Feature updates and improvements​

Compute environments​

• Grouped compute environment selects by platform, listed the workspace primary environment first, and added an in-panel search that matches on name, region, and platform.
• Changed the pre-selected compute environment in launch forms from the alphabetically first environment to the workspace primary environment.

General​

• Removed the count badges from the Runs, Reports, Datasets, and Projects tabs.

Bug fixes​

Credentials​

• Fixed the Password field helper text on the GitLab and Gitea credential forms to state that a personal access token must be entered in both the Access token and Password fields, and that the Password field is required for Nextflow versions before 26.04.

Pipelines​

• Fixed the launch form to preserve the output directory when resuming a run, instead of publishing to the pipeline default.
• Fixed user-typed launch parameters being discarded when a config profile or revision change re-fetched the parameters.
• Fixed schema default parameters being dropped from the submitted parameters after selecting a config profile.
• Fixed nested parameter groups being submitted as null, which disabled Launch with no way to clear the error.

Feature updates and improvements​

Studios​

• Added filtering to the Studios list, with the selected filters persisted across navigation.

Compute environments​

• Added an OS disk size setting to Azure Cloud compute environments.
• Added an optional Region field to the Azure credential forms, with autocomplete suggestions and free-text entry for regions outside the catalog.

Pipelines​

• Added support for Nextflow v26.08.0-edge.
• Improved launch performance by reducing the number of SCM calls made on the launch path.

Data Explorer​

• Added search to the data link selector in the bucket action form.

Platform API​

• Added an optional creationSource query parameter to the data links list endpoint, so clients can request only user-created or only cloud-discovered links.
• Added the ability to regenerate presigned upload URLs for an in-progress AWS upload through the existing Data Explorer upload endpoint.

Co-Scientist​

• Added a usage display to the chat panel.
• Docked the chat panel beside the page content instead of overlaying it.
• Improved the conversation history list and chat input responsiveness.

Bug fixes​

Compute environments​

• Fixed false "region not found" warnings on Azure credentials by probing Azure Batch in the credential's own region instead of westeurope, and by validating Batch access on the compute environment rather than the credential.
• Fixed compute environment deletion being possible while creation was still in progress.
• Fixed the compute environment details page to redirect to the compute environment list after a deletion.
• Fixed forged Azure Cloud compute environments losing their Nextflow configuration.
• Fixed runs being flagged for attention when a UserData script failed.

Credentials​

• Fixed credential validation to back off and escalate probes that fail permanently, instead of retrying them at the same rate.

Monitoring and observability​

• Fixed the runs toolbar disappearing in loading and empty states.

Credits​

• Fixed the credits report download to show progress and offer a cancel control.

Platform API​

• Fixed GA4GH WES to return 404 instead of 500 for an unknown run ID on run describe, status, and cancel.
• Fixed the OpenAPI reference to declare optional response properties as nullable, so conforming validators and generated clients no longer reject valid responses.

General​

• Fixed the default workspace preference not being cleared correctly.

Feature updates and improvements​

Language features​

• Added an agent primitive to run AI agents as first-class Nextflow tasks by @pditommaso in #7477
• Added syntax error reporting for an unexpected character in a gstring by @bentsherman in #7353
• Updated the formatter to preserve comments by @ewels in #7346

Configuration​

• Added the seqera.executor.maxCpusPerUser config option by @jonmarti in #7367
• Added the singularity.resourceLimits config option by @bentsherman in #7352
• Split CLI config handling out of ConfigBuilder by @bentsherman in #7373

S3​

• Dropped transient object tags when publishing files to S3 by @pditommaso in #7344

Kubernetes​

• Treated a missing k8s config scope as an empty one by @pditommaso in #7452

Plugins​

• Aligned the Seqera executor maxSpotAttempts and Fusion handling by @pditommaso in #7412
• Bounded Seqera executor scheduler requests with a request timeout by @pditommaso in #7466
• Stopped fabricating a memory request for the Seqera executor by @pditommaso in #7488
• Used the Platform user identity for the Seqera executor userName label by @pditommaso in #7413
• Used registry config for plugin repos by @jorgee in #7180

