v3.6.2 Release

Hello all,

This release includes a relatively large refactoring of the CLI to use built-in node.js arg parsing, but other than that, these are just small bugfixes and usability improvements. Please see release notes for more info

Downloads

• v3.6.2

To install JBrowse 2 for the web, you can download the link above, or you can use the JBrowse CLI to automatically download the latest version. See the JBrowse web quick start for more details.

yarn run v1.22.22 $ lerna-changelog --silent --silent --next-version 3.6.2

3.6.2 (2025-07-10)

🚀 Enhancement

• Other
  • #5102 Refactor CLI to use built-in nodejs parseArgs (@cmdcolin)
  • #5090 Optimize some MM tag parsing for performance and readability (@cmdcolin)
  • #5087 Better usage of dark mode on sequence track (@cmdcolin)
• core
  • #5095 Fix alpha rendering of SVG renderer box stroke/fill (@cmdcolin)
  • #5086 Add status message reporting for synteny view loading (@cmdcolin)

🐛 Bug Fix

• Other
  • #5100 Fix adding .pif file from dotplot and linear synteny import form (@cmdcolin)
  • #5098 Also migrate the linear-comparative-view rubberband tooltip to default MUI tooltip to avoid potential UI hangs (@cmdcolin)
  • #5097 Fix make pif on large files throwing ENOBUFS error in certain cases (@cmdcolin)
  • #5089 Additional type check to catch non-string MM tags from older Cell Ranger version BAM files (@haessar)
  • #5085 Fix rubberband getting stuck under certain conditions (@cmdcolin)
  • #5080 Fix crash on multi-wiggle importer on jbrowse-web (@cmdcolin)
• core
  • #5095 Fix alpha rendering of SVG renderer box stroke/fill (@cmdcolin)

📝 Documentation

• #5099 Update readme with short description of what JBrowse 2 is, new links, and publications (@cmdcolin)

🏠 Internal

• __mocks__, app-core, core
  • #5077 Bump generic-filehandle with mock for test environment (@cmdcolin)

Committers: 2

• Colin Diesh (@cmdcolin)
• Will Haese-Hill (@haessar) Done in 1.34s.