Software Release Notes

This page contains the release notes for the current release. See the subpages for historic release notes.

On December 20, 2025, AWS will be retiring the F1 instances, referred to in this guide as FPGA. By November 1st, 2025 support of F1 (FPGA) instances will be decommissioned in ICA to ensure timely switchover. New versions of existing DRAGEN workflows have been created to support F2 (FPGA2) instances. Please consult the DRAGEN BSSH/ICA end of life roadmap for more information on switching over.

Please migrate to F2 for improved capacity and performance with up to 40% reduced turnaround time for analysis.

The resource requirements FPGA1, FPGA2, GPU and software-only have been removed from the Analysis configuration screen as the transition period for which it was needed has ended. These settings were reset during this update, ensuring your pipeline will continue working.

2025 Nov 4 - ICA v2.40.1

• Flow

  • Fixed an issue where ICA analyses that download large inputs could fail when downloads took longer than one hour.

2025 Oct 30 - ICA v2.40.0

New Features and Enhancements

• General

  • Project information field is superseded by Short description. Information which has already been filled out in the past is retained.

• Data Management

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• Bench

  • When you have multiple Bench entitlements, all their related resources are now taken into account for Bench usage. You no longer have to select the appropriate entitlement.

• Flow

  • Output files are now displayed on a separate tab after completion of your analysis.

  • The resource requirements FPGA1, FPGA2, GPU and software-only have been removed from Analysis configuration as the transition period for which it was needed has ended. If it has been configured, it is reset during this update, ensuring your pipeline will continue working.

  • It is now possible to choose during analysis configuration, where the logs from your analysis should be stored.

  • New lifecycle controls for pipelines are introduced, allowing pipeline developers to mark pipelines as deprecated or archived.

    • Deprecated pipelines remain usable but display a banner message to signal their upcoming retirement, helping users transition smoothly.

    • Archived pipelines are fully retired and can no longer be used to run analyses.

• Cohorts

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Fixed Issues

• General

  • Email address fields now support uppercase characters.

  • Fixed an issue which could result in empty bundle list being displayed during project creation while there were bundles available.

• Base

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• Bench

  • When creating Bench clusters, the default ephemeral storage size is 0. If you want to use ephemeral storage, you select the checkbox next to ephemeral storage on the Bench workspace configuration and provide a storage size.

  • A verification has been added to see if a Docker image supports web access in order to set the allowed options from which you can choose in Bench when creating your workspace with that Docker image.

• Data Management

  • Project contributors can now delete data from the project via the UI. Previously, this was already possible from the API/CLI.

• Flow

  • Added validation if output/logs folders already exist when entering a folder name in analysis.

  • Fixed an issue where a -1 would appear in the sample column after linking and unlinking data.

  • Improved information on API usage on the API reference page.

• Cohorts

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