Galactic Weekly: Week 13, 2026

Galactic Weekly

Summary

Repositories with activity: 22
New issues: 28
Issues closed: 40
PRs opened: 174
PRs merged: 84
Contributors: 47

Highlights

This week, 47 contributors merged 84 pull requests across 22 repositories, closing 40 issues. The core Galaxy server received numerous bug fixes and backports for the 26.0 release, addressing problems like sanitization errors, race conditions, N+1 query performance issues, and incorrect form handling, along with performance optimizations for job state summaries and API queries. Across the ecosystem, tools-iuc updated several bioinformatics tools to newer versions and added a new H. influenzae capsule typing tool, galaxy-hub migrated to Astro 6 and published the March 2026 newsletter, brc-analytics expanded end-to-end test coverage and integrated differential expression into the workflow view, and gxformat2 added support for GalaxyUserTool in workflows while modernizing its development tooling and linting infrastructure.

Most Active Repositories

Repository	PRs Opened	PRs Merged	Issues Opened	Issues Closed
galaxy	57	34	13	28
tools-iuc	27	11	1	4
galaxy-hub	13	10	0	0
brc-analytics	10	7	1	4
gxformat2	10	7	4	1
training-material	11	5	0	1
iwc	17	0	3	1
usegalaxy-tools	10	2	1	0
galaxy_codex	6	3	0	0
galaxy-k8s-boot	2	1	0	0

Repository Summaries

gxabm

This week, one new issue was opened requesting the ability to download an exported history, and one existing issue requesting the addition of a tools subcommand was closed.

brc-analytics

This week, the brc-analytics repository added several end-to-end Playwright tests, including tests for the workflow stepper and h1 visibility assertions in smoke tests, and configured these tests to run against production builds. The differential expression (DE) feature flag was removed and DE was added to the workflow view, while links to GA2 were removed and the GA2 roadmap was updated. New getting-started tutorial pages and a scribe-import skill were also added.

tools-iuc

This week, the tools-iuc repository updated several existing tools to newer versions, including deepvariant (to 1.10), rasusa (to 3.0.0), fastp (to 1.2.0), ena_upload (to 0.10.1), and abritamr (to 1.1.1). A new tool, hicap, was added for in silico typing of the H. influenzae capsule locus, and bug fixes were applied to chewbacca, revoluzer, and datamash_transpose. Additionally, coverage report testing was re-enabled with updated dependencies, and several issues—including ones related to Busco lineage data and the Add_a_column1 tool—were closed.

infrastructure-playbook

A single pull request was merged this week, adding metrics tracking specifically for data fetch tool landing pages. This change appears to introduce monitoring or analytics related to how users interact with data retrieval tools in the Galaxy infrastructure.

usegalaxy-playbook

A new issue was reported this week identifying that the wrong container is being used for the dada2-plotqualityprofile tool. No other activity (such as pull requests or commits) was noted in the repository during this period.

galaxy

This week’s work on the Galaxy repository focused heavily on bug fixes and backports to the 26.0 release branch. Fixes addressed issues including a DOMPurify sanitization TypeError in Library components, a race condition in history list search filtering, N+1 query performance problems in job state summary endpoints, broken file source template removal, incorrect optional integer form handling, and missing dataset collection state on tool rerun. Several performance optimizations were also merged, such as batch-prefetching HDCA job state summaries in history contents listings, deferring expensive role queries in the dataset edit API, and replacing BaseHTTPMiddleware with pure ASGI middleware for X-Frame-Options handling.

On the infrastructure and dependency side, the cryptography and requests Python libraries were bumped to newer versions, the Sentry JS SDK was upgraded to v10 with opt-in session replay, and the `pnpm/

training-material

This week, the training-material repository merged five pull requests covering updates to Digital Humanities content for the Galaxy Training Academy, edits to a command line video, the addition of a new contributor (maximilianh) to the contributors file, updated WorkflowHub IDs, and refreshed cached commit data. One issue requesting an update to FAQ autobuilding lists was closed.

KegAlign

A pull request was merged that fixes how the --seed parameter parses T-characters and adds support for a new --inner parameter. This was the only change to the KegAlign repository this week.

galaxy-hub

The repository was updated to remove the structured_authors field from both the codebase and content files, including the Galaxy Newsletter. The March 2026 Galaxy Newsletter was added, the GCC2026 CoFest page was updated with a Google Form link, and the site framework was upgraded from Astro 5 to Astro 6. Several smaller content edits were made, supporter images were set to eager-load, and training material files were synced.

galaxy_codex

Three pull requests were merged this week, all related to automatic resource updates. Two of these specifically updated tutorial resources, while the third was a general automatic resource update. No manual or feature-related changes were made during this period.

galaxy-k8s-boot

A single pull request was merged this week, which synchronized variable names in the repository to match those used in Galaxy. This change ensures consistency between the galaxy-k8s-boot configuration and the main Galaxy project.

gxformat2

This week, the gxformat2 repository received a batch of changes spanning tooling, features, and documentation. Linting best practices were migrated from Planemo, development tools were modernized, a pre-commit config was added, a deploy GitHub workflow was introduced, and auto-generated CLI docs were set up using sphinx-argparse. On the feature side, full support for GalaxyUserTool in workflows was added and its corresponding issue closed, and the conversion system was updated to allow pluggable state handling in both directions.

usegalaxy-tools

This week, two pull requests were merged: one installed IWC (Intergalactic Workflows Commission) tools on usegalaxy.org, and the other updated all tool repositories. A new issue was opened requesting the installation of data managers for Liana.

galaxy-language-server

The repository updated two server-side dependencies this week by merging a single pull request that bumped packages in the /server directory. No other changes were merged during this period.

ansible-galaxy

A single pull request was merged this week, adding a variable to the restart handler command that allows the default ‘graceful’ restart behavior to be overridden. This gives users more control over how the service restarts when configuration changes are applied.

iwc

This week in the IWC repository, three new issues were reported: one about a needed parameter update for the functional annotation of sequences workflow, one about a loose end appearing in workflow diagrams, and one about a problem running workflows from iwc.galaxyproject.org. One issue was closed related to making the search bar automatically scroll down to results when they are not in view.

planemo

A bug was reported where the workflow_test_init command crashes with a FileNotFoundError when workflow input labels contain forward slashes, since the slashes are interpreted as directory separators when creating file paths. No other new issues, pull requests, or commits were recorded for the Planemo repository this week.

idc

This week, a new issue was opened requesting the addition of a mocked database (release 226) for gtdb-tk to the CVMFS infrastructure. No other activity was recorded in the repository during this period.

galaxy-helm

This week, a new issue was opened regarding the retirement of Ingress NGINX, indicating that the project’s Helm chart may need to be updated to account for changes in the NGINX ingress controller’s lifecycle or replacement. No other new issues, pull requests, or merges were recorded for the repository during this period.