v472 Genome Browser Patch Available

[Jonathan Casper]

Good Afternoon Genome Browser MIrror Site Operators:

A patch to the existing v472 release of the UCSC Genome Browser software has just been released.  The primary issue being fixed caused checkbox clicks in track configuration menus to not be registered in some situations, so that those options effectively could not be used.  This patch also includes a fix for dropbox menu options being misplaced on the screen.  Both fixes are solely to javascript files used to support the browser - the CGI binaries are unchanged.

The updated source code is available at 

https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/admin/jksrc.zip

or labeled with version number at:

https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/admin/jksrc.v472.zip

The updated javascript files affected will be available for download from our download server tomorrow (Saturday) morning by 9 AM PDT (4 PM GMT).  Servers that rely on those binaries (including GBiB and GBiC installations) can be updated after that time as follows.

If you use the GBiB virtual machine with auto-updates enabled, it will automatically update itself. If you have installed your UCSC Genome Browser server with the GBiC installation script browserSetup.sh, then you can upgrade it with the command "sudo bash browserSetup.sh update".

If you have installed your Genome Browser manually:

• You can use a command like the following rsync command to copy the javascript files into the js directory of your Apache server (change this to place the files in your local js/ directory; the command assumes they're in ${WEBROOT}/html/js/): rsync -avP rsync://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/htdocs/js/ ${WEBROOT}/html/js/

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to write back to this genome-mirror mailing list.

Jonathan Casper

UCSC Genomics Institute