• LabKey Server SDMS
• Distribution Changes and Important Upgrade Notes
• Client APIs and Development Notes
• Other LabKey Products:
• Sample Manager Release Notes
• LabKey LIMS Release Notes
• Biologics LIMS Release Notes

LabKey Server SDMS

Premium Edition Feature Updates

• Include "Calculation" fields in lists, datasets, sample, source, and assay definitions. (docs)
• Support for using a Snowflake database as an external data source is now available. (docs)
• The "External Tool Access" page has been improved to make it easier to use ODBC and JDBC connections to LabKey. (docs)
• Administrators can generate a report of file root sizes across the site. (docs)
• Reporting usage statistics to LabKey can be enabled without also enabling upgrade banners. (docs)
• SAML authentication uses RelayState instead of a configuration parameter, and the configuration interface has been streamlined. Also available in 24.7.7 (docs)
• Administrators can save incomplete authentication configurations if they are disabled. Also available in 24.7.4 (docs)
• Sample Manager Feature Updates
• LabKey LIMS Feature Updates
• Biologics LIMS Feature Updates

Community Edition Updates

• Linking Sample data to a visit-based study can now be done using the visit label instead of requiring a sequencenum value. (docs)
• Date, time, and datetime fields are now limited to a set of common display patterns, making it easier for users to choose the desired format. (docs)
• A new validator will find non-standard date and time display formats. (docs)
• Use shift-click in the grid view customizer to add all fields from a given node. (docs)
• When a pipeline job is cancelled, any queries it has initiated will also be cancelled. (docs)
• Users can include a description for future reference when generating an API key. (docs)
• Folder file root sizes are now calculated and shown to administrators. (docs)
• Administrators can provide a set of allowed external sources of data. (docs)
• Sending of the Server HTTP header may be disabled using a site setting. (docs)
• Some "Experimental Features" have been relocated to a "Deprecated Features" page to better describe their status. (docs)
• When a user changes their database password, all current sessions associated with that login are invalidated. (docs)

Distribution Changes and Upgrade Notes

• LabKey Server embeds a copy of Tomcat 10. It no longer uses or depends on a separately installed copy of Tomcat.
• LabKey Cloud subscribers have been upgraded automatically.
• For users with on-premise installations, the process for upgrading from previous versions using a standalone Tomcat 9 has changed significantly. Administrators should be prepared to make additional changes during the first upgrade to use embedded Tomcat. (docs)
• For users with on-premise installations who already upgraded to use embedded Tomcat will follow a much simpler process upgrade to 24.11. (linux | windows)
• The process for installing a new LabKey Server has also changed significantly, making it simpler than in past releases. (docs)
• All specialty assays (ELISA, ELISpot, Microarray, NAb, Luminex, etc.) are now only distributed to clients actively using them. Administrators will see a warning about unknown modules when they upgrade and can safely remove these unused modules. Please contact your Account Manager if you have questions or concerns.
• HTTP access logging is now enabled by default and the recommended pattern has been updated. (docs)
• Users of proxies or load balancers may wish to add this to their accesslog.pattern to capture the IP address of the originating client: %{X-Forwarded-For}i
• MySql 9.0.0 is now supported. (docs)

Deprecated Features

• The "ms2" module is no longer included in most distributions. Administrators who see a warning after upgrading about this module being unknown can safely delete it. Contact your Account Manager if you have questions or concerns. (doc archive)
• Support for Microsoft SQL Server 2014 has been removed. (docs)
• Some older wiki macros were removed; the list of supported macros is in the documentation.
• Support for "Advanced Reports" has been removed.
• Support for the "Remote Login API" has been removed.
• The "Vaccine Study Protocol" web part and editor interface, deprecated in 2015, is still available behind an experimental flag but will be removed in a future release. It has been replaced with the "Manage Study Products" interface. (docs)
• Support for bitmask (integer) permissions has been removed. Developers can learn more below.
• Future deprecations: These features will be deprecated in the 25.3 (March 2025) release and removed completely in 25.7. Contact your Account Manager if you have questions or concerns.
• Additional date, time, and datetime parsing patterns. Selecting a date parsing mode (Month-Day-Year or Day-Month-Year) will still be supported. (docs)
• You will no longer have the "Advanced import options" of choosing objects during import of folders, as well as having folder imports applied to multiple folders. (docs)
• "Assay Progress Reports" in studies. (docs)

Client APIs and Development Notes

• Version 3.4.0 of Rlabkey is available. (docs)
• Client API calls that provide credentials and fail authentication will be rejected outright and immediately return a detailed error message. Previously, a call that failed authentication would proceed as an unauthenticated user which would fail (unless guests have access to the target resource) with a less informative message. This change is particularly helpful in cases where the credentials are correct but do not meet password complexity requirements or are expired.
• Version 3.0.0 of our gradlePlugin was released. It's earliest compatible LabKey release is 24.8 and it includes a few changes of note for developers. A few examples are here, and more are listed in the gradlePlugin release notes:
• The AntBuild plugin has been removed, so we no longer have a built-in way to detect modules that are built with Ant instead of Gradle.
• We removed support for picking up .jsp files from resources directories. Move any .jsp files in a resources directory under the src directory instead.
• Support for bitmask (integer) permissions has been removed. Class-based permissions replaced bitmask permissions many years ago. Developers who manage .view.xml files should replace <permissions> elements with <permissionClasses> elements. Code that inspects bitmask permissions returned by APIs should switch to inspecting permission class alternatives. (docs)
• Documentation has been added to assist you in determining which packages and versions are installed for R and python. (R info | python info)
• API Resources

Sample Manager

The Sample Manager Release Notes list features by monthly version and product edition.

LabKey LIMS

Announcing LabKey LIMS! Learn more here:

• LabKey LIMS Software

Biologics LIMS

The Biologics LIMS Release Notes list features in addition to those in LabKey LIMS.

Previous Release Notes: Version 24.7