[Samtools-announce] SAMtools release 1.16.1

[Robert D. <rm...@sa...>]

Samtools version 1.16.1 is now available from GitHub and SourceForge.
This release fixes some bugs in the new template-coordinate sort feature.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/samtools/
https://github.com/samtools/samtools/releases/tag/1.16.1

The main changes are listed below:

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samtools - changes v1.16.1
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Bug fixes:

  * Fixed a bug with the template-coordinate sort which caused incorrect
    ordering when using threads, or processing large files that don't fit
    completely in memory. (PR#1703, thanks to Nils Homer)

  * Fixed a crash that occurred when trying to use `samtools merge` in
    template-coordinate mode. (PR#1705, thanks to Nils Homer)



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