Changelog

Track the evolution of the improVerse ecosystem

v4.4.0 - Current Release

Released: October 2025

🚀 Major Features

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    RStudio Integration: Manage your repository and workflows directly within RStudio, including step creation, version control, and workflow execution
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    Workflow Templates: Extract workflow templates from existing analyses to standardize and accelerate project initiation
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    Import/Export Workflows: Share complete analyses between improve repositories with full lineage preservation. Attach your files as links and map your tools.
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    Enhanced improVerticles: New component library with prebuilt repository and runserver integrations.

âš¡ Improvements

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    DMG navigation: Navigate lineage, usage, parent steps and child steps directly from a step
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    Environments: Workflows and workflow templates are presented as environments making their usage more transparent.
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    Parametrisation: Workflows can expose parameters for easily integrating them in step execution and automation
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    Documentation: Reference and Vignette documentation added as pkgdown to all R packages

🔧 Technical Updates

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    improveR Package: new 4.4 API enhancements for improved performance and usability, including batch operations and enhanced error handling
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    improVerticles Package: Galaxy framework components, encrypted WebSocket messaging, inlet system
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    Star integration: Web control for improve, centralized token coordination, flexible IDE connector (currently RStudio, VS Code and Positron coming soon)
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    CLI tools: Seemless integration with the improve CLI tools to checkin and manage your repository from the command line
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    improveRtestsupport: Helpers for setting up fully automated testing