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23 <title>What's new ?</title>
27 <strong>What's new in Jalview 2.10.3 ?</strong>
30 Version 2.10.3 was released in November 2017. The major focus was to
31 improve Jalview's sequence features datamodel and the scalability of
32 the alignment rendering system. The full list of bug fixes and new
33 features can be found in the <a href="releases.html#Jalview.2.10.3">2.10.3
34 Release Notes</a>. Key improvements include:
37 <li>Faster and more responsive UI when importing and working
38 with wide alignments and handling hundreds and thousands of
39 sequence features</li>
40 <li>Improved usability with <a
41 href="features/pdbsequencefetcher.html">PDB</a> and <a
42 href="features/uniprotsequencefetcher.html">UniProt</a> Free Text
43 Search dialog, and new tab for retrieval of sequences for lists of
46 <li>Short names assigned to sequences retrieved from UniProt</li>
47 <li>Groovy console upgraded to 2.4.12 (improved support for Java 9)</li>
50 <strong><a name="experimental">Experimental Features</a></strong>
53 Remember, please enable the <em>Experimental Features</em> option in
54 the Jalview Desktop's <em>Tools</em> menu, and then restart Jalview
55 if you want to try out features below:
58 <li><em>Annotation transfer between Chimera and Jalview</em><br />Two
59 <a href="features/chimera.html#experimental">new entries in
60 the Chimera viewer's Chimera menu</a> allow positional annotation to
61 be exchanged between Chimera and Jalview.</li>