The Galaxy Committers team https://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy/blob/dev/doc/source/project/organization.rst is pleased to announce the *October 2016 (v16.10) release of Galaxy https://docs.galaxyproject.org/en/master/releases/16.10_announce.html*. Security https://docs.galaxyproject.org/en/master/releases/16.10_announce.html#security

An arbitrary code execution vulnerability in two tools and an XSS vulnerability with the upload tool were identified this release cycle and have been fixed concurrently with the release. In addition, the fixes have been backported to older releases.

The Galaxy Committers would like to thank David Wyde for disclosing these vulnerabilities. Details follow:

1. The vulnerable tools are “Filter GFF data by attribute” and “Filter GFF data by feature count”, both of which are provided with and enabled by default in the Galaxy server. These two tools share code with each other and the more general “Filter data on any column using simple expressions” tool. The latter was fixed in a previous security disclosure but these GFF variants of the tool were missed when updating the Filter tool. These tools use the Python eval and exec functions and do not properly sanitize input to these functions. The fix for this issue has been applied to Galaxy releases back to v14.10 and can be found in Commit c1e3087 2. An uploaded file’s name was not properly sanitized, and so a specially crafted filename uploaded to the Galaxy server could be used as an XSS attack vector. The fix for this issue has been applied to Galaxy releases back to v16.07 and can be found in Pull Request 3278.

Highlighted Enhancements https://docs.galaxyproject.org/en/master/releases/16.10_announce.html#highlighted-enhancements

- Overhaul of charts visualization - more visualizations, more options, and better user interface. - Paginate contents of large histories. - Implement a collection operation tool for merging collections (thanks to @Takadonet). - Replace reference documentation for tool XML files with automatically generated documentation from a now official Galaxy XSD documentation (with help from many). - Add a password strength evaluation bar (thanks to @benfulton). - Implement a GoDocker job runner (thanks to @varunshankar). - Support for API batch requests. - Allow JSONP to be returned from API endpoints. - Add “Save as” as an option in the workflow editor (thanks to @tmcgowan). - Allow naming input datasets and collections during workflow extraction. - Various enhancements for API driven installation of tool shed repositories.

Get Galaxy http://getgalaxy.org/

The code lives at Github https://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy and you should have Git https://git-scm.com/ to obtain it.

*To get a new Galaxy repository run:*

$ git clone -b release_16.10 https://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy.git

*To update an existing Galaxy repository run:*

$ git checkout release_16.10 && git pull --ff-only origin release_16.10

Release Notes https://docs.galaxyproject.org/en/master/releases/16.10_announce.html

For full details on all of the enhancements and fixes in this release, please see the full release notes https://docs.galaxyproject.org/en/master/releases/16.10_announce.html.

On behalf of the Galaxy Committers https://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy/blob/dev/doc/source/project/organization.rst , *Thanks for using Galaxy!*

--nate