboard.html
Release clovr-beta 0.5
- Improved reliability, error reporting, and numerous bug fixes
- New graphical startup screen and admin console
- Updates to clovrMicrobe to match latest IGS Annotation Engine pipeline
- Assembly (454 and Illumina) and genome annotation components of clovrMicrobe can all be run as stand-alone pipelines
- Additional output and visualizations for 16s and metagenomics pipelines
- Improvements to auto-scaling of cloud instances for BLAST, microbe, and metagenomics pipelines
- Initial support for GBrowse
- Initial pipeline for comparative genomics that predicts orthologs and characterizes a bacterial pan-genome (clovrComparative)
- Initial pipeline for short read mapping using Bowtie or CrossBow (clovrMapping)
- Initial support and testing for the DIAG academic cloud running Nimbus
- Added documentation for the appliance API and web services that support provisioning virtual clusters, data transfer to/from the cloud, and executing workflows
- Initial support for CloVR as a platform to build custom VMs. The latest Qiime VM was built using CloVR.
Release clovr-beta 0.4
- Automated scaling of cluster instances for 454 and Illumina assembly and annotation pipelines (clovrMicrobe), clovrMetagenomics, and BLAST (clovrSearch)
- Updated pipelines, documentation, SOPs, walk-throughs, and a new screencast
- Improved support for VirtualBox
- Numerous bug fixes, improved test suite, automated build process
Release clovr-beta 0.3
- Bug fixes and improved documentation
Release clovr-beta 0.2
- New CloVR16S
- Updates to CloVRMicrobe for 454
- There were also numerous technical developments on the backend, including
- Upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04 (2.6.32.21 kernel)
- Recipes for building the VM with multiple editions: skeleton, base, standard
- Automated builds and testing in Hudson
- Standardization of the command line interface to vp-*
- Merge of CloVR pipeline components with Ergatis trunk
- Initial support for VirtualBox using OVF file
- New cloud authentication scheme. vp-add-credential