44a7bbc4c8aa983e1f075c25c240e6f479e99dc3 max Wed Jul 8 09:24:27 2026 -0700 gentle intro to v500 release message diff --git src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/newsarch.html src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/newsarch.html index b226b8fc7b6..21b1e0272da 100755 --- src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/newsarch.html +++ src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/newsarch.html @@ -55,30 +55,44 @@ <p>Smaller software changes are not announced here. A summary of the three-weekly release changes can be found <a target=_blank href="https://genecats.gi.ucsc.edu/builds/versions.html">here</a>. For the full list of our daily code changes head to our <a href="https://github.com/ucscGenomeBrowser/kent/commits/master" target=_blank>GitHub page</a>. Lastly, see our <a href="credits.html" target="_blank"> credits page</a> for acknowledgments of the data we host.</p> <!-- ============= 2026 archived news ============= --> <a name="2026"></a> <a name="070726"></a> <h2>Jul. 7, 2026 UCSC Genome Browser reaches version 500</h2> <p> +The UCSC Genome Browser consists of software and genome annotation data and +changes are released differently. Some annotation tracks are updated +automatically every day or few weeks, but most are curated manually, released +when they are ready, announced on this page and +<a href="https://groups.google.com/a/soe.ucsc.edu/g/genome-announce">our announcement email list</a>. +The software changes, however, are released in chunks, every three weeks, as +software "releases". These are announced on the +<a href="https://groups.google.com/a/soe.ucsc.edu/g/genome-mirror">genome-mirror email list</a>, +and only the most important ones on the page that you are reading here. +We increase the version number of the software for every release. You can always find the current +version of the Genome Browser software on the <a href="../../cgi-bin/hgTracks?hgTracksConfigPage=Configure"> +Genome Browser Configuration Page</a>. +</p> +<p> Today, we are releasing version 500 of the UCSC Genome Browser. We are glad this milestone falls on July 7, the 26th anniversary of the day in 2000 when the first publicly available assembly of the human genome working draft was posted on the web here at UC Santa Cruz. </p> <div class="text-center"> <img src="../images/newsArchImages/UCSCReleaseDownloads.png" alt="Graph of total web traffic at UC Santa Cruz in 2000, with a large spike when the human genome assembly became available online"> <p class="gbsCaption"><em>Total web traffic at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2000. The spike near July 7 shows the surge of downloads when the first human genome assembly was posted. When the genome became available online, all other web activity at the university shrank to the background.</em></p> </div>