Dear microGalaxy community, I am happy to announce the microGalaxy Hackathon for Tool Development, taking place online on 14 October 2026! The goal of the hackathon is to dedicate a day to updating and maintaining outdated, highly used metagenomics tools in the Galaxy IUC repository. The idea is to provide a dedicated block of time for tool maintenance and coordinate efforts across the community. Even if you can only join for a few hours or during the US/AU/EU overlap, you are very welcome to participate. Details: https://galaxyproject.org/news/2026-09-22-microgalaxy-hackathon/ Best, Paul -- Dr. Paul Zierep Chair for Bioinformatics Department of Computer Science University of Freiburg Georges-Koehler-Allee 079, Room 1005a, D-79110 Freiburg, Germany E-mail: zierep@informatik.uni-freiburg.de <erxleben@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> Tel. 0049 761 203 54129 European Galaxy Team https://galaxyproject.eu https://usegalaxy.eu