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1ARB change log
2
3Fixes for arb-6.0.4 (2 May 2016):
4
5 - fixes for OSX build (SIP, accepted compilers)
6
7Fixes for arb-6.0.3 (19 Nov 2015):
8
9 - fixes permission problems when multiple users share databases or ptservers (thx to Alan McCulloch)
10
11Fixes for arb-6.0.2 (8 Aug 2014):
12
13 - compile issues on Snow Leopard (OSX 10.6)
14 - merge Debian security fix for CVE-2008-5378
15 - small changes to build system for Debian
16 - add desktop integration files
17
18Fixes for arb-6.0.1 (22 Jul 2014):
19
20 - arb_parsimony
21   - skip unwanted automatic branchlength recalculations (e.g. by unfolding a group)
22   - corrected branchlength calculation for "Add marked partial species"
23   - 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!
24 - print
25   - preview failed (showed empty postscript file)
26   - print to file now always saves in user home
27 - raxml (import tree with bootstrap values)
28
29Major changes for arb-6.0 (4 Jun 2014):
30
31 - merge databases allows to
32   - merge from an existing database into the database loaded in ARB_NT
33   - merge to existing databases from the database loaded in ARB_NT
34 - ARB can now
35   - be restarted with another database and
36   - a second instance of ARB can be opened
37 - ARB_DIST
38   - Detect clusters of species with similar sequences (OTUs)
39   - allow automatic recalculation of matrix and/or tree whenever some parameter or
40     data changes (only makes sense for smaller species sets)
41   - extract distance matrix from tree
42 - Rewrote chimera check. Allows filtering
43 - added RNACMA (computes clusters of correlated positions)
44 - PT-Server
45   - changed behavior
46     - no longer report less hits for a part of a probe than for the probe itself (occurred at 3'-end of alignment)
47     - reports previously missing hits in joined genes
48     - reports more hits at 3'-end of alignment (when using mismatches the PT-server now reports possible
49       matches that go beyond the end of the sequence)
50     - dots in the middle of the alignment act like the sequence ends there
51     - minimum probe length reduced to 2 (was 6)
52     - allow up to 50% of probe to mismatch
53   - performance
54     - optimized memory-estimation (will build in fewer passes)
55     - uses any number of passes (not only 1, 5, 25, ...)
56     - allows to define used memory by setting environment variable ARB_MEMORY
57     - reduced memory needed to build/run ptserver (approx. 50%)
58     - reduced size of indexfile (.pt) to ~50%
59     - fast startup of existing ptservers
60   - probe design
61     - faster in many cases
62     - allow to design probes of length 8 (previously 10)
63     - allow to design probes with different lengths (specifying min/max length)
64     - fixed number of outgroup hits reported when decreasing temperature
65       (now each outgroup member only occurs once)
66     - show possible reasons why no probes could be designed
67   - probe match (allow any number of mismatches)
68   - next relative search
69     - can be restricted to column ranges (needs a PT-Server calculated from aligned sequences)
70     - corrected and improved scaling of relative scores
71     - more accurate scores (due to fixes in PT-Server; see below)
72     - faster in many cases
73   - show errors from ptserver build in ARB
74 - fast-aligner
75   - searches next-relatives based on selected column-block
76   - align multiple column-blocks based on SAI
77 - Rewrote alignment adaption during merge
78 - Insert/delete columns using a SAI to define affected columns
79 - ARB_EDIT4
80   - improved support for using multiple edit-windows
81   - smoother refreshes
82   - tweaked ORF display
83 - tree importer/exporter
84   - ARBs extended newick format (with bootstrap values) handled more restrictive now
85   - fixed several bugs; improved errors/warnings
86 - consensus trees
87   - calculate from multiple existing trees (also allows to merge not completely overlapping trees)
88   - fixed NJ-bootstrapping (no longer drops species)
89 - tree display
90   - Show brackets on open groups (dendrogram tree only)
91   - rewrote IRS (folded) display
92   - fixed tree key-bindings (mark, fold, ...)
93   - improved several tree-commands (move, rotate, spread, length, width)
94 - added a branch analysis tool
95   - groups several functions previously availiable via menuitems (e.g. mark long branches, etc.)
