v450

Code changes:

• Added code to show an interactive tutorial to new users on hgTracks (#30670). Chris
• Added little trash icons next to custom tracks for quicker custom trash disposal (#31504). Max
• 8 columns are now allowed instead of 6 in the tracks table under the track image on hgTracks, and also restricting the shortLabel width to 16 em (=characters) (#30882). Max
• Added a new -bed option to bigBedToBed, also removing the -maxItems option as it never worked and is not used anywhere in our code (#31531). Max
• cartReset now resets the entire localStorage. For now, this only resets the status of the "don't show this again buttons" (#31503). Max
• Added a note about _alt _fix and _hap to hgTracks (#31121). Max
• Fixed up notification box to show multiple different notifications, make notifications hideable/showeable via localStorage (#30670). Chris
• Added silent Google reCAPTCHA v3 to the user suggestion form (#31325). Hiram
• Fixed a few places where we did not encode user inputs (#31338). Chris
• Enhanced initial geoIpToCountry command from Galt to allow processing all IP addresses in all apache logs archived here. Hiram
• Made a utility that uses our existing geoIp infrastructure to lookup the country code from an IP address (IPv4 or IPv6). We are using it to identify the UCSC Genome Browser usage even when Google Analytics is being blocked in some regions of the world. Galt
• Ongoing painful work to port hgGeneGraph to python3 (#31563). Max
• Ongoing work on summary tracks and blat displays for Human Pangenome Reference Consortium alignments to hg38. Brian
• Added mechanism to pslMap to fix problems with mapping prot-prot via prot-na alignment by explicitly specifying the type of alignments. Specifying types of input PSLs adds new checking for unsupported combinations. Mark
• Continuous GenArk process improvements (#29545). Hiram

Data changes:

• Added common name translation table in the trackDb.241way.ra to allow showing the common names for the 241-way Zoonomia track on hg38 (#31528). Hiram
• Improvements to wuhCor1 big tree build process. Angie.