v482

Code changes:

• Change the hubConnect page so it no longer redirects (#29899). Max
• Improving mouseover of genePred tracks, adding hint to zoom in more to show cDNA positions, and a link to a new doc html page that explains what we mean by "phase 0/1/2" (#35756). Max
• Added right-click Track Description feature in hgTracks.js. (#31584). Galt
• BAM tracks now go into coverage mode if maxItems is exceeded. Also added a cap to the number of items that will be loaded (BAMMaxItems) (#35330). Brian
• It is now assumed that the RGB value in the ninth field of a bed should be treated as a color (#35722). Brian
• Allow .bigBed file extension to work with featureBits. Max
• Fixed hgBlat table of alignments not available once browsing. This fixes both native blat track and ct blat track (#32750). Galt
• Changes to our bottleneck system to better recognize and penalize heavy bot activity on our servers (#35729). Jonathan
• Anti-bot work: wait for 10 seconds on. Added hg.conf that triggers apache log entry when a user arrives without cookies, and added bytedance bot to robots.txt (#35585). Max
• New tool tabToBed: give it a .tsv file and it will guess what the fields with chrom, start, end, name, or give it the names of these fields and it will make an .as file and a .bed file to make a bigBed from the .tsv. Max
• GBIC changes: a few small changes for OSX, adding freetype for all linuxes, fix straw.cpp for new g++, allow builds on the beta tag when not on the beta branch for mirrors, always use mariadb and removing mysql_config dependency, removing udr, always install curl just in case, redoing the whole Dockerfile using newer commands, address the root user problem for mariadb, and other changes. Max
• Fixed buffer overflow in fixed-size mouseover buffer by making it a bigger fixed size. Mark
• "hubtools up" no longer re-uploads a file into Hubspace if it's already there. Max
• hgVai: fixed corner cases surfaced by running vai.pl on EVA snps (40 assemblies, 909M variants) (#34135). Angie
• Improvements to wuhCor1 big tree build process. Angie.

Data changes:

• MaveDB heatmap track for hg38 (#31812). Jonathan
• Adding "unusual conservation" track (#35703). Max
• Adam Sieoel's LINSIGHT track to hg19 constraint superTrack (#35730). Max
• NMD Escape track for hg38 (#33737). Max
• Added triangle decorator to ClinVar track (#35750). Max
• Fixing a panelApp bug in our otto script, CNV and STR panels were missing (#35757). Max
• Minor updates (such as adding gene name to the mouseover) to the Varaico track, which contains literature-extracted variants. Johannes
• Continuous GenArk updates and liftOver file generation (#29545). Hiram