April 1, 2013 Galaxy Distribution

April 2, 2013

Due to a security vulnerability, administrators are strongly encouraged to upgrade to the [April 8, 2013 Security Release](/news/2013-04-08-galaxy-security-release/), which is was not included in the original April 1, 2013 distribution.```

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**Complete [News Brief](/archive/dev-news-briefs/2013-04-01/)**
<div class='right'><a href='http://galaxyproject.org'><img src="/images/news-graphics/2013_04_01_granular-galaxy-utilities.png" alt="tool shed" width=350 /></a></div>
**Highlights:**

* [Job running configuration changes and refactoring of job runner plugins](http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/DevNewsBriefs/2013-04-01#Job_Running_Configuration_Changes)
* [Required reset of the metadata on your installed tool shed repositories](http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/DevNewsBriefs/2013-04-01#Required_Metadata_Reset) plus [Changes required to your environment if you are hosting a local Tool Shed](http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/DevNewsBriefs/2013-04-01#Local_Tool_Shed_File_Changes)
* [Basic Data Manager Functionality now present](http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/DevNewsBriefs/2013-04-01#Data)
* [Tool Shed](http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/DevNewsBriefs/2013-04-01#Tool_Shed), [Trackster](http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/DevNewsBriefs/2013-04-01#Trackster), [Cloudman](http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/DevNewsBriefs/2013-04-01#CloudMan), [Workflows](http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/DevNewsBriefs/2013-04-01#Workflows), [UI](http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/DevNewsBriefs/2013-04-01#UI), [Admin](http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/DevNewsBriefs/2013-04-01#Admin), and [new Pull Request](http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/DevNewsBriefs/2013-04-01#Source) updates.
* New [bug fixes and improvements](http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/DevNewsBriefs/2013-04-01#Bug_Fixes_and_related_Enhancements).

*[http://getgalaxy.org](http://getgalaxy.org)*

*[http://bitbucket.org/galaxy/galaxy-dist](http://bitbucket.org/galaxy/galaxy-dist)*

*[http://galaxy-dist.readthedocs.org](http://galaxy-dist.readthedocs.org)*

new: $ hg clone https://bitbucket.org/galaxy/galaxy-dist#stable

upgrade: $ hg pull $ hg update security_2013.04.08

*Thanks for using Galaxy,*

[The Galaxy Team](/galaxy-team/)