[Gmod-announce] Version 1.53 of GBrowse released

[Scott C. <ca...@cs...>]

Hello,

Version 1.53 of the Generic Genome Browser (GBrowse) was released
today.  A PPM version for Windows should be available sometime next
week.  As it fixes a security hole in previous versions of GBrowse, I
strong advise all users to upgrade to it at their earliest convenience. 
Since version 1.53 requires BioPerl 1.2.2, I realize some users may be
reluctant to immediately update, so as a secondary recommendation, I
suggest you look at the bug report for the security hole and my fix at:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=783035&group_id=27707&atid=511474

Here is the Change log for this version:

1.53    Thu Aug 21 14:40:54 EDT 2003
        * Security hole that allowed the display of /etc/passwd and other
	files fixed
	* Documentation reworked as pod and which is converted to html on
	install.  That documentation is then available at
	http://localhost/gbrowse
	* Added an extensive tutorial, also available at http://localhost/gbrowse
	* Added tools for making it easier to create a PPM package for Windows
	* Added a 'nascent' synteny browser.
	* Added gbrowse_details, a CGI that gives skeletal details on each feature
	* Added an optional 'flip mode' to flip the orientation of the display
        * Added a multiple alignment plugin
	* Added a GeneFinder plugin
	* Added support for the chado database schema
        * Added support for the PostgreSQL database server
	* Added a script for converting UCSC genome data to GFF3
	* Added a script for loading Genbank/EMBL files to a GFF database

Scott

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Scott Cain, Ph. D.                                         ca...@cs...
GMOD Coordinator (http://www.gmod.org/)                     216-392-3087
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