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1ARB change log
2
3Fixes for arb-6.0.3 (19 Nov 2015):
4
5 - fixes permission problems when multiple users share databases or ptservers (thx to Alan McCulloch)
6
7Fixes for arb-6.0.2 (8 Aug 2014):
8
9 - compile issues on Snow Leopard (OSX 10.6)
10 - merge Debian security fix for CVE-2008-5378
11 - small changes to build system for Debian
12 - add desktop integration files
13
14Fixes for arb-6.0.1 (22 Jul 2014):
15
16 - arb_parsimony
17   - skip unwanted automatic branchlength recalculations (e.g. by unfolding a group)
18   - corrected branchlength calculation for "Add marked partial species"
19   - dots were treated as gaps for protein sequences (now treated as 'X'; analog to DNA treating gaps as 'N'). thx to Yan Shi for detecting that problem!
20 - print
21   - preview failed (showed empty postscript file)
22   - print to file now always saves in user home
23 - raxml (import tree with bootstrap values)
24
25Major changes for arb-6.0 (4 Jun 2014):
26
27 - merge databases allows to
28   - merge from an existing database into the database loaded in ARB_NT
29   - merge to existing databases from the database loaded in ARB_NT
30 - ARB can now
31   - be restarted with another database and
32   - a second instance of ARB can be opened
33 - ARB_DIST
34   - Detect clusters of species with similar sequences (OTUs)
35   - allow automatic recalculation of matrix and/or tree whenever some parameter or
36     data changes (only makes sense for smaller species sets)
37   - extract distance matrix from tree
38 - Rewrote chimera check. Allows filtering
39 - added RNACMA (computes clusters of correlated positions)
40 - PT-Server
41   - changed behavior
42     - no longer report less hits for a part of a probe than for the probe itself (occurred at 3'-end of alignment)
43     - reports previously missing hits in joined genes
44     - reports more hits at 3'-end of alignment (when using mismatches the PT-server now reports possible
45       matches that go beyond the end of the sequence)
46     - dots in the middle of the alignment act like the sequence ends there
47     - minimum probe length reduced to 2 (was 6)
48     - allow up to 50% of probe to mismatch
49   - performance
50     - optimized memory-estimation (will build in fewer passes)
51     - uses any number of passes (not only 1, 5, 25, ...)
52     - allows to define used memory by setting environment variable ARB_MEMORY
53     - reduced memory needed to build/run ptserver (approx. 50%)
54     - reduced size of indexfile (.pt) to ~50%
55     - fast startup of existing ptservers
56   - probe design
57     - faster in many cases
58     - allow to design probes of length 8 (previously 10)
59     - allow to design probes with different lengths (specifying min/max length)
60     - fixed number of outgroup hits reported when decreasing temperature
61       (now each outgroup member only occurs once)
62     - show possible reasons why no probes could be designed
63   - probe match (allow any number of mismatches)
64   - next relative search
65     - can be restricted to column ranges (needs a PT-Server calculated from aligned sequences)
66     - corrected and improved scaling of relative scores
67     - more accurate scores (due to fixes in PT-Server; see below)
68     - faster in many cases
69   - show errors from ptserver build in ARB
70 - fast-aligner
71   - searches next-relatives based on selected column-block
72   - align multiple column-blocks based on SAI
73 - Rewrote alignment adaption during merge
74 - Insert/delete columns using a SAI to define affected columns
75 - ARB_EDIT4
76   - improved support for using multiple edit-windows
77   - smoother refreshes
78   - tweaked ORF display
79 - tree importer/exporter
80   - ARBs extended newick format (with bootstrap values) handled more restrictive now
81   - fixed several bugs; improved errors/warnings
82 - consensus trees
83   - calculate from multiple existing trees (also allows to merge not completely overlapping trees)
84   - fixed NJ-bootstrapping (no longer drops species)
85 - tree display
86   - Show brackets on open groups (dendrogram tree only)
87   - rewrote IRS (folded) display
88   - fixed tree key-bindings (mark, fold, ...)
89   - improved several tree-commands (move, rotate, spread, length, width)
90 - added a branch analysis tool
91   - groups several functions previously availiable via menuitems (e.g. mark long branches, etc.)
