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Features Summary
🪵 Latch Changelog — August 2025
🎨 Data Portal:
📊 Plots:
- Performance improvements: faster H5 viewer loading
- UI upgrades: Introduced full screen mode; cleaned up interface which should make it easier to navigate
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed permission issues in the IGV widget for read-only Plots when files used in these Plots are made public on Latch Data.
- Plots should not disappear when user refreshes the page
- Malformed anntiles build that caused 19K-cell dataset to take >1 minute to load in read-only Plot notebooks.
🚲 Workflows
- [MAJOR / Default Behavior Change] Abort running workflows when credit cap is reached [Note: The default behavior introduced in this feature was not ideal. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused and are currently in the process of adding a toggle, so you can customize the default behavior for your workspace. See the planned features section for September 8-13]
- [MAJOR] Added option to use spot instances as the default for your workflow. This is enabled on a case-by-case basis, please contact us if you want to use spot versus on-demand. While spot instances may lead to 3-5X cost reduction, it is flakier and requires careful engineering around pods pre-emption and workflow dying, generally not recommended for long-running, multi-day workflows.
- Added
--dockerfile
flag for latch register