96   - added leaf-distance analysis
97 - other tree functionality
98   - treelist sortable now
99   - new beautify-tree modes (radial tree / according to other tree)
100   - function to remove marked/zombies from ALL trees
101   - create multifurcations (by branchlength/bootstrap limit)
102   - toggle 100% bootstrap values
103 - tweaked printing (interface, overlapping)
104 - if YOU edit a helpfile it will be automatically packed into an archive ready to be sent to ARB developers
105 - probe design:
106   - added LOAD to result window
107 - automation
108   - macro recording works in ARB client applications (ARB_EDIT4, ARB_PARS, ARB_MERGE, ..)
109   - arb_ntree can execute macro from command line
110   - added "Never ask again" to modal question boxes (for better compatibility with macros)
111   - a macro can be called for all marked species (once for each)
112   - macros can be nested (i.e. can call other macros)
113 - support for user-specific customization:
114   - of GDE menus (in ~/.arb_prop/gde)
115   - of import/export filters (in ~/.arb_prop/filter)
116 - ACI (some new commands, bugfixes)
117 - updated/added external tools:
118   - added FastTree (version 2.1.7)
119   - added MAFFT (version 7.055)
120   - added MrBayes (version 3.2.1)
121   - added MUSCLE (version 3.8.31)
122   - added PHYML (2013/07/08; also kept old version 2.4.5)
123   - added PROBCONS (version 1.12)
124   - updated RAxML (version 7.7.2)
125 - load/save for window specific settings (e.g. allows to share parts of configuration with other users)
126 - Support for mouse-wheel
127 - many unlisted bugfixes
128 - many internal refactorings
129
130
131Fixes for arb_5.5 (15 Nov 2012):
132
133 * arb_5.4 was broken (several external tools missing)
134
135
136Fixes for arb_5.4 (14 Nov 2012):
137
138 * make it obvious when probe matches are truncated. Truncate all hits beyond 1 million (was 100000)
139 * fixed realigner (better interaction with fields 'transl_table' and 'codon_start'; improved error handling)
140 * fixed several compilation issues (OSX; recent distro releases)
141
142
143Fixes for arb_5.3 (10 Nov 2011):
144
145 - bugfixes
146   - fixed wrong absolute/ecoli position reported for some designed probes
147   - decompression error handling (pt-server build issues)
148   - fixed 'codon_start' generated with wrong type
149   - fixed a buffer overflow in ACI
150   - report failures to write to /tmp
151 - changes
152   - markSpecies.pl:
153     mark by accession number
154     partial/ambiguous matches
155 - internal fixes
156   - compilation fixes for OSX
157   - some patches for debian version (removed refs to xview, textedit, removed molphy(protml))
158   - removed obsolete dependency from libXp
159
160
161Fixes for arb_5.2 (5 Sep 2010):
162
163 - bugfixes
164   - quicksave did silently do nothing (especially not save anything) if an error occurred
165   - ARB_EDIT4: crashed when using config with MANY unknown species
166   - ARB_SECEDIT: crashed when trying to paint strand w/o any base
167   - ARB_NTREE/ARB_PARS: crashed when clicking on inner tree node w/o groupinfo
168 - changes
169   - ARB uses xdg-open to display web-pages
170 - internal fixes
171   - karmic koala (gcc 4.4.1)
172   - installation script
173   - arb build process uses xsltproc instead of sablotron
174
175
176Fixes for arb_5.1 (1 Oct 2009):
177
178 - fixed a bug in 'Create species from consensus' (created sequence was corrupted)
179 - fixed 2 bugs in optimize DB (alignment w/o data, missing transaction)
180 - updated installation instructions, fixed install script, added OSX instruction (thx to Matt Cottrell)
181 - fixed broken demo.arb
182
183
184Major changes for arb_5.00 (4 Sep 2009):
185
186 - ARB 64bit version
187 - new genome importer
188 - search for next relatives improved (normal search and fast-aligner)
189   - new parameters to precise search
190   - improved speed
191   - partial sequence reach normal scores
192 - search&query
193   - supports regular expressions and ACI
194   - track hit information
195   - result sorting
196 - Nameservers with add.field have to be started with default value
197   You need to correct parameter -f in lib/arb_tcp.dat (according to lib/arb_tcp_org.dat)
198 - multiple PT-servers may be used in parallel
199 - fixed multiprobe
200 - type-conversion for DB fields
201 - SILVA compatible import filters
202 - Newick tree export:
203   - optionally save in human-readable format (big)
204   - closer to newick standard format (quoting style, comment, special chars in data)
205 - Upgraded RAxML to 7.0.3 (many features now usable from ARB interface)
206 - Fixed sequence quality calculation
207 - Secondary structures for proteins (DSSP)
208 - Distance matrix (arb_dist): mark by distance to selected
209 - ARB core
210   - many bugfixes and improvements to reliability
211   - faster sorting (general speedup)
212   - improved sequence compression (avoid worse trees, better ratio)
213   - improved handling of temporary files (permission/removal)
214   - prints backtraces in userland
215   - regular expression are POSIX standard now
216 - macro record/playback
217   - fixed several bugs
218   - you need to re-record your old macros!
