- 2026.1.0 — (tentatively planned for May 7, 2026), Docker tag:
nightly
This release includes significant image and HiPS updates, alpha ASDF file support, background monitor and UWS improvements, major infrastructure updates, a new drawing layer, and an alert viewer.
- Alert Viewer (Rubin only so far) — Firefly-1935 (PR, PR), Firefly-1964 (PR, PR)
- Improved Firefly on iPad and iPhone — Firefly-1947 (PR)
- New box mode for Search Select tool (currently only used with SPHEREx) — Firefly-1942 (PR)
- Use WebGPU when available to process images — Firefly-1897 (PR)
- Images: Optimized tile generation, transfer, and memory usage — Firefly-1926 (PR), Firefly-1949 (PR)
- Images: Support mask cubes — Firefly-1921 (PR)
- Images: Support Rubin v2 mask header format — Firefly-1974 (PR)
- Images: ASDF files (alpha support) — Firefly-1931 (PR), Firefly-1963 (PR)
- HiPS: Add Ecliptic coordinate system — Firefly-1973 (PR)
- Add legend support — Firefly-1924 (PR)
- Background Monitor: Move
pct_completetoprogressunderuws:jobInfo— Firefly-1770 (PR) - Background Monitor: Handle non-table results — Firefly-1919 (PR)
- Background Monitor: Fixed dark mode/light mode bug — IRSA-7544 (PR)
- UWS Client: Allow
errorSummaryto exist even when the phase is notERROR— IRSA-7589 (PR) - UWS Client: Apply destruction time for job cleanup and update job retention policy — Firefly-1830 (PR)
- UWS Client: Fixed handling of ZIP encoding — Firefly-1976 (PR)
- Added GitHub Actions to build and publish to GHCR — Firefly-1951 (PR)
- Added GitHub Actions to build Helm charts — Firefly-1966 (PR)
- Security: Upgraded Java packages and fixed high and critical CVEs — Firefly-1982 (PR)
firefly_clientintegration: Added version endpoint for validation — Firefly-1931 (PR)- Use
MessagePackfor Redis storage — Firefly-1925 (PR) - Improved detection of Firefly running in AWS — Firefly-1975 (PR)
- Fixed network issue: certain Rubin files not loading — Firefly-1946 (PR)
- Fixed MultiProductViewer: improved handling of calibration files — IRSA-7247 (PR)
- Fixed MultiProductViewer: improved titling — Firefly-1936 (PR)
- Fixed
firefly_clientintegration: functions did not switch to Results tab when another tab was selected — Firefly-1833 (PR) - Fixed TAP: VizieR uploads now work — Firefly-1978 (PR)
- Fixed non-datalink service descriptor parsing; ZTF light curves not displaying — Firefly-1978 (PR)
- Fixed precision handling for SizeInputField — IRSA-7653 (PR)
- Fixed table column resizing after multiple sorts — Firefly-1945 (PR)
- Fixed URL parsing for some legacy formats — Firefly-1958 (PR)
- Fixed heatmap plotting failure with
bigintdata — Firefly-1959 (PR) - Fixed cutout UI rounding error — Firefly-1995 (PR)
- Fixed parsing of certain target types causing crashes; improved parsing — Firefly-1941 (PR)