[Jalview-discuss] Jalview 2.4.0b2 bugfix release

[Jim Procter]

Dear Jalviewers.

I'm pleased to announce that the Jalview applet and desktop application 
available from the Jalview download page 
(http://www.jalview.org/download.html) have been updated to the latest 
bug fix version, which was previously available from the 'release' 
branch of the jalview development version 
(http://www.jalview.org/versions.html).

This release fixes a number of minor issues with the previous 2.4 
release, including issues related to the applet's performance on java 
1.6.0u12+, the retrieval of multiple records from a sequence data source 
in the application, and problems with launching the installAnywhere 
version from the command line. Please see the release history page for 
full details (http://www.jalview.org/releaseHistory.html).

Usage Tracking with Google Analytics
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This bugfix release also introduces usage statistics tracking, via 
Google Analytics (GA). On first launch of the application, you will be 
asked if you would like to enable this feature. Please see the Jalview 
privacy statement for more information 
(http://www.jalview.org/help/html/privacy.html).

We are very interested in recording when and how the Jalview desktop is 
used, and hope to use GA mechanism to record this information in an 
anonymous manner. This information, in addition to the www.jalview.org 
HTTP logs, will help us inform our funders - the BBSRC, and in the 
future, will inform our redesign of the Jalview user interface to make 
it even better.

The next Jalview Release
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The development version of Jalview, available from 
http://www.jalview.org/versions.html now contains a number of new 
visualization features, including sequence logos, and score and label 
based sequence feature annotation colouring. I hope to incorporate these 
features into a new Jalview release scheduled for the last month of 
2009, or early 2010. If you are interested in alpha/beta testing, please 
have a look at the latest version, and get in contact via 
jalview-discuss at jalview.org

Happy Jalviewing!

Jim Procter.

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J. B. Procter  (JALVIEW/ENFIN)  Barton Bioinformatics Research Group
http://www.jalview.org          http://www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk
The University of Dundee is a Scottish Registered Charity, No. SC015096.