219 - GUI:
220   - disabled auto-focus, you need to click now
221   - auto-raise windows on access
222 - Minor things:
223   - Ubuntu: packet installation for ARB
224   - Fixed novice/expert mode
225   - Mark deep/degenerated branches
226   - Increased NDS entries
227 - up-to-date Mac port (thx to Matt Cottrell)
228
229Major changes in ARB 07.12.07org (7 Dec 2007):
230
231 - rewrote secondary structure editor
232 - Sequence quality check
233 - Nameserver may use one field additional to 'acc' (useful to keep multiple species with same acc)
234 - tweaked base frequency filter generation
235 - Normal export (not using readseq) improved:
236   - supports filters and gap removal
237   - optimized for big amount of data
238   - reworked export filters
239 - Display translation with different ORFs in EDIT4
240 - ARB exports in FIG 3.2 format (optionally in colors). Thanks to Elmar Pruesse.
241 - added PHYML 2.4.5 (thanks to Stephane Guidon for the permission to distribute that great tool)
242 - more compact display in EDIT4
243 - capable to use iso10646 fonts
244 - supports various gcc versions (2.95.3 - 4.1.1)
245 - fixed a bug in DB optimization (occurred when fields had bigger protection than current)
246 - Bootstrap circles may be displayed as ellipses; upper size limit configurable; uses
247   different color for size-limited circles; fixed xfig-export-bug
248 - Allows Branchlength <-> Bootstrap value transfer (lossy!)
249 - fixed several scaling bugs in "folded tree"-mode
250 - improved import-filter error-messages
251 - NDS-display of groups (e.g. in tree) is now handled by ACI-command 'taxonomy'. This gives
252   several new possibilities:
253   - export taxonomy via 'Export NDS list'
254   - display taxonomy in Editor etc.
255   - display of cascaded taxonomies
256   - display taxonomy of tree_1 in tree_2
257   - allows to write taxonomy into database field of species
258   - compare taxonomies of two trees
259   - ...
260 - ACI:
261   - many new ACI commands
262   - unified handling of binary ACI-operators
263   - tracing of ACI actions for debugging purpose
264 - ARB Neighbour joining:
265   - bootstrap limit configurable
266   - bugfix: when aborting bootstrap calculation, sometimes no tree was generated
267 - EDIT4:
268   - added unalign right (block-op)
269   - added 'Save loaded properties'
270 - GENE MAP:
271   - multiple views possible at the same time
272   - origin now at "12 o'clock"
273   - implemented 'jump to gene'
274 - tweaked file selection
275 - Enhanced Search Depth for Probe Match --> max 20 MM
276 - CLUSTALW:
277   - separated menus for fast and slow alignment
278   - most parameters accessible from inside ARB now
279 - upgraded to PHYLIP 3.6 (adds PROML)
280 - external programs may be called parallel (e.g. several treeing programs)
281 - fixed bugs in protml and integration of protml
282 - rewrote ASCII database import
283 - arb_repair for databases of any size (script for database repair)
284 - fixed bug in data compression
285 - increased internal cache size (alignments up to 400.000bp possible w/o performance collapse)
286 - ARBparsimony: increase hardcoded species limit (50.000 -> 250.000)
287 - GDE menus cleanup
288 - translation/re-alignment tweaked
289 - unalign right (EDIT4)
290 - visualization of SAIs in Probe Match Results
291 - changed formatting of probe match results; increase # of allowed matches to 100.000;
292   warn if results are truncated
293 - PT server for genes
294 - Probe design performance optimized
295 - fixed NEXUS export format
296 - exports group names into Newick format
297 - import XML tree files
298 - help for external tools now properly shown inside ARB
299
300Major changes in Beta 2003_08_22 (22 Aug 2003):
301
302 - automatic formatting of alignments
303 - SECEDIT may use EDIT4 colors
304 - fixed bootstrapping (DNAPARS, PROTPARS, PROTML(experimental!))
