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Summary
Stack-610 is a stability-focused release. It restores table queries that broke in the previous release for projects with a column named "cohort", and it fixes a problem that caused choice options to be lost when building form templates in the ACT dashboard.
Alongside these fixes, the release modernizes the discussion forum thread list in the Synapse web app, strengthens the reliability of the data lineage tracking that underpins the upcoming Cohort Builder. Key areas of work were table querying, curation tools, discussion forums, and platform reliability.
In total, 4 tickets were completed in this release.
No breaking changes or required user actions are included in this release. Users who added quotation marks around a "cohort" column as a temporary workaround can keep them; quoted column names continue to work.
Affected Users & Systems
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Who/What |
Impact |
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Researchers and pipelines querying Synapse tables (web, Python and R clients) |
Queries that filter or select on a column named "cohort" work again without special quoting. |
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ACT members using Form Templates |
Single-choice and multiple-choice fields now keep their options when a template is saved and remain editable. |
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Project teams using Discussion forums |
The forum thread list in the Synapse web app has been replaced with a newer, more consistent component. |
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Platform / Cohort Builder |
Behind-the-scenes reliability improvements to data lineage tracking; no user-facing change. |
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RAPID program |
Design proposal for data processing completed; no user-facing change. |
Deprecated or Breaking Changes
There are no deprecated features or breaking changes in this release.
New Features
This release contains no net-new user-facing features. See Fixes & Improvements below.
Fixes & Improvements
Table queries on "cohort" columns work again
The previous release introduced new query syntax to support cohorts, which unintentionally caused queries referring to a column with the reserved word "cohort" to fail unless the name was put in quotes. This affected existing scripts and automated pipelines, including the GENIE BPC quality-assurance pipeline. This release restores the earlier behavior, so those queries run as before, with no changes needed to existing code.
Who benefits: Researchers, data managers and automated pipelines that query tables containing a "cohort" column.
Choice options are saved in ACT form templates
When ACT members built a form template with a single-choice or multiple-choice field, the list of choices was dropped on save, and the field could no longer be edited in the form editor. Choices are now saved correctly, and these fields can be reopened, edited and saved as new template versions.
Who benefits: ACT members designing and maintaining form templates.
Refreshed discussion forum thread list
The list of discussion threads shown on project and forum pages in the Synapse web app now uses the same modern component used elsewhere in Synapse. This gives a more consistent look and behavior across the site and makes forums easier to maintain and improve going forward.
Who benefits: Anyone browsing or participating in project discussion forums.
More reliable data lineage tracking for Cohort Builder
As part of the Cohort Builder 2.0 effort, the system that records where data in derived tables and views comes from has been tightened. If the information it relies on is ever missing or inconsistent, the process now stops with a clear error instead of quietly using possibly out-of-date information. This is an internal safeguard with no user-facing impact, and it helps ensure access controls on derived data stay accurate.
Who benefits: Data stewards and future Cohort Builder users, through more trustworthy access controls.
RAPID data processing design
The engineering team completed a design proposal for how data will be processed for the RAPID program. This is planning work with no user-facing impact in this release, and it lays the foundation for upcoming RAPID capabilities.
Who benefits: RAPID program stakeholders.