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The Galaxy release 16.04 is out !!!
by Jennifer Hillman-Jackson 18 May '16

18 May '16

Dear Community, *The Galaxy Committers team <https://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy/blob/dev/doc/source/project/organiz…> is pleased to announce the April 2016 (v 16.04 <https://docs.galaxyproject.org/en/master/releases/16.04_announce.html>) release of Galaxy.* Please note that Python 2.6 is no longer supported as of this release. See the 16.01 release announcement <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/News/2016_01_GalaxyRelease> for details. *Highlights* [image: Inline image 1] - *New* % git clone -b master https://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy.git - *Update to latest stable release* % git checkout master && pull --ff-only origin master - *Update to this exact version* % hg update latest_16.04 See the Admin <http://usegalaxy.org> wiki for additional details regarding the source code locations. *Thanks for using Galaxy!* The Galaxy team <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyTeam> -- Jennifer Hillman-Jackson Galaxy Application Support http://usegalaxy.org http://galaxyproject.org http://biostar.usegalaxy.org

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GCC2016 Deadlines this Friday & Conference schedule
by Dave Clements 16 May '16

16 May '16

Hello all, This is just a reminder that* there are some key deadlines this Friday, May 20:* - Early registration ends <https://gcc2016.iu.edu/registration/index.php>. After Friday registration rates go up by over 40%. - Poster abstracts <https://gcc2016.iu.edu/abstracts/index.php> are due. - Demo abstracts <https://gcc2016.iu.edu/abstracts/index.php> are due. These are new this year and can complement a poster abstract or stand on their own. If you are wondering what's happening at GCC2016, the training and conference schedules <https://gcc16.sched.org/> are now online, featuring 21 accepted talks <https://gcc16.sched.org/overview/type/Conference> and 31 training sessions <https://gcc16.sched.org/overview/type/Training+%E2%80%94+Any>. And, thanks to Jetstream <http://jetstream-cloud.org/> IU's newest National Science Foundation-funded project (and in which Galaxy is a partner), and the National Center for Genome Analysis Support <http://ncgas.org/> at IU are sponsoring an opening reception on Monday evening <http://sched.co/72bN> at the IU Cyberinfrastructure Building. The first ever GCC opening reception will feature local wine/beer, morsels from local eateries, and demonstrations of the 15 million+ pixel IQ-Wall, IU's Data Center, Science on a Sphere, and other IU-centric IT. Hope to see you there, Dave C -- http://galaxyproject.org/ http://getgalaxy.org/ http://usegalaxy.org/ https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/

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May 2016 Galaxy News: GCC2016 DEADLINES Approaching
by Dave Clements 29 Apr '16

29 Apr '16

Hi All, The *May Galaxy News* <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_05> is out and the lead news is *GCC2016 deadlines! <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_05#Deadlines.21>* - Poster and demo abstracts are due May 20 - Early registration closes May 20 as well. - The application deadline for scholarships is May 1. *So get moving! * There's also lots of other news too. Check it out <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_05>. Don't miss those deadlines(!), and *see you in June* <https://gcc2016.iu.edu/>, Dave Clements and the Galaxy Team <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyTeam> -- http://galaxyproject.org/ http://getgalaxy.org/ http://usegalaxy.org/ https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/

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2016 Galaxy Community Conference: June 25-29, Bloomington, Indiana
by Dave Clements 08 Apr '16