305 - updated clustalw to version 1.83
306 - Restore window sizes for ALL windows (too small sizes are ignored)
307 - new algorithm to add partial sequences to an existing tree
308 - PROT-parsimony was completely redesigned and works now most similar to DNA/RNA-parsimony
309 - Top area of ARB_NTREE may be reduced to maximize display area
310 - All arb menus may be detached (click dashed line at top of menu)
311 - visualization of SAIs (as background color behind Sequences)
312 - ARB_EDIT4 may save/use alignment-specific and alignment-type-specific properties
313 - PT-server occupies more memory => does less passes; more diagnostic output
314 - small changes to status window (unhide behavior/time estimation)
315 - menus and menu-hotkeys reorganized
316 - colored buttons in color config windows
317 - alignment concatenation (e.g. several different genes)
318 - merging data of similar species (according selected database field)
319 - keyboard commands for ARB_NTREE (mark/unmark/invert, collapse/expand)
320 - expanded sellists
321 - save/load fixed for multi probes
322 - Binary SAIs are editable in ARB_EDIT4
323 - Information windows are detachable (allows to have multiple windows showing different items)
324 - Scanning for hidden/unknown database fields improved and separated;
325   possibility to remove unused fields.
326 - new tabbed format in 'Export NDS' and 'Export matrix' (useful for star-calc/excel/etc.)
327 - updated fastDNAml to 1.2.2
328 - added AxML (accelerated fastDNAml 1.2.2)
329 - Field transfer definitions for exporting gene-species
330 - File Selection: - recursive search available
331 - The ARB_NTREE macro recording/execution has been fixed
332 - Colorize species (see demo.arb)
333 - Fixed missing-character-bug in Xfig, Print and Edit4-Info-Display
334 - 'IslandHopper' -- a new integrated aligner (beta)
335 - Many improvements and bugfixes to secondary structure editor:
336   - highlighting of search (i.e for probes) like in EDIT4
337   - interactive constraint editing (stretch/compress)
338   - probe info
339   - editing secondary structure in XFIG now possible
340   - visualization of SAIs
341 - import reads Unix, DOS, and MAC linefeeds
342 - NTREE/SAI/Etc/GnuPlot: calls gnuplot directly; more plotting features; basic help
343 - tree and sequence export to XML ( DTDs are provided in ./lib/dtd )
344   (reloading of these XML files is planned for the future)
345 - fixed problems with phylip-tree import/export (bootstrap values,comments,...)
346 - search in all database fields possible ('[all fields]')
347 - up to 10 quicksaves are kept
348 - new ACI functions: upper, lower, caps, eval
349 - variables for import filter programming
350 - extract gene-species: creates acc; extraction to existing alignments
351 - sequence of selected gene is mirrored in ARB_EDIT4/local_signature
352   (=> selected gene can be highlighted in primary editor)
353 - PCR primer-design for single genes
354 - when selecting a gene, the corresponding gene-species is selected (if found)
355 - save configuration for several windows (e.g. Search&Query, WWW, NDS, ...)
356 - file selection box in import window
357 - mark item with double click works in all search&query windows
358 - User masks: create new; 'edit enable' and 'marked' toggles (like in info window)
359 - Fixed command line help for all Arb-modules
360 - Fixed problem parsing fonts (should fix display problems with default fonts)
361 - Mark mode now works in list-view as well (ARB_NTREE)
362 - Fixed appearance of 'tiny little boxes' (everywhere)
363 - Redesign of ARB help:
364     - a HTML version is in $ARBHOME/lib/help_html
365     - a text version is in $ARBHOME/lib/help (like before, but now generated)
366
367Major changes in Beta 2001_11_07 (7 Nov 2001):
368
369 - design probes to maximum length of 60 nucleotides
370 - fastAligner1.03 bug fixed (chooses best match now in 'auto search' mode)
371 - import default changed to foreign data format, ali name '16s'
372 - printing of multi-page-trees works again
373 - implemented user defineable masks to access database fields
374 - fixed bugs in pt-server (lockup, unknown species just after building pt-server)
375 - improved performance during pt-server-build
376 - several programs coming along with ARB where updated (PHYLIP,...)
377 - reads EMBL genom files
378 - support for experiments (genom databases only)
379
380Major changes in Beta 2001_07_24 (24 Jul 2001):
381
382 - basic support for genoms (Gene Map, reads Genebank files)
383 - ported to libc6
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