24.2 Galaxy Release (February 2025)

Highlights

A Wizard-like Export View for Workflow Invocations. The workflow invocation export process has been enhanced with a new wizard-like interface, making it more guided and user-friendly. This interface simplifies complex processes with many options, providing a step-by-step approach to exporting workflow invocations.

Workflow Editor Enhancements: Activity Bar and Undo Stack UI. The Activity Bar is now present in the Workflow Editor along side multiple interface improvements.

Masthead Revision and Activity Bar Improvements. The Galaxy masthead has been revised to achieve consistency and reduce redundancy, aligning its functionality with the Activity Bar.

Improved Navigation and Usability of Collection Builders. To guide users towards creating collections of the correct type, Galaxy now provides better navigation via buttons directly on data collection parameters. Users can create a collection with the required structure for the input, with pre-filtered items from their current history, also ensuring compatibility with required file extensions. Additionally, users can upload datasets directly to the collection builder.

Enhanced Workflow Invocation View. The Workflow Invocation View, introduced in the previous release has been significantly refined to improve the usability and visualization of workflow runs.

Before:

Steps show on the right, the progress bars are within the Overview tab

After:

Only the currently active step shows below, leaving full width for graph, progress bars in the Header

Display Metrics for Workflow Invocations. Galaxy now provides a Metrics tab in the Workflow Invocation View, allowing users to quickly summarize runtime, memory usage, and core allocation per invocation. This enhancement helps users better understand the resource usage of their workflows.

Libraries Modernization: Directory Dataset Picker. The dataset picker for user and import directories has been modernized, providing a more intuitive and user-friendly interface. Users can now easily import files or folders from their user directory or import directory into a library.

Live Reporting of Job Console Outputs. If enabled by the Galaxy administrators, it will now be possible to view live console output for running jobs. The job output will be available on the Job Information page where these logs have always been available for completed jobs.

ChatGXY - Job Error Wizard. With this release, we're excited to introduce ChatGXY — AI assistance built directly into the Galaxy interface. The first functionality being rolled out is an AI-driven job error diagnoser that automatically inspects errored jobs and provides actionable insights. Users on supported servers can access this feature through the Dataset Error interface, where ChatGXY offers targeted suggestions to help diagnose and resolve job errors quickly and efficiently.

Release Notes

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