Changelog
Track the evolution of the improVerse ecosystem
v4.4.0 - Current Release
Released: October 2025
🚀 Major Features
- ✓ RStudio Integration: Manage your repository and workflows directly within RStudio, including step creation, version control, and workflow execution
- ✓ Workflow Templates: Extract workflow templates from existing analyses to standardize and accelerate project initiation
- ✓ Import/Export Workflows: Share complete analyses between improve repositories with full lineage preservation. Attach your files as links and map your tools.
- ✓ Enhanced improVerticles: New component library with prebuilt repository and runserver integrations.
âš¡ Improvements
- • DMG navigation: Navigate lineage, usage, parent steps and child steps directly from a step
- • Environments: Workflows and workflow templates are presented as environments making their usage more transparent.
- • Parametrisation: Workflows can expose parameters for easily integrating them in step execution and automation
- • Documentation: Reference and Vignette documentation added as pkgdown to all R packages
🔧 Technical Updates
- • improveR Package: new 4.4 API enhancements for improved performance and usability, including batch operations and enhanced error handling
- • improVerticles Package: Galaxy framework components, encrypted WebSocket messaging, inlet system
- • Star integration: Web control for improve, centralized token coordination, flexible IDE connector (currently RStudio, VS Code and Positron coming soon)
- • CLI tools: Seemless integration with the improve CLI tools to checkin and manage your repository from the command line
- • improveRtestsupport: Helpers for setting up fully automated testing