Join us in this episode of the Channels podcast as Geraldine Van der Auwera and Phil Ewels recap of some of the biggest features to be added to Nextflow in 2023 and take a look at some of the things coming in 2024.
Last time we were on a podcast together (Episode 27), we talked a lot about what’s been happening in the nf-core community, mostly, so in this episode we talk about how Nextflow itself has been evolving. We go over some highlights from 2023 and then talk a bit about what’s coming next.
- 2023
- Fusion support on Azure Batch, Google Batch, SLURM, LSF
- Discussed in Podcast Episode 14
- Spack integration
- Markdown docs, developer docs
- Mentioned in Episode 14
- Didn’t mention in the recording, but there are new docs aimed at people wanting to develop Nextflow code too 🎉
- New
nextflow inspectcommand- See Nextflow docs
- Channel “topics”
- See Nextflow docs
- AWS Fargate for compute tasks
- Phil got this wrong in the recording. The head-node-only support in Seqera Platform did come in 2023 (see blog post), but AWS Fargate support for compute jobs did manage to sneak in to the
23.12.0edge realease, just before Christmas. - See Nextflow docs
- Phil got this wrong in the recording. The head-node-only support in Seqera Platform did come in 2023 (see blog post), but AWS Fargate support for compute jobs did manage to sneak in to the
- Fusion support on Azure Batch, Google Batch, SLURM, LSF
- 2024
- Job arrays (PR #3892)
- Discussed in Episode 15
- Garbage collection (aka work directory cleanup) (Issue #452 and PR #3849)
- Discussed in Episode 15
- Command line interface v2 (PR #3600
- Also discussed in Episode 15
- Nextflow packaging (Issue #2951)
- Workflow inputs and outputs schema (Issue #4669)
- Module configuration / config v2 (Issue #2723)
- Job arrays (PR #3892)