08 Apr '16

Hello all, Here's the official email announcement for the 2016 Galaxy Community Conference. Please redistribute to any of your communities that would benefit from attending. Also please note: * 1. Oral presentation abstracts are due March 25.* 2. The June 2016 GMOD Meeting <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gmod-2016-community-meeting-tickets-22224544210> will be held immediately after GCC2016. Thanks, Dave C --------------- The *2016 Galaxy Community Conference *(*GCC2016*, *gcc2016.iu.edu <http://gcc2016.iu.edu/>*) features two days of presentations, discussions, poster sessions, lightning talks, computer demos, keynotes, and birds-of-a-feather meetups, *all about data-intensive biology and the tools that support it*. Keynote speaker Yoav Gilad <http://genes.uchicago.edu/directory/yoav-gilad-phd/>, a professor of human genetics at the University of Chicago, will kick-start the main conference with a discussion on the analysis of large gene regulatory data sets. Preconference events include data <https://gcc2016.iu.edu/hacks/hacks-data.php> and coding <https://gcc2016.iu.edu/hacks/hacks-coding.php> hackathons <https://gcc2016.iu.edu/hacks/index.php>, and *two days of training* <https://gcc16.sched.org/overview/type/Training+%E2%80%94+Any> in five concurrent tracks covering 26 topics. *GCC2016* will be held at *Indiana University* in Bloomington, Indiana, June 25-29, 2016. Since it started seven years ago, GCC has been a well-attended gathering of biologists, genome researchers, bioinformaticians, and others in data-intensive biomedical research around the world. Galaxy <https://galaxyproject.org/> is an open, web-based platform for data-intensive biomedical research and enables easy interactive analysis through the web on arbitrarily large data sets. The Galaxy framework is a major resource in achieving key research goals within the biological field. It provides next-generation sequencing (NGS) tools and workflows for short-read mapping, ChIP-seq, RNA-seq, metagenomics, variant analysis, visualization, and support for Galaxy in the cloud. There are hundreds of local installs, and *over 80 publicly accessible servers* around the world. *Abstract submission** for oral presentations closes March 25. *Abstract submission for posters and computer demonstrations closes May 20. *Early registration* is now open. Registration starts at less than $45/day for post-docs and students. Registering early assures you a place at the conference and also a spot in the training workshops <https://gcc16.sched.org/overview/type/Training+%E2%80%94+Any> you want to attend. You can also *book conference housing* when you register. *Registration and lodging scholarships* are available for attendees from underrepresented groups and developing countries. Thanks, and we hope to see you in Bloomington! The *GCC2016 Exec* -- http://galaxyproject.org/ http://getgalaxy.org/ http://usegalaxy.org/ https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/

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Galactic News! April Edition: GCC2016, DevOps, Hacks, events, papers, jobs, servers, hub entries, releases, tools
by Dave Clements 31 Mar '16

31 Mar '16

Hello all, The *April Galaxy News <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_04>* brings more than the usual amount of *News of the Galaxy*. First, there are a plethora of events coming up around the world: - GCC2016 <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_04#GCC2016>: - *Oral abstracts due April 8 <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_04#GCC2016_Abstract_Deadl…>* - *Scholarship applications due May 1 <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_04#Scholarships:_Applicat…>* - Register now and save big <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_04#GCC2016_Early_Registra…> - Please welcome the the Indiana Health Industry Forum (IHIF) <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_04#Sponsors> as a GCC2016 Sponsor - Two events sponsored by ELIXIR (and others) are coming up, both prominently featuring Galaxy: - Galaxy DevOps Workshop <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_04#Galaxy_DevOps_Workshop…>, 6-7 April, Heidelberg, Germany. *And there is still space.* - Hackathon: Tools, Workflows and Workbenches <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_04#Hackathon:_Tools.2C_Wo…>, 18-20 May, Paris, France - There is also a report from the RADSeq Tools and Workflows Hackathon <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_04#Report:_IUC_Contributi…> held in March. - Plus 12 additional events <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_04#Upcoming_Events> on three continents over the next three months. A lot of *new* - Papers <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_04#New_Papers> (86 of them, 6 highlighted) - Open positions <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_04#Who.27s_Hiring> (10 of them) - Halogen Bonding <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_04#New_Public_Galaxy_Serv…> Galaxy server - Galaxy Community Hub <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_04#Galaxy_Community_Hubs> entries (4 of them) - Releases <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_04#Releases> (Planemo <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_04#Planemo_0.24.0> and CloudMan <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_04#CloudMan_16.03>) - ToolShed Contributions <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_04#ToolShed_Contributions> And some other news <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_04#Other_News> too. Happy April, Dave Clements and the Galaxy Team <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyTeam> -- http://galaxyproject.org/ http://getgalaxy.org/ http://usegalaxy.org/ https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/

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GCC2016 Oral Presentation Abstracts due this Friday, March 25
by Dave Clements 22 Mar '16