92   - added leaf-distance analysis
93 - other tree functionality
94   - treelist sortable now
95   - new beautify-tree modes (radial tree / according to other tree)
96   - function to remove marked/zombies from ALL trees
97   - create multifurcations (by branchlength/bootstrap limit)
98   - toggle 100% bootstrap values
99 - tweaked printing (interface, overlapping)
100 - if YOU edit a helpfile it will be automatically packed into an archive ready to be sent to ARB developers
101 - probe design:
102   - added LOAD to result window
103 - automation
104   - macro recording works in ARB client applications (ARB_EDIT4, ARB_PARS, ARB_MERGE, ..)
105   - arb_ntree can execute macro from command line
106   - added "Never ask again" to modal question boxes (for better compatibility with macros)
107   - a macro can be called for all marked species (once for each)
108   - macros can be nested (i.e. can call other macros)
109 - support for user-specific customization:
110   - of GDE menus (in ~/.arb_prop/gde)
111   - of import/export filters (in ~/.arb_prop/filter)
112 - ACI (some new commands, bugfixes)
113 - updated/added external tools:
114   - added FastTree (version 2.1.7)
115   - added MAFFT (version 7.055)
116   - added MrBayes (version 3.2.1)
117   - added MUSCLE (version 3.8.31)
118   - added PHYML (2013/07/08; also kept old version 2.4.5)
119   - added PROBCONS (version 1.12)
120   - updated RAxML (version 7.7.2)
121 - load/save for window specific settings (e.g. allows to share parts of configuration with other users)
122 - Support for mouse-wheel
123 - many unlisted bugfixes
124 - many internal refactorings
125
126
127Fixes for arb_5.5 (15 Nov 2012):
128
129 * arb_5.4 was broken (several external tools missing)
130
131
132Fixes for arb_5.4 (14 Nov 2012):
133
134 * make it obvious when probe matches are truncated. Truncate all hits beyond 1 million (was 100000)
135 * fixed realigner (better interaction with fields 'transl_table' and 'codon_start'; improved error handling)
136 * fixed several compilation issues (OSX; recent distro releases)
137
138
139Fixes for arb_5.3 (10 Nov 2011):
140
141 - bugfixes
142   - fixed wrong absolute/ecoli position reported for some designed probes
143   - decompression error handling (pt-server build issues)
144   - fixed 'codon_start' generated with wrong type
145   - fixed a buffer overflow in ACI
146   - report failures to write to /tmp
147 - changes
148   - markSpecies.pl:
149     mark by accession number
150     partial/ambiguous matches
151 - internal fixes
152   - compilation fixes for OSX
153   - some patches for debian version (removed refs to xview, textedit, removed molphy(protml))
154   - removed obsolete dependency from libXp
155
156
157Fixes for arb_5.2 (5 Sep 2010):
158
159 - bugfixes
160   - quicksave did silently do nothing (especially not save anything) if an error occurred
161   - ARB_EDIT4: crashed when using config with MANY unknown species
162   - ARB_SECEDIT: crashed when trying to paint strand w/o any base
163   - ARB_NTREE/ARB_PARS: crashed when clicking on inner tree node w/o groupinfo
164 - changes
165   - ARB uses xdg-open to display web-pages
166 - internal fixes
167   - karmic koala (gcc 4.4.1)
168   - installation script
169   - arb build process uses xsltproc instead of sablotron
170
171
172Fixes for arb_5.1 (1 Oct 2009):
173
174 - fixed a bug in 'Create species from consensus' (created sequence was corrupted)
175 - fixed 2 bugs in optimize DB (alignment w/o data, missing transaction)
176 - updated installation instructions, fixed install script, added OSX instruction (thx to Matt Cottrell)
177 - fixed broken demo.arb
178
179
180Major changes for arb_5.00 (4 Sep 2009):
181
182 - ARB 64bit version
183 - new genome importer
184 - search for next relatives improved (normal search and fast-aligner)
185   - new parameters to precise search
186   - improved speed
187   - partial sequence reach normal scores
188 - search&query
189   - supports regular expressions and ACI
190   - track hit information
191   - result sorting
192 - Nameservers with add.field have to be started with default value
193   You need to correct parameter -f in lib/arb_tcp.dat (according to lib/arb_tcp_org.dat)
194 - multiple PT-servers may be used in parallel
195 - fixed multiprobe
196 - type-conversion for DB fields
197 - SILVA compatible import filters
198 - Newick tree export:
199   - optionally save in human-readable format (big)
200   - closer to newick standard format (quoting style, comment, special chars in data)
201 - Upgraded RAxML to 7.0.3 (many features now usable from ARB interface)
202 - Fixed sequence quality calculation
203 - Secondary structures for proteins (DSSP)
204 - Distance matrix (arb_dist): mark by distance to selected
205 - ARB core
206   - many bugfixes and improvements to reliability
207   - faster sorting (general speedup)
208   - improved sequence compression (avoid worse trees, better ratio)
209   - improved handling of temporary files (permission/removal)
210   - prints backtraces in userland
211   - regular expression are POSIX standard now
212 - macro record/playback
213   - fixed several bugs
214   - you need to re-record your old macros!
