Changelog: Seqera Cloud

Feature updates and improvements​

Compute environments​

• Released Google Cloud VM in public preview.

Feature updates and improvements​

Compute environments​

• Added a Fusion usage monitoring Dashboard.

Studios​

• Added support for per-session user-defined environment variables.
• Added Docker-in-Docker configuration method.

Audit logs​

• Added AuditLog for dataset operations.

Launchpad​

• Added support for providing launch form values through URL query parameters during pipeline launch.

Workflows​

• Added Wave and Fusion info to executor details on the Run details page.
• Added embedded Fusion and Wave metadata to workflows based on existing data passed in the TraceBeginRequest.
• Added Aborted tasks counts colouring to the Processes table.

UI/UX​

• Added credits usage progress bar to Usage overview.
• Added download date to usage_report CSV download filename.
• Added support for a custom value label for the ProgressBarLimitComponent.

General​

• Added ap-southeast-2 to supported regions in Platform.
• Renamed Pipeline work directory to Work directory in compute environment forms.
• Bumped google-cloud-logging to 3.11.5.

Bug fixes​

Workflows​

• Fixed an issue where execution logs did not display for Google Batch runs.

Feature updates and improvements​

Workflows​

• Added aborted status task counts to the progress response when finalizing a workflow.

Launchpad​

• Improved launch parameters handling to completely override existing parameters during a revision or config profile change.

General​

• The system now supports filtering by workspaceId when downloading the credits usage CSV file.

Feature updates and improvements​

Studios​

• Added Conda helper text to the Conda packages field in Add new Studio > General config.
• Added CONNECT_CE parameter to activate Spot reclamation watcher in the Connect client.

Compute environments​

• Added P5, P5e, P6-b200, I7i, C8gd, M8gd and R8gd EC2 families that support NVMe disk. Learn more on the AWS What's New page.

General​

• Updated the PLUGIN_LIST environment variable for Nextflow 25.04.x to include the K8s plugin when needed.

Bug fixes​

Launchpad​

• Fixed an issue where removed/modified parameters were persisting on pipeline relaunch.

Bug fixes​

General​

• Fixed an issue in Firefox where login resulted in an infinite loop in the browser.

Version bump​

• Bumped Nextflow launcher to 25.04.x.

Seqera Compute​

Seqera Compute is now in public preview. Seqera Compute is a fully managed, optimized compute environment which eliminates infrastructure complexity by automating environment setup, resource provisioning, scaling, and optimization.

Platform interface updates​

Pipeline run details​

Refreshed the pipeline run details page with improvements such as:

• Clear, dynamic view of pipeline execution in real time via a progress bar.
• A dedicated Run info tab with a centralized view of run metadata and status details.
• Improved navigation tabs for Tasks, Logs, Metrics, and Containers.

New Seqera Platform sidebar​

Replaced the Platform top navigation with a sidebar for improved navigation.

AWS Cloud compute environment​

The new AWS Cloud compute environment supports faster startup time, simplified configuration, and fewer AWS dependencies. Using this compute environment, Studios can now be launched on Spot instances. The AWS Cloud compute environment is best suited to run Studios and small to medium-sized pipelines. It offers more predictable compute pricing, given the fixed instance type. It spins up a standalone EC2 instance and executes a Nextflow pipeline or Studio session with a local executor on the EC2 machine. At the end of the execution, the instance is terminated.

API documentation improvements​

Updated the Seqera Platform API documentation. Featuring overview pages with parameter and request body tables, categorized by Platform entity (compute environments, pipelines, etc.), the documentation now provides easier reference and detailed request examples.

Other new features and improvements​

Compute environments​

• Added Fusion snapshots to AWS Batch.
• Enabled DRAINING status for Spot instance reclamation. When an instance is in DRAINING status, no new task can be scheduled on it. See Configuring Amazon ECS Linux container instances to receive Spot Instance notices for more information.
• AWS Cloud compute environment defaults to the public Seqera AMI when not specifying an AMI ID during compute environment creation.

Studios​

• Added Spot option for AWS Cloud compute environment.

Pipelines​

• Supported markdown rendering for Nextflow object field help_text and description properties.

Feature updates and improvements​

• Fusion
  • Added Fusion Snapshots support in AWS Batch compute environments, enabling Fusion to automatically restore jobs interrupted by AWS Spot instance reclamation. See Fusion Snapshots for more information.

Bug fixes​

Workflows​

• Fixed container table pagination.
• Made task-level containers tab visible only when containers are available.

Launch form​

• Fixed a launch form issue with eager parameter keyword interpolation.

Feature updates and improvements​

Data Explorer​

• You can now drag and drop multiple folders or files to upload them to your cloud bucket, or you can select Upload, then select multiple files to upload.

Compute environments​

• Changed the default for the single VM compute environment to the Seqera-optimized AMI. When not specifying an AMI during compute environment creation, the system defaults to the Seqera-optimized AMI.

Workflows​

• Added a more detailed warning for workflow cleanup issues that are related to access restrictions to the AWS Batch compute environment.
• Added task status badges with icons to the workflow run tasks table.

Launchpad​

• Added support for array type parameters in the Launch form.
• Implemented support for multiple extension dataset parameters in the input form.
• Show Nextflow config parameters that are binary expressions in the Launch form.

API​

• Added azure_entra to the provider list of credentials in the OpenAPI spec.

General​

• Delete pipeline secrets in the user context from the provider.
• Switch logs, secrets-manager, marketplace-meter, and simple-email dependencies to AWS SDK v2.
• Switched AWS S3 to SDK v2.

Bug fixes​

General​

• Modify cache expiration policy to resolve "Connection pool shut down" error with new AWS SDK v2 clients.

Workflows​

• Fixed an issue where the workflow details page displayed the Edit Labels button even when there were no labels, but the workflow had attached resource labels.

Launchpad​

• Fixed an issue where the Quick Launch form did not select the primary compute environment by default.

Feature updates and improvements​

Compute environments​

• Updated the default Azure Batch Ubuntu image to SKU 22.04 to avoid issues with the existing image (SKU 20.04), which will be deprecated after April 23, 2025. For more information about the deprecation, see https://github.com/Azure/Batch/issues/174.

Feature updates and improvements​

Studios​

• Private sessions: When adding a new session, the number of concurrent connections can now be defined in General Config > Collaboration.
• Dynamic Studio templates: Added labels to indicate the status of support (e.g., Recommended, Deprecated) for a Studio template version. Users can now also switch the Studio's base template image when starting a session as new.

Pipelines​

• Updated WfManifest class to include the new icon property introduced in Nextflow.
• Added a new migration file to add the new icon column into all the tables of entities that use the WfManifest class as @Embedded property.
• Supported image upload in the pipeline import and pipeline update forms for use as pipeline logos.

Audit logs​

• Audit log update: The system now logs pipeline edit events.

Workflows​

• Added totalProcesses count to workflow progress responses.
• New workflow job monitoring collects and publishes Platform metrics.

Compute environments​

• Switched AWS Batch compute environment dependencies to AWS SDK v2.

Bug fixes​

Studios​

• Fixed a bug where resource labels erroneously allowed users with the maintain role to edit them when starting an existing Studio.

Compute environments​

• Fixed a potential NullPointerException on code related to Google Batch, where the method is expected to return null.

UI/UX​

• Fixed an issue where users could not remove the organization logo.