22 Mar '16

Hello all, The general announcement for GCC2016 is below. Please note: 1) The oral presentation abstract deadline <https://gcc2016.iu.edu/abstracts/index.php> is March 25, *this Friday.* 2) There are scholarships available <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/News/GCC2016Scholarships> for students and post-docs in historically underrepresented groups. And, please distribute the announcement below to any groups or individuals who might be interested, Thanks, and hope to see you in Bloomington, Dave C --------------------- The *2016 Galaxy Community Conference *(*GCC2016*, *gcc2016.iu.edu <http://gcc2016.iu.edu/>*) features two days of presentations, discussions, poster sessions, lightning talks, computer demos, keynotes, and birds-of-a-feather meetups, *all about data-intensive biology and the tools that support it*. Keynote speaker Yoav Gilad <http://genes.uchicago.edu/directory/yoav-gilad-phd/>, a professor of human genetics at the University of Chicago, will kick-start the main conference with a discussion on the analysis of large gene regulatory data sets. Preconference events include data <https://gcc2016.iu.edu/hacks/hacks-data.php> and coding <https://gcc2016.iu.edu/hacks/hacks-coding.php> hackathons <https://gcc2016.iu.edu/hacks/index.php>, and *two days of training* <https://gcc16.sched.org/overview/type/Training+%E2%80%94+Any> in five concurrent tracks covering 26 topics. *GCC2016* will be held at *Indiana University* in Bloomington, Indiana, June 25-29, 2016. Since it started seven years ago, GCC has been a well-attended gathering of biologists, genome researchers, bioinformaticians, and others in data-intensive biomedical research around the world. Galaxy <https://galaxyproject.org/> is an open, web-based platform for data-intensive biomedical research and enables easy interactive analysis through the web on arbitrarily large data sets. The Galaxy framework is a major resource in achieving key research goals within the biological field. It provides next-generation sequencing (NGS) tools and workflows for short-read mapping, ChIP-seq, RNA-seq, metagenomics, variant analysis, visualization, and support for Galaxy in the cloud. There are hundreds of local installs, and *over 80 publicly accessible servers* around the world. *Abstract submission** for oral presentations closes March 25. *Abstract submission for posters and computer demonstrations closes May 20. *Early registration* is now open. Registration starts at less than $45/day for post-docs and students. Registering early assures you a place at the conference and also a spot in the training workshops <https://gcc16.sched.org/overview/type/Training+%E2%80%94+Any> you want to attend. You can also *book conference housing* when you register. *Registration and lodging scholarships <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/News/GCC2016Scholarships>* are available for attendees from underrepresented groups and developing countries. Thanks, and we hope to see you in Bloomington! The *GCC2016 Exec* -- http://galaxyproject.org/ http://getgalaxy.org/ http://usegalaxy.org/ https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/

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March 2016 Galaxy News: GCC2016 deadlines this month, GSOC 2016, RAD-Seq Hack …
by Dave Clements 01 Mar '16

01 Mar '16

Hello all, The *March 2016 Galactic News <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_03>* is hot off the presses: - *GCC2016 <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_03#GCC2016>* news: - *Oral presentation abstracts due March 20 <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_03#GCC2016_Abstract_Submi…>.* If you are doing work in data-intensive biology then you are strongly encourage to present your work at the conference. Oral presentations, poster presentations, and the new Visualization Showcase & Software Demos are all opportunities to share your work. - Register early <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_03#GCC2016_Early_Registra…> and save up to 40% off regular registration costs. Early bird prices start at less than $45 / day for post-docs and students. - Apply for a GCC2016 Scholarship <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_03#Scholarships:_Internat…> . *Applications from international applicants are due March 20.* - The 2016 GMOD Meeting <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_03#GMOD_Meeting.2C_June_3…> will be held immediately following GCC2016, also at Indiana University. - And, we have a returning sponsor: Please welcome *BioTeam <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_03#Sponsors>* to GCC2016. - *March 7-8: Online IUC Contribution Fest - RADSeq Tools and Workflows <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_03#March_7-8:_Online_IUC_…>* - *Galaxy in Google Summer of Code <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_03#Galaxy_in_Google_Summe…>* - Twelve other upcoming events <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_03#Upcoming_Events> - 54 new publications, including 4 highlighted pubs <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_03#New_Papers> - New jobs <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_03#Who.27s_Hiring> - New releases <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_03#Releases>, including the new CloudBridge <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_03#CloudBridge_0.1.0> and two important security announcements <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_03#Security_Announcements> - Two new Galaxy servers <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_03#New_Public_Galaxy_Serv…> - New ToolShed Contributions <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_03#ToolShed_Contributions> Dave Clements and the Galaxy Team <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyTeam> -- http://galaxyproject.org/ http://getgalaxy.org/ http://usegalaxy.org/ https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/

