Galactic Weekly: Week 7, 2026

Weekly summary of activity across 150+ galaxyproject repositories

February 15, 2026

Galactic Weekly

Summary

Repositories with activity: 14
New issues: 30
Issues closed: 35
PRs opened: 124
PRs merged: 79
Contributors: 50

Highlights

This week, the Galaxy Project merged 79 pull requests across 14 repositories with contributions from 50 developers. The main Galaxy repository received 28 pull requests focused on migrating user interface components from BTable to GTable, fixing crashes on macOS and AWS Batch systems, and updating security dependencies. The team updated personnel information and improved search functionality on the Galaxy hub website, while tools received bug fixes and new file format support including CRAM files for genomic analysis. Training materials were updated with maintenance fixes and new instructor resources.

Most Active Repositories

Repository	PRs Opened	PRs Merged	Issues Opened	Issues Closed
galaxy	45	28	16	16
galaxy-hub	29	26	1	1
tools-iuc	17	9	5	14
training-material	9	5	2	1
brc-analytics	4	3	1	2
galaxy_codex	5	3	1	0
usegalaxy-tools	5	2	0	0
iwc	4	1	0	0
galaxy-mcp	3	1	0	0
infrastructure-playbook	1	1	0	0

Repository Summaries

iwc

This week, the Galaxy Project's "iwc" repository had one merged pull request that simplified and updated the influenza workflow. The changes streamlined the existing workflow used for influenza analysis within the Galaxy platform.

training-material

The Galaxy Project's training-material repository received several maintenance updates this week, including fixes to persistent URLs, addition of an instructor Google form link, and dependency updates for axios and AWS credentials configuration. One FAQ issue regarding dataset collections was reported and quickly resolved, while a new issue was opened about missing training examples in the BiaPy library.

usegalaxy-tools

This week, the usegalaxy-tools repository had two changes merged. The kmindex tool was added to the assembly section, and IWC (Intergalactic Workflow Commission) tools were installed for cloud deployment scheduled for February 9, 2026.

galaxy-mcp

This week, the Galaxy Project's "galaxy-mcp" repository had one merged pull request that fixed a version mismatch between the init.py file and pyproject.toml file, aligning both to version 1.3.0. This change ensures consistency in version numbering across the project's configuration files.

galaxy-hub

The Galaxy Project hub repository received updates to personnel information, including additions of new team members (Martin Demko, vondrakis, martenson) and updates to existing members' LinkedIn, ResearchGate, and Google Scholar profiles. The team also implemented search functionality improvements by adding Pan-Galactic and publication search tabs, fixed various display issues including video display and logo problems, and synchronized training materials from external sources.

infrastructure-playbook

This week, the Galaxy Project's infrastructure-playbook repository had one merged pull request that updated workflow landing metrics. The change appears to modify how metrics are collected or displayed for workflow landing pages within the Galaxy infrastructure.

galaxy

This week, the Galaxy Project merged 28 pull requests focused on bug fixes, component migrations, and dependency updates across multiple version branches (25.0, 25.1, and 26.0). Key changes included migrating several UI components from BTable to GTable, fixing various crashes and errors (including worker segfaults on macOS, AWS Batch monitor crashes, and job destination handling issues), and updating dependencies like Pillow and cryptography. The project also addressed 16 reported issues while opening 16 new ones, with fixes covering areas like tool execution, workflow handling, user impersonation redirects, and upload functionality.

tools-iuc

This week, the Galaxy Project's tools-iuc repository merged 9 pull requests that included bug fixes for several tools (haltools, Plasmidfinder, integron finder), added CRAM file support to deepvariant, updated ToolDistillator to version 1.0.5, and bumped the bamtools version. The team also closed 14 issues, resolving problems with deepvariant CRAM support, SAMtools citation lists, RAxML parameters, and various autoupdate errors.

galaxy_codex

This week, the Galaxy Project's "galaxy_codex" repository received three updates: an automatic resources update, fixes to the lab population process and tools configuration file, and an upgrade of the Ruby setup action from version 1.287.0 to 1.288.0. A new issue was reported regarding the weekly resource fetching and community filtering process failing without proper error notifications during lab population.

brc-analytics

The brc-analytics repository added Hi-C workflows and bumped to version 0.22.0. A bug was fixed that replaced duplicate version displays with an API status icon, and issues related to release notes link visibility and tag linking were resolved.

planemo

This week, one new issue was opened in the Galaxy Project's planemo repository requesting improvements to the version linter functionality. No other development activity, pull requests, or releases occurred during this period. The repository had minimal activity with only this single issue submission.

ansible-galaxy

This week, the Galaxy Project's ansible-galaxy repository had one issue closed related to an invalid conditional. No other specific changes or pull requests were mentioned in the provided activity summary.

gxy.io

This week, one new issue was opened in the Galaxy Project's "gxy.io" repository requesting an upgrade to a newer runner. No other development activity or changes were recorded for the repository during this period.

total-perspective-vortex

This week, two new issues were opened for the total-perspective-vortex Galaxy Project repository. Users reported problems with using directory sizes in datatable entries within TPV and identified a linting failure when resubmitting jobs with increased memory allocation after failures.