215 - GUI:
216   - disabled auto-focus, you need to click now
217   - auto-raise windows on access
218 - Minor things:
219   - Ubuntu: packet installation for ARB
220   - Fixed novice/expert mode
221   - Mark deep/degenerated branches
222   - Increased NDS entries
223 - up-to-date Mac port (thx to Matt Cottrell)
224
225Major changes in ARB 07.12.07org (7 Dec 2007):
226
227 - rewrote secondary structure editor
228 - Sequence quality check
229 - Nameserver may use one field additional to 'acc' (useful to keep multiple species with same acc)
230 - tweaked base frequency filter generation
231 - Normal export (not using readseq) improved:
232   - supports filters and gap removal
233   - optimized for big amount of data
234   - reworked export filters
235 - Display translation with different ORFs in EDIT4
236 - ARB exports in FIG 3.2 format (optionally in colors). Thanks to Elmar Pruesse.
237 - added PHYML 2.4.5 (thanks to Stephane Guidon for the permission to distribute that great tool)
238 - more compact display in EDIT4
239 - capable to use iso10646 fonts
240 - supports various gcc versions (2.95.3 - 4.1.1)
241 - fixed a bug in DB optimization (occurred when fields had bigger protection than current)
242 - Bootstrap circles may be displayed as ellipses; upper size limit configurable; uses
243   different color for size-limited circles; fixed xfig-export-bug
244 - Allows Branchlength <-> Bootstrap value transfer (lossy!)
245 - fixed several scaling bugs in "folded tree"-mode
246 - improved import-filter error-messages
247 - NDS-display of groups (e.g. in tree) is now handled by ACI-command 'taxonomy'. This gives
248   several new possibilities:
249   - export taxonomy via 'Export NDS list'
250   - display taxonomy in Editor etc.
251   - display of cascaded taxonomies
252   - display taxonomy of tree_1 in tree_2
253   - allows to write taxonomy into database field of species
254   - compare taxonomies of two trees
255   - ...
256 - ACI:
257   - many new ACI commands
258   - unified handling of binary ACI-operators
259   - tracing of ACI actions for debugging purpose
260 - ARB Neighbour joining:
261   - bootstrap limit configurable
262   - bugfix: when aborting bootstrap calculation, sometimes no tree was generated
263 - EDIT4:
264   - added unalign right (block-op)
265   - added 'Save loaded properties'
266 - GENE MAP:
267   - multiple views possible at the same time
268   - origin now at "12 o'clock"
269   - implemented 'jump to gene'
270 - tweaked file selection
271 - Enhanced Search Depth for Probe Match --> max 20 MM
272 - CLUSTALW:
273   - separated menus for fast and slow alignment
274   - most parameters accessible from inside ARB now
275 - upgraded to PHYLIP 3.6 (adds PROML)
276 - external programs may be called parallel (e.g. several treeing programs)
277 - fixed bugs in protml and integration of protml
278 - rewrote ASCII database import
279 - arb_repair for databases of any size (script for database repair)
280 - fixed bug in data compression
281 - increased internal cache size (alignments up to 400.000bp possible w/o performance collapse)
282 - ARBparsimony: increase hardcoded species limit (50.000 -> 250.000)
283 - GDE menus cleanup
284 - translation/re-alignment tweaked
285 - unalign right (EDIT4)
286 - visualization of SAIs in Probe Match Results
287 - changed formatting of probe match results; increase # of allowed matches to 100.000;
288   warn if results are truncated
289 - PT server for genes
290 - Probe design performance optimized
291 - fixed NEXUS export format
292 - exports group names into Newick format
293 - import XML tree files
294 - help for external tools now properly shown inside ARB
295
296Major changes in Beta 2003_08_22 (22 Aug 2003):
297
298 - automatic formatting of alignments
299 - SECEDIT may use EDIT4 colors
300 - fixed bootstrapping (DNAPARS, PROTPARS, PROTML(experimental!))