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Galaxy 16.01 Release
by Nate Coraor 24 Feb '16

24 Feb '16

The Galaxy Committers team is pleased to announce the January 2016 (v16.01) release of Galaxy. Galaxy administrators should also be aware of the security announcements that I am posting simultaneously with this release announcement. The release notes follow. From: https://docs.galaxyproject.org/en/master/releases/16.01_announce.html January 2016 Galaxy Release (v 16.01) Highlights *Interactive Tours* The interactive tours framework allows developers and deployers to build interactive tutorials for users superimposed on the actual Galaxy web front end. Unlike video tutorials, these will not become stale and are truly interactive (allowing users to actually navigate and interact with Galaxy). Galaxy 16.01 ships with two example tours and new ones can easily be added by creating a small YAML file describing the tour. Try the Galaxy UI tour on Main. *Wheels* Galaxy’s Python dependencies have traditionally been distributed as eggs using custom dependency management code to enable Galaxy to distribute binary dependencies (enabling quick downloads and minimal system requirements). With this release all of that infrastructure has been replaced with a modern Python infrastructure based on pip and wheels. Work done as part of this to enable binary dependencies on Linux has been included with the recently released pip 8. Detailed documentation on these changes and their impact under a variety of Galaxy deployment scenarios can be found in the Galaxy Framework Dependencies section of the Admin documentation. *Nested Workflows* Workflows may now run other workflows as a single abstract step in the parent workflow. This allows for reusing or subworkflows in your analyses. Github *New* % git clone -b master https://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy.git *Update to latest stable release* % git checkout master && pull --ff-only origin master *Update to exact version* % git checkout v16.01 BitBucket *Upgrade* % hg pull % hg update latest_16.01 See our wiki for additional details regarding the source code locations. Deprecation Notices Barring a strong outcry from deployers, 16.01 will be the last release of Galaxy to support Python 2.6. For more information, see Galaxy Github Issue #1596.

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Galaxy Security Vulnerability - Read/write arbitrary filesystem paths, arbitrary code execution
by Nate Coraor 24 Feb '16

24 Feb '16

*DESCRIPTION* Multiple security vulnerabilities were recently discovered in Galaxy that allow malicious actors to read and write files on the Galaxy server. Additionally, Galaxy servers on which a rarely used feature has been enabled are vulnerable to an arbitrary code execution exploit. 1. A write vulnerability exists in the history import mechanism. It is possible to create a history tar archive that contains files with parent directory components in the file path (e.g. "foo/../../bar" would extract to "../bar"), and these archive members would be written if the user running the Galaxy server had write permission to the given path. 2. A read vulnerability exists in the object store path composition code. Galaxy allows clients to add elements to the end of a path to "extra" files associated with a dataset (as is the case with composite datatypes). These elements were not being checked to ensure they did not contain relative parent references ('..') or did not start with an absolute path character ('/'). Because of this, the dataset display methods could be manipulated to return the contents of any files for which the Galaxy server user had read permission. 3. An arbitrary code execution vulnerability exists in the Galaxy sample tracking system. The sample tracking system included a feature which allowed administrators to browse remote "external services" (such as sequencers) to choose files to transfer to the Galaxy server. This browsing code used a shell invocation which did not sanitize user input. However, this code is only reachable if at least one external service has ever been defined. The Galaxy Committers would like to thank Youri Hoogstrate at the Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, who initially reported a similar vulnerability in the Tool Shed. Through additional auditing based on this attack vector, we discovered the other vulnerabilities. *AFFECTED VERSIONS* This issue affects all known releases of Galaxy in at least the last 3 years. *IMPACT* The read and write vulnerabilities can be exploited to write to any path on the Galaxy server writable by the Galaxy user, which can be potentially destructive to Galaxy configuration files and data. Additionally, they can be used to read any file available on the system that is readable by the user running the Galaxy server, including Galaxy config files, data, system config files, contents of /proc, etc. As such, Galaxy administrators are strongly encouraged to update immediately. The arbitrary code execution vulnerability can be exploited to execute any shell command as the Galaxy user, which is also very dangerous. If your Galaxy instance has had an external service configured at any point in the past, you are strongly encouraged to update immediately. *SOLUTION* Fixes for these vulnerabilities have been applied to the 14.10 and newer release branches in the public GitHub and Bitbucket repositories. Galaxy versions older than 14.10 should upgrade (preferably to 16.01). To apply the fix, first identify your current Galaxy release version using the `git branch` or `hg branch` commands. If you are on a 'release_YY.MM' branch, you can update with: % git pull or: % hg pull -u The process above can also be used to update to the 16.01 release if you are on the 'master' git branch or the 'stable' hg branch. If you are on the 'master'/'stable' branch and wish to remain on your current Galaxy major release, check the 'lib/galaxy/version.py' file to determine your major release version, then update to the appropriate branch: % git checkout -b release_YY.MM origin/release_YY.MM % git pull or: % hg pull % hg update release_YY.MM For the changes to take effect, *YOU MUST RESTART ALL GALAXY SERVER PROCESSES*. On behalf of the Galaxy Committers, --nate

