XNAT 1.8.5 Released, with Container Service 3.2.0, and Batch Launch 0.6.0!

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Aug 2, 2022, 11:13:53 PM8/2/22

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XNAT 1.8.5 Has Been Released!

XNAT 1.8.5 is now available and ready to install. This version of XNAT includes several important updates, including some exciting new functionality. Here is a quick overview of what is included.

Critical Bugfixes:

Fixed potential failures in the site configuration service
Fixed sharing issues with scan data
Fixed post-archive anonymization issue
Enabled plugins to initialize PostgreSQL tables

Other improvements include:

Enabled scheduled event handlers based on timepoints
Made a series of improvements to DICOM import including added image data modality support
Improved search behaviors
Made multiple improvements to XFT / Datatype management

And plenty more. Review the XNAT 1.8.5 release notes for a full listing of updates.

Upgrading is (fairly) easy!
The upgrade path from XNAT 1.8 to XNAT 1.8.5 is as easy as configuring your war file for the version of Tomcat you're running and dropping the new war file in place. Upgrading from the XNAT 1.7.x line is only mildly more arduous. See the XNAT Upgrade Instructions.

XNAT Release Notes | XNAT Documentation

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XNAT Container Service Plugin 3.2.0 and Batch Launch Plugin 0.6.0 Released!

New: Support for Kubernetes!

In addition to Docker and Docker Swarm, with Container Service 3.2.0 you can now run your container jobs on a Kubernetes cluster. We expect that this will be a welcome addition for site admins that deploy to the cloud, as all the cloud providers have native solutions for building a Kubernetes cluster.

All the core Container Service operations are supported: launching containers, monitoring and reporting their states, mounting XNAT data files as container inputs, loading container outputs into XNAT as new objects, and reading container logs.

Other key improvements include:

Adding the ability to run containers as scheduled event handlers
Improved xsiType permission checking on container availability
Improved user permission checking to ensure that users who launch a container can perform all actions required by the container
Several bugfixes and logging improvements

Additionally, the Batch Launch Plugin has released a companion update (v0.6.0), including the following features:

Improved scalability support
Improved support for ROI Collections
Improved security of the build directory
Added support for the restrictable "Downloads" feature

Container Service 3.2.0 and Batch Launch 0.6.0 require XNAT 1.8.5 or later. See the updated Compatibility Matrix for full guidance on dependencies and feature parity.