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<title>What's new ?</title>
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-<p><strong>What's new ?</strong></p>
-<p>Jalview 2.6 introduces new web services, and includes an updated
-version of the Jmol molecular graphics visualization system. See the <a
- href="releases.html#Jalview2.6">release history</a> for the full
-details.</p>
-<p><strong>Highlights in Jalview Version 2.6</strong></p>
-<ul>
- <li><a href="webServices/JABAWS.html">JABA Web Services</a> for
- multiple alignment using:
+ <p>
+ <strong>What's new ?</strong><br /> Jalview 2.8.0b1 is a bugfix
+ release for Jalview version 2.8. <br /> As usual you can find the
+ highlights below, and the comprehensive list is given in the <a
+ href="releases.html#Jalview2.8.0b1">Jalview 2.8.0b1 Release Notes</a>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ This bug fix release includes numerous minor enhancements made over
+ the last 12 months. Importantly, it is also the first release that
+ provides Jalview as a trusted application, signed with a certificate
+ donated to us by <a href="certum.eu">Certum</a>.
+ </p>
+ <strong>Enhancements and new features</strong>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Allow disorder predictions to be made on the current
+ selection (or visible selection) in the same way that JPred works</li>
+ <li>allow import of data from gzipped files</li>
+ <li>Improved per-sequence 'colour-by-annotation' performance</li>
+ <li>Support '' style escaping of quotes in Newick files</li>
+ <li>group options for JABAWS service by command line name</li>
+ <li>Select primary source when selecting authority in database
+ fetcher GUI</li>
+ <li>COMBINE statement uses current SEQUENCE_REF and GROUP_REF
+ scope to group annotation rows</li>
+ <li>add .mfa to FASTA file extensions recognised by Jalview</li>
+ <li>groovy scripting for headless jalview operation</li>
+ <li>Output in Stockholm format</li>
+ </ul>
+ <strong>Bug fixes</strong>
<ul>
- <li>ClustalW</li>
- <li>MAFFT</li>
- <li>Muscle</li>
- <li>ProbCons</li>
- <li>T-COFFEE</li>
+ <li>Uniprot and PDB database cross-reference fetching works
+ properly</li>
+ <li>'View all structures' in the desktop is more reliable</li>
+ <li>Web services parameter dialog box shows the options enabled
+ for different presets</li>
+ <li>Interactive creation of RNA secondary structure works more
+ smoothly</li>
+ <li>Keyboard mode 'P' command jumps to the right place</li>
+ <li>Improved support for parsing database cross-references via
+ Stockholm and Rfam database</li>
+ <li>Improved semantics in annotation files for grouping
+ annotation rows associated with particular sequences and groups</li>
+ <li>More robust DNA->Amino acid translation</li>
+ <li>Improved Headless-mode operation for DAS annotation
+ retrieval, groovy script execution and alignment figure generation</li>
+ <li>annotation label tooltip text needs to be wrapped</li>
</ul>
- </li>
- <li>User modifiable alignment service parameters</li>
- <li>Visualization of superposed structures associated with protein
- or nucleotide sequence alignments.</li>
- <li>Export coordinates and projection as CSV from PCA viewer</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p><strong>Issues Resolved (a select list - see release history for details)</strong></p>
-<ul>
- <li>clustalx colourscheme colours Ds preferentially when both D+E
- are present in over 50% of the column</li>
- <li>Prevent sequence fetcher from replacing ',' for ';' when querying DAS sequence sources</li>
- <li>InstallAnywhere builds fail to launch on OS X java 10.5 update
- 4 (due to apple Java 1.6 update)</li>
-</ul>
-<p>See the <a href="releases.html">Release History</a> page for
-details of all new features and resolved issues.</p>
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