Clarity LIMS v5.4

Published: 2021

Latest Release: v5.4.0

These Release Notes describe the key changes made to software components for BaseSpace Clarity LIMS since version 5.3. This is an optional software update for customers interested in the new features available with this release.

If you are upgrading from a version prior to v5.3, review the release notes for v5.3 for a list of features and bug fixes introduced in that version.

New Features

• Genealogy View — Provides an interactive and hierarchical view of the history of an experiment processed through BaseSpace Clarity LIMS. Genealogy view shows the relationship between submitted samples, derived samples, and related outputs. Information is presented in a hierarchy, starting with the submitted sample and progressing through all steps performed on derived samples. Genealogy view can also be used for troubleshooting and to help those upgrading from Clarity LIMS v4.x to the latest version of v5.x in the cloud.

• Email notifications for LabLink notes — LabLink will send an email notification when a new Project Note or Sample Note is created on the Project Overview or Sample tab. This feature is not active by default.

• LDAP support for LabLink users — LabLink now supports LDAP authentication. Customers with LDAP authentication enabled for Clarity LIMS are now able to sign in to LabLink.

• Security improvements — When upgrading to v5.4, for password management, users must now provide an email address and reset the password.

Bug and Security Vulnerability Fixes

• Move to Next Step when uploading a measurement file to Standard QC step artifact.

• Remove from Workflow assigned by Script is not recognized when used on a Pooling Step.

• Running Automations on Step Entry with AutoPlacement and different destination container type no longer results in a 500 error message.

• The Show History feature correctly displays the QC step values.

• The Custom Fields screen can now be accessed by LabLink when Numeric Range fields only have a lower limit.

Known Issues

• You may experience a decrease in performance when handling large pools of samples (approximately 4000) from the Clarity LIMS interface in pool creation or the creation of output container.

• When using the Processes REST API endpoint with a projectname filter on projects with more than 500 samples, the query returns an incomplete set of data.