301 - updated clustalw to version 1.83
302 - Restore window sizes for ALL windows (too small sizes are ignored)
303 - new algorithm to add partial sequences to an existing tree
304 - PROT-parsimony was completely redesigned and works now most similar to DNA/RNA-parsimony
305 - Top area of ARB_NTREE may be reduced to maximize display area
306 - All arb menus may be detached (click dashed line at top of menu)
307 - visualization of SAIs (as background color behind Sequences)
308 - ARB_EDIT4 may save/use alignment-specific and alignment-type-specific properties
309 - PT-server occupies more memory => does less passes; more diagnostic output
310 - small changes to status window (unhide behavior/time estimation)
311 - menus and menu-hotkeys reorganized
312 - colored buttons in color config windows
313 - alignment concatenation (e.g. several different genes)
314 - merging data of similar species (according selected database field)
315 - keyboard commands for ARB_NTREE (mark/unmark/invert, collapse/expand)
316 - expanded sellists
317 - save/load fixed for multi probes
318 - Binary SAIs are editable in ARB_EDIT4
319 - Information windows are detachable (allows to have multiple windows showing different items)
320 - Scanning for hidden/unknown database fields improved and separated;
321   possibility to remove unused fields.
322 - new tabbed format in 'Export NDS' and 'Export matrix' (useful for star-calc/excel/etc.)
323 - updated fastDNAml to 1.2.2
324 - added AxML (accelerated fastDNAml 1.2.2)
325 - Field transfer definitions for exporting gene-species
326 - File Selection: - recursive search available
327 - The ARB_NTREE macro recording/execution has been fixed
328 - Colorize species (see demo.arb)
329 - Fixed missing-character-bug in Xfig, Print and Edit4-Info-Display
330 - 'IslandHopper' -- a new integrated aligner (beta)
331 - Many improvements and bugfixes to secondary structure editor:
332   - highlighting of search (i.e for probes) like in EDIT4
333   - interactive constraint editing (stretch/compress)
334   - probe info
335   - editing secondary structure in XFIG now possible
336   - visualization of SAIs
337 - import reads Unix, DOS, and MAC linefeeds
338 - NTREE/SAI/Etc/GnuPlot: calls gnuplot directly; more plotting features; basic help
339 - tree and sequence export to XML ( DTDs are provided in ./lib/dtd )
340   (reloading of these XML files is planned for the future)
341 - fixed problems with phylip-tree import/export (bootstrap values,comments,...)
342 - search in all database fields possible ('[all fields]')
343 - up to 10 quicksaves are kept
344 - new ACI functions: upper, lower, caps, eval
345 - variables for import filter programming
346 - extract gene-species: creates acc; extraction to existing alignments
347 - sequence of selected gene is mirrored in ARB_EDIT4/local_signature
348   (=> selected gene can be highlighted in primary editor)
349 - PCR primer-design for single genes
350 - when selecting a gene, the corresponding gene-species is selected (if found)
351 - save configuration for several windows (e.g. Search&Query, WWW, NDS, ...)
352 - file selection box in import window
353 - mark item with double click works in all search&query windows
354 - User masks: create new; 'edit enable' and 'marked' toggles (like in info window)
355 - Fixed command line help for all Arb-modules
356 - Fixed problem parsing fonts (should fix display problems with default fonts)
357 - Mark mode now works in list-view as well (ARB_NTREE)
358 - Fixed appearance of 'tiny little boxes' (everywhere)
359 - Redesign of ARB help:
360     - a HTML version is in $ARBHOME/lib/help_html
361     - a text version is in $ARBHOME/lib/help (like before, but now generated)
362
363Major changes in Beta 2001_11_07 (7 Nov 2001):
364
365 - design probes to maximum length of 60 nucleotides
366 - fastAligner1.03 bug fixed (chooses best match now in 'auto search' mode)
367 - import default changed to foreign data format, ali name '16s'
368 - printing of multi-page-trees works again
369 - implemented user defineable masks to access database fields
370 - fixed bugs in pt-server (lockup, unknown species just after building pt-server)
371 - improved performance during pt-server-build
372 - several programs coming along with ARB where updated (PHYLIP,...)
373 - reads EMBL genom files
374 - support for experiments (genom databases only)
375
376Major changes in Beta 2001_07_24 (24 Jul 2001):
377
378 - basic support for genoms (Gene Map, reads Genebank files)
379 - ported to libc6
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