General​

• Accepted the http requesting protocol for HTTPS proxy CONNECT tunnel authentication by @bentsherman in #7369
• Added --console=plain to Gradle commands in the Makefile by @pditommaso in #7400
• Added componentName to the module view command output by @pditommaso in #7385
• Added a note about AI co-authorship to CLAUDE.md by @bentsherman in #7357
• Added smolvm container engine support by @pditommaso in #7386
• Added support for authenticated forward HTTP/HTTPS proxies across the client stack by @pditommaso in #7331
• Aligned the build to the Java 25 toolchain, targeting Java 17 via --release by @pditommaso in #7370
• Cached the task context for exec tasks by @pditommaso in #7499
• Documented the exit logic in the task wrapper script by @bentsherman in #7290
• Honored COLUMNS when determining ANSI output width by @Eldergenix in #7144
• Pre-pulled the integration tests container by @pditommaso in #7432
• Refactored HubOptions from a trait into a record by @bentsherman in #7372
• Removed dead SpuriousDeps.cmdCloud reflection by @bentsherman in #7371
• Reported the task directives read while the command is rendered by @bentsherman in #7506
• Separated the CLI from the runtime by @bentsherman in #5971
• Updated the CI bucket to s3://nextflow-oss-ci by @bentsherman in #7440
• Used the WireMock self-contained distribution in nf-tower by @pditommaso in #7485
• Used command -v instead of which in the launcher Java lookup by @pditommaso in #7433

Dependencies​

• Bumped Groovy 4.0.33 by @pditommaso in #7429
• Bumped Netty and Apache HttpComponents to patched releases by @pditommaso in #7484
• Updated the docs site dependencies to patched releases by @pditommaso in #7486

Bug fixes​

Language features​

• Fixed a function call in a process directive value with the v2 parser by @bentsherman in #7374
• Fixed lint reporting of excluded paths by @bentsherman in #7354
• Fixed a parameterized type cast in a process body by @bentsherman in #7382
• Fixed a variable incorrectly resolved to an included function name by @bentsherman in #7358

Configuration​

• Fixed config rendering of nested closures by @bentsherman in #7375
• Fixed plugin blocks incorrectly merged in the v2 config parser by @bentsherman in #7350

Azure​

• Fixed detection of Azure virtual directories without a trailing slash by @adamrtalbot in #6428

Wave​

• Fixed a spurious 'Unrecognized config option' warning for wave.build.compression and wave.build.conda by @pditommaso in #7355

General​

• Fixed cache invalidation for module binaries by @FloWuenne in #6914
• Fixed independently-verified findings from a security audit by @ewels in #7503
• Fixed a negative duration error on a short run by @bentsherman in #7351
• Fixed the PBS Pro server status query by @jscgh in #7366
• Fixed the publish mode override when re-publishing an existing file by @bentsherman in #7364
• Fixed a race condition calling workflow onComplete twice by @bentsherman in #7349
• Fixed tests failing on macOS and on hosts with NXF_REGISTRY_TOKEN by @pditommaso in #7457
• Fixed workflow metadata when failOnIgnore is true by @ehsanestaji in #7356
• Guarded the trace log against string formatting errors by @bentsherman in #7347
• Prevented a world-readable race window when storing local secrets by @aknownuser in #7307
• Reverted the stream swap after the redirect to .command.out and .command.err by @tcezard in #7300

Full changelog: https://github.com/nextflow-io/nextflow/releases/tag/v26.08.0-edge

Feature updates and improvements​

Pipelines​

• Updated the bundled Nextflow version to 25.10.6.

Bug fixes​

Data Explorer​

• Fixed the IGV genome viewer failing to load reference genomes in Data Explorer by signing reference genome URLs.
• Fixed IGV genome viewer rendering in Data Explorer, which no longer depends on an externally hosted genome registry.
• Fixed IGV previews of Google Cloud Storage files in Data Explorer returning an authorization error, by signing those URLs with V4 signatures.
• Fixed IGV previews in Data Explorer failing at high zoom levels by signing index URLs independently of their data file URLs.

Upgrade notes​

No breaking changes. Standard upgrade procedure applies.

Feature updates and improvements​

Compute environments​

• Added an optional KMS key ARN to AWS Batch compute environments, so pipeline secrets in AWS Secrets Manager can be encrypted with a customer-managed key instead of the AWS-managed default.

Access control​

• Updated the copy and API URL chip on the Access tokens page.

General​

• Added the page number and search terms to paginated list URLs, so list state survives back-navigation and list URLs are shareable.

Bug fixes​

Compute environments​

• Fixed AWS Cloud head job failures returning an empty log page when the compute environment's IAM instance profile has no role attached.
• Fixed compute environment create and update accepting credentials already recorded as invalid or soft-deleted, and update resetting a credential's status without checking it.
• Fixed exhausted Google Cloud IAM retries to report a meaningful error, and added jitter to the retry backoff.

Data Explorer​

• Fixed tab flicker and a full-width action button in the file browser.
• Fixed IGV reference genome URLs not being signed, and corrected IGV rendering.
• Fixed an error when listing data in workspaces with auto-discovery disabled.

Monitoring and observability​

• Fixed the Runs tab pagination being scoped incorrectly on the project details page.
• Removed the ambiguous "last run" chips from the project header.