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Galaxy/Tool Shed Security Vulnerability - Read/write arbitrary filesystem paths
by Nate Coraor 24 Feb '16

24 Feb '16

*DESCRIPTION* Multiple security vulnerabilities were recently discovered in the Tool Shed that allow malicious actors to read and write files on the Tool Shed server outside of normal Tool Shed repository directories. 1. A write vulnerability exists in the Tool Shed tarball and capsule upload functionality. It is possible to create a tar archive that contains files with parent directory components in the file path (e.g. "foo/../../bar" would extract to "../bar"), and these archive members would be written if the user running the Tool Shed had write permission to the given path. The Tool Shed tarball handling code checked for invalid characters ('/' or '..') at the beginning of the path but not for '..' in the middle of a path. 2. A read vulnerability exists in multiple places. The first is in the (now deprecated) `hg push` functionality for updating Tool Shed repositories. This method allows malicious actors to push symlinks whose targets are outside the repository (either via an absolute or relative path). The contents of the targets would then be visible in the Tool Shed repository contents viewer, if the Tool Shed user has read permission on the target. 3. A second read vulnerability exists in the Tool Shed repository contents viewer. The viewer would allow a malicious actor to specify a path outside the repository, and if the Tool Shed system user had read permissions on that path, it would be displayed. The viewer also did not check to ensure that the targets of symlinks in a repository did not point outside the repository. The repository contents viewer read vulnerability also exists in Galaxy, but is only reachable/exploitable by admin users. The Galaxy Committers would like to thank Youri Hoogstrate at the Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, who initially reported the `hg push` vulnerability. Through additional auditing based on this attack vector, we discovered the other vulnerabilities. *AFFECTED VERSIONS* These issues affect all known releases of the Tool Shed and Galaxy in at least the last 3 years. *IMPACT* This vulnerability can be exploited to read any file available on the system that is readable by the user running the Tool Shed or Galaxy server, including Galaxy/Tool Shed config files, data, system config files, contents of /proc, etc. As such, Tool Shed administrators are strongly encouraged to update immediately. For Galaxy administrators, the impact is not as great, unless Galaxy administrators do not have access to the Galaxy server command line. *SOLUTION* Fixes for these vulnerabilities have been applied to the 15.01 and newer (14.10 in the case of the portion of the vulnerability affecting Galaxy) release branches in the public GitHub and Bitbucket repositories. Tool Shed versions older than 15.01 should upgrade (preferably to 16.01). To apply the fix, first identify your current Galaxy release version using the `git branch` or `hg branch` commands. If you are on a 'release_YY.MM' branch, you can update with: % git pull or: % hg pull -u The process above can also be used to update to the 16.01 release if you are on the 'master' git branch or the 'stable' hg branch. If you are on the 'master'/'stable' branch and wish to remain on your current Galaxy major release, check the 'lib/galaxy/version.py' file to determine your major release version, then update to the appropriate branch: % git checkout -b release_YY.MM origin/release_YY.MM % git pull or: % hg pull % hg update release_YY.MM For the changes to take effect, *YOU MUST RESTART ALL GALAXY SERVER PROCESSES*. On behalf of the Galaxy Committers, --nate

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