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Firefly Release Notes

  • You can find Firefly builds and the notes for running Firefly on the Docker Page.
  • See Firefly Docker guidelines here.
  • To Access current (unstable) development—(Version next, unreleased)

Version 2026.1

  • 2026.1.0 — (May 7, 2026), docker tag: 2026.1.0, 2026.1, latest

This release includes Alert viewer, significant image and HiPS updates, alpha ASDF file support, background monitor and UWS improvements, major infrastructure updates, a new drawing layer, and many bug fixes.

General Features

  • Alert Viewer (Rubin only so far) — Firefly-1935 (PR, PR), Firefly-1964 (PR, PR), Firefly-1997 (PR), Firefly-2003 (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)

Images and HiPS

  • Use new WebGPU when available to process images or HiPS — 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 & UWS

  • Background Monitor: Move pct_complete to progress under uws:jobInfo — Firefly-1770 (PR)
  • Background Monitor: Handle non-table results — Firefly-1919 (PR)
  • Background Monitor: Fixed dark mode/light mode bug — IRSA-7544 (PR)
  • Background Monitor: small UI improvements — IRSA-7687 (PR)
  • UWS Client: Allow errorSummary to exist even when the phase is not ERROR — 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)

Infrastructure Updates

  • 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_client integration: Added version endpoint for validation — Firefly-1931 (PR)
  • Use MessagePack for Redis storage — Firefly-1925 (PR)
  • Improved detection of Firefly running in AWS — Firefly-1975 (PR)

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed MultiProductViewer: improved handling of calibration files — IRSA-7247 (PR)
  • Fixed MultiProductViewer: improved titling — Firefly-1936 (PR)
  • Fixed MultiProductViewer: cutout UI rounding error — Firefly-1995 (PR)
  • Fixed TAP: VizieR uploads now work — Firefly-1978 (PR)
  • Fixed Tables: column resizing after multiple sorts — Firefly-1945 (PR)
  • Fixed Tables: not able to filter some access_url columns — Firefly-2002 (PR)
  • Fixed Chart: heatmap plotting failure with bigint data — Firefly-1959 (PR)
  • Fixed Images: parsing of certain target types causing crashes; improved parsing — Firefly-1996 (PR)
  • Fixed Images: mask should be read as long not float — Firefly-1999 (PR)
  • Fixed Images: network issue: certain Rubin images not loading — Firefly-1946 (PR)
  • Fixed firefly_client integration: functions did not switch to Results tab when another tab was selected — Firefly-1833 (PR)
  • Fixed non-datalink service descriptor parsing; ZTF light curves not displaying — Firefly-1978 (PR)
  • Fixed precision handling for SizeInputField — IRSA-7653 (PR)
  • Fixed URL parsing for some legacy formats — Firefly-1958 (PR)
  • Fixed failed circular websocket reconnection attempts — Firefly-1990 (PR)
  • Fixed Upload panel should not show a column checked filter — Firefly-1977 (PR)
Pull Requests in this Release

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