Feature updates and improvements​

Compute environments​

• Added a maxCpusPerUser setting to cap per-user vCPU usage in compute environments.
• Standardized head node instance type helper text across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud compute environment forms.

Pipelines​

• Added support for Nextflow v25.10.6 and v25.10.7.

General​

• Removed the redundant Projects section from the workspace side navigation.

Bug fixes​

Studios​

• Fixed Studios row card horizontal scrolling when the sidebar is expanded on small screens.

Compute environments​

• Fixed GCP pipeline secrets to be pinned to the compute environment region.
• Fixed GCP IAM policy write conflicts during Forge compute environment creation.

Pipelines​

• Fixed shared pipeline resolution by passing the source workspace ID.

Datasets​

• Fixed dataset queries to exclude deleted runs.

Labels​

• Fixed generic label editing to no longer drop project labels.

Co-Scientist​

• Fixed the Co-Scientist portal web session link.

Feature updates and improvements​

Compute environments​

• Added support for private Azure Container Registry (ACR) image pulls on Azure Cloud.

Studios​

• Added the ability to display logs for the latest Studio run.
• Added support for applying custom CA configuration to Studios.

Co-Scientist​

• Added the ability to select Co-Scientist conversation history.
• Added page context and screenshot sharing to Co-Scientist chat.

Projects​

• Refined project details workflows.

Credits​

• Added audit log events for the self-serve credit purchase lifecycle.
• Added a root endpoint to cancel purchases stuck in the PENDING state.

General​

• Aligned the key-value date search filter hint with its control.

Bug fixes​

Compute environments​

• Fixed duplicated AWS Batch compute environments carrying a stale ec2KeyPair value by reconciling select values against loaded options.
• Prevented orphaned agent session-expiration tasks from flooding the scheduled task pool.

Studios​

• Fixed flickering of Studio environment variables.

Seqera AI​

• Surfaced the server error reason in Co-Scientist chat.

Security​

• Redacted tokens and secrets from application logs.

General​

• Fixed dark-theme issues from the semantic color token migration.

Feature updates and improvements​

Access control​

• Enabled IdP claims mapping by default for Enterprise.
• Added an organization allowlist to the IdP claims-mapping feature flag.
• Added a warning when revoking IdP group delegation.
• Added audit logs for SCIM token events.
• Added audit logging for team IdP group changes.
• Added configurable OIDC scopes via TOWER_OIDC_SCOPES.

Compute environments​

• Added bring-your-own networking support for Azure Cloud compute environments.

Bug fixes​

Access control​

• Fixed membership revocation by treating absent IdP group claims as empty.
• Fixed IdP group mapping visibility to refresh when toggling SSO.
• Fixed the IdP reconciler to create UserRole entries for workspace visibility.

Compute environments​

• Fixed end-to-end GCP Cloud compute environment support for Workload Identity Federation (WIF) credentials.
• Fixed GCP Batch error reporting to surface actionable API errors instead of a misleading WIF hint.
• Fixed xpack-google secret resolution by setting GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT on the GCP Batch head job.

Monitoring​

• Fixed an OptimisticLockException when deleting audit log v2 records.

Upgrade notes​

No breaking changes. Standard upgrade procedure applies.

Feature updates and improvements​

Studios​

• Added the ability to mark Studios as favorites, persisted per user.
• Added the ability to cancel Studios stuck in the stopping state.

Pipelines​

• Added a pipeline version ID column to the pipeline versions list.

Data Explorer​

• Added object last-modified timestamps in Data Explorer.

General​

• Aligned global search with the lineage query DSL.

Bug fixes​

Pipelines​

• Fixed pipeline version updates to baseline against the original compute environment.
• Fixed the optimization banner not showing when relaunching a run from a shared pipeline.
• Fixed Nextflow version selection so a version can be chosen when the source launch pinned none.

Feature updates and improvements​

General​

• Consolidated installation capability toggles under wave.capabilities.* and added a strict environment that disables them all by @pditommaso in #1098
• Added the ability to disable the Wave direct image pull path so callers must use freeze mode by @gavinelder in #1089
• Reduced log noise from expected Platform-connectivity errors in the token watcher by @pditommaso in #1085
• Documented the workflow-bound ephemeral token lifecycle by @pditommaso in #1084

Dependencies​

• Upgraded Micronaut to 4.10.17 to patch jackson-databind (COMP-1957) by @cristianrcv in #1091

Bug fixes​

General​

• Fixed freeze and mirror images being served through the Wave proxy token path by @gavinelder in #1087
• Fixed the Wave release workflow to run only on master and release-* branches (DEVOPS-1531) by @ShahzebMahmood in #1072

Full changelog: https://github.com/seqeralabs/wave/compare/v1.36.0...v1.37.0