1.3.1

Bug fixes:

• Fix for checking kubectl version

1.3.0

Improvements:

• Upgrade to BLAST+ 2.16.0, including runtime improvements to blastp, blastx, and psiblast

Bug fixes:

• Better tracking of cloud resource IDs to facilitate resource clean up in case of errors
• Use specified AWS region when getting available instance types

1.2.0

Improvements:

• Upgrade to BLAST+ 2.15.0, including improved performance for taxonomy limited searches and automatic selection of threading model
• Automatically select client vs. cloud query splitting based on query file size
• Support for kubernetes versions 1.26 and greater
• New ElasticBLAST batch lengths for threading by query

Bug fixes:

• Fixed bug that led to timeouts in GCP waiting for the persistent volume claim (PVC) to bind
• Improve error message if -entrez_query option is given

1.1.0

Improvements:

• Default batch sizes for blastn and dc-megablast lead to improved runtimes
• Improve AWS quota check based on the number of vCPUs per instance
• Improved logging of dependent tools

Bug fixes:

• Fixed AWS API calls to select instances on all AWS regions

1.0.0

Note to ElasticBLAST users on GCP

ElasticBLAST versions prior to 1.0.0 will stop working after January 31, 2023 because they rely on version 1.21 of kubernetes, which will reach its end of life on the Google Kubernetes Engine on that date. Please upgrade your installation of ElasticBLAST to its latest version.

Improvements:

• ElasticBLAST on AWS now defaults to the faster and cheaper EBS gp3 disk type
• ElasticBLAST on GCP now supports all of the versions of kubernetes offered by Google Kubernetes Engine
• ElasticBLAST on GCP defaults to the stable version of kubernetes offered by Google Kubernetes Engine

Bug fixes:

• ElasticBLAST uses GCP's recommended way of dealing with read/write persistent disk
• Long user names no longer cause errors in AWS
• Fixed error caused by APIs not being enabled in GCP

0.2.7

Improvements:

• Query splitting module supports streaming data from cloud buckets
• Improved AWS region validation

Bug fixes:

• Fixed problem when AWS_DEFAULT_REGION is not set
• Bug fixes for --dry-run mode
• --batch-len command line option is recognized

0.2.6

New features:

• A new config parameter cloud-providers/gke-version to select Google Kubernetes Engine version, defaults to 1.21

Improvements:

• GCP project config parameter is now optional. If missing elastic-blast will use CLOUDSDK_CORE_PROJECT environment variable or the default GCP project set in gcloud config.
• GCP zone config parameter now defaults to us-east4-b
• Improved error message when persistent disk size exceeds user’s quota

Bug fixes:

• Fixed a persistent disk problem in GCP
• Invalid janitor schedule string does not cause resource leak and is properly reported

0.2.5

Improvements:

• elastic-blast status always reports BLAST errors
• BLAST+ updated to version 2.13.0

0.2.4

Improvements:

• elastic-blast status updated to report when ElasticBLAST is submitting jobs to the cloud

0.2.3

Bug fixes:

• Fix bug that leads to invalid GKE cluster names