Galactic Weekly: Week 6, 2026

Weekly summary of activity across 150+ galaxyproject repositories

February 8, 2026

Galactic Weekly

Summary

Repositories with activity: 21
New issues: 60
Issues closed: 66
PRs opened: 149
PRs merged: 84
Contributors: 58

Highlights

This week, 58 contributors across 21 Galaxy Project repositories merged 84 pull requests and closed 66 issues. The main focus was migrating user interface components from Bootstrap tables to custom GTable components throughout the Galaxy platform, while fixing multiple bugs in versions 26.0 and 25.1 related to file uploads, workflows, and database operations. The tools repository added new bioinformatics tools including vConTACT2 and Liftoff, updated several existing tools, and resolved various configuration issues. Infrastructure improvements included centralizing API configurations, updating training materials with new contributors and funding information, and transitioning documentation systems from Font Awesome icons to inline SVGs.

Most Active Repositories

Repository	PRs Opened	PRs Merged	Issues Opened	Issues Closed
galaxy	52	31	28	18
tools-iuc	18	14	3	4
galaxy-hub	16	11	5	3
brc-analytics	5	3	14	37
training-material	11	8	0	0
galaxy_codex	9	6	4	0
usegalaxy-tools	14	2	0	0
planemo	6	5	0	0
iwc	4	1	2	2
ansible-slurm	5	0	0	0

Repository Summaries

training-material

The Galaxy Project training material repository received updates to contributor information, including additions to funding acknowledgments for nfdi4boimage and de.NBI, biographical updates for contributors, and the addition of Johannes Nussbaum to the contributors list. The repository also updated single-cell analysis editors and associated publications, corrected WorkflowHub identifiers, and refreshed cached commit data and persistent resource locators.

galaxy-hub

The Galaxy Hub repository received updates to its event listings with a new EMBL-EBI training course and added links to microgalaxy codex tools for the Microbiology SIG. Development work focused on migrating from Font Awesome icons to inline Lucide SVGs, fixing display issues with authors and hyperlinks, and resolving broken kramdown attributes across multiple pages. Several dependency updates were merged, and three display-related issues were resolved while five new issues were opened, primarily concerning quality assurance for a production cutover and GitHub ID mapping problems.

galaxy

This week, the Galaxy Project focused heavily on migrating user interface components from Bootstrap tables (BTable) to their custom GTable component across multiple areas including the Toolshed, organization/person viewers, dataset indexes, and export dialogs. The team also fixed several bugs in version 26.0, including issues with file upload interfaces, database column type mismatches, and properly hiding ChatGXY and interactive tools features when not configured. Additionally, they resolved problems in the 25.1 release related to workflow input propagation, collection job state preservation during history export/import, and database migration errors.

planemo

The planemo repository made several infrastructure and bug fixes this week. The team moved the deployment process to a separate workflow for trusted publishing and fixed issues with the release process and commit versioning script. They also improved error handling for network timeout exceptions and updated the default configuration for the mulled resolution cache directory in planemo workspaces.

brc-analytics

The Galaxy Project's "brc-analytics" repository focused on backend infrastructure fixes this week, with merged pull requests centralizing API URL configuration, fixing hardcoded localhost references, and moving FastAPI documentation URLs under a consistent /api/v1/ prefix. The team closed 33 issues covering a wide range of functionality including backend routing fixes, database migration to Postgres, workflow configuration improvements, organism data handling, and homepage updates to focus on white papers. New issues opened include plans for user growth documentation for NCBI contacts, Grafana workflow metrics visualization, user feedback surveys, and setting Q1 2026 priorities.

tools-iuc

This week, the Galaxy Project's tools-iuc repository received 14 merged pull requests that included bug fixes for several tools (haltools, trimmomatic, abyss, and pirate), version updates for five tools (Constava to v1.2.0, varvamp to v1.3, metamdbg to v1.3, and dos2unix to v7.5.4), and the addition of two new tools (vConTACT2 for taxonomic analysis of metagenomic data and Liftoff). The repository also saw four new issues opened regarding tool configuration problems and feature requests, while four existing issues were resolved and closed.

gxy.io

This week, the Galaxy Project's "gxy.io" repository had one merged pull request that added a new trainer resource for GTA2026. The change appears to be related to training materials or documentation for an upcoming event or program scheduled for 2026.

usegalaxy-tools

This week, the Galaxy Project's usegalaxy-tools repository received two updates. The team added new annotation tools specifically for BRC (Biological Resource Centers) and performed a routine update across all repositories on February 5th, 2026.

galaxy-skills

This week, the Galaxy Project's "galaxy-skills" repository had one merged pull request that fixed the invert semantics for the add_filter_regex function. The change corrected how the function handles inverted regex filtering logic.

iwc

The Galaxy Project's "iwc" repository made changes to direct users to alternative workflow sources, with a pull request merged to implement this redirection. Two new issues were opened requesting templates for repository setup and further guidance on workflow sources, while two existing issues were resolved - one related to the workflow redirection and another concerning infrastructure enhancements for the IWC site.

galaxy_codex

The Galaxy Codex repository completed the biodiversity-genomics lab by merging its final two tables and created a YAML configuration file containing all tools for local Galaxy installations. The team also added functionality to retrieve output formats for each tool suite and implemented code to limit weekly updates to only changes in the communities folder. Several issues were reported regarding broken tool links in labs, training link behavior, and SQL query accuracy for tool usage statistics.

tpv-shared-database

This week, the Galaxy Project's tpv-shared-database repository had one merged pull request that added an environment variable OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS: 1 to the metawrapmg_binning tool. This change limits the number of threads used by the OpenBLAS library to 1 for this specific bioinformatics tool.

galaxy-k8s-boot

This week, one new issue was reported for the Galaxy Project's "galaxy-k8s-boot" repository regarding hard-coded single_user and admin_users configurations in the playbook. The issue identifies a need to make these user settings configurable rather than having them fixed in the code.

ansible-galaxy

This week, the Galaxy Project's ansible-galaxy repository had one issue closed related to comments being improperly included in optional requirement strings. The fix addressed a parsing problem where comment text was not being properly filtered out during requirement string processing.

galaxy-language-server

This week, one new issue was opened for the Galaxy Language Server repository requesting automation of dependency updates when the galaxy-tool-util package receives updates. No other development activity or code changes were recorded during this period.

idc

This week, the Galaxy Project "idc" repository received one new issue requesting updates to Kraken2 and Bracken indexes for July 2025 and October 2025. No other development activity occurred during this period.

ansible-postgresql-objects

This week, the Galaxy Project's "ansible-postgresql-objects" repository had one issue reported and resolved regarding a Pycopg2 connection error where the database role "bvalot3" did not exist. The issue was opened and closed within the same week, indicating a quick resolution to the PostgreSQL role connectivity problem.