v484 Genome Browser Patch

[Jonathan Casper]

Good Afternoon Genome Browser Mirror Site Operators,

We have just issued a patch for version 484 of the Genome Browser software.  It is likely that few or none of you will be affected by this patch, but just in case:

The original v484 release incorporated the ability to use a Cloudflare Turnstile key to restrict bot and crawler access to the CGIs.  The feature was activated by setting up some special settings in the "hg.conf" file, and is deactivated by default.  When we activated this setting on our main server we discovered an issue that had slipped through earlier testing, and was breaking the site for legitimate users by sending them through an infinite verification loop.  This patch resolves that issue.

The CGIs available for download have been updated with the patch, as has our packaged source tree from https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu.

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

Best,

Jonathan Casper

UCSC Genomics Institute