Release Notes Clarity LIMS v6.2.1

Published: July 30, 2024

Last Updated: June 07, 2024

Latest Patch: 6.2.1

These Release Notes describe the key changes made to software components for Clarity LIMS v6.2.1. The Clarity LIMS v6.2.1 patch release supersedes v6.2.0. It is intended for customers on or migrating to Clarity LIMS v6.2.0.

This release resolves customer-reported issues related to the following functions:

• Search-indexer performance

• Basic search failure when searching with multiple custom fields in the system

• Necessary handling of controls for a configured step

New Features

There are no new features added with this release.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where the search-indexer did not quickly consume messages from the queue. This issue caused data in the system to be non-searchable.

• Fixed a bug where the bulk indexing for a project, container, step, and file failed due to a limitation in memory space for search-indexer. This bug occurred when the indexing batch size was too large. Indexing bulk size can now be modified with an attribute in /opt/gls/clarity/search-indexer/conf/search-index-config.properties.

• Fixed a bug where the basic search failed when searching with large numbers of custom fields in the system.

• Fixed a bug where details about the step failed to show when selecting the LIMS ID link for steps in the Advanced Search results.

• Fixed a bug where controls and samples must be added in a certain order for the configured step. This issue caused an error that prevented the configured protocol step from starting.

• Fixed a bug where a step cannot be started when controls and samples are in the standard step and the Enable QC flag is set to Yes.

Known Issues

• There can be additional or missing search results when using Date Received of a sample as one of the search criteria in Advanced Search when the client and server are in different time zones.

• Multiple accounts that share an email address only receive a reset password email for one of the accounts when a reset password request is made using Email information.

• Users with the Read-Only permission do not have access to Advanced Search.

• {ProjectName} in the {ProjectName} token appears as duplicated when there is more than one sample in a step.

• On the Place Samples screen, the sample well position in the source container takes precedence in the placement order of the destination plate when placing samples from the Sample View List table. This placement order change only happens when samples are transferred from more than one source container. If the Sample View List table is sorted by a specific column, the order of the listed samples is ignored when they are placed in a destination plate.

• The config slicer tool will takes longer time (~8 times) to import a config slice into instance with Clarity LIMS v6.2 when compared to earlier versions (v6.1 and below).​

Additional Notes

• Customers connecting remotely to PostgreSQL database need to make sure that their JDBC driver is compatible with the PostgreSQL version used.

• For on-premise deployments, Clarity LIMS v6.2.1 is qualified to run with the following server OS versions:

  • Oracle Linux v8.8 and v8.9 (64-bit)

  • RedHat Enterprise Linux v8.8 and v8.9 (64-bit)

• Security vulnerabilities in PostgreSQL 15.x have been addressed. PostgreSQL 15.2–15.6 is at a low risk of security vulnerabilities for customers on Clarity LIMS v6.2.1.

• PostgreSQL 15.2 and 15.6 are now qualified to run in Clarity LIMS v6.2.1.

• PostgreSQL 15.13 has been assessed to be at low risk of security vulnerabilities and have shown to have no functional impact on Clarity LIMS v6.2.1.