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layout: post
title: JBrowse 1.16.3 maintenance release
date: 2019-02-20
tags: ["News","Software releases"]
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Hello all, this is a small maintenance release that most importantly addresses compatibility that was causing setup.sh to fail on many installations by fixing a missing BioPerl package that was removed from their core distribution. If you are stuck with an older JBrowse release, please follow instructions listed here https://github.com/GMOD/jbrowse/issues/1313

*   [JBrowse-1.16.3.zip](https://github.com/GMOD/jbrowse/releases/download/1.16.3-release/JBrowse-1.16.3.zip) - minified release
*   [JBrowse-1.16.3-dev.zip](https://github.com/GMOD/jbrowse/archive/1.16.3-release.zip) - use this if you modify jbrowse source code or use plugins
*   [JBrowse-1.16.3-desktop-win32-x64.zip](https://github.com/GMOD/jbrowse/releases/download/1.16.3-release/JBrowse-1.16.3-desktop-win32-x64.zip)
*   [JBrowse-1.16.3-desktop-linux-x64.zip](https://github.com/GMOD/jbrowse/releases/download/1.16.3-release/JBrowse-1.16.3-desktop-linux-x64.zip)
*   [JBrowse-1.16.3-desktop-darwin-x64.zip](https://github.com/GMOD/jbrowse/releases/download/1.16.3-release/JBrowse-1.16.3-desktop-darwin-x64.zip)




## Bug fixes

 * Fix BioPerl setup after changes to the BioPerl distribution caused
   setup.sh to fail in all past JBrowse versions (<a href="https://github.com/gmod/jbrowse/issues/1310">issue #1310</a>, <a href="https://github.com/cmdcolin">@cmdcolin</a>)

 * Fix issue with NeatCanvasFeatures not drawing gradients on some
   features. Thanks to <a href="https://github.com/mara-sangiovanni">@mara-sangiovanni</a> for reporting (<a href="https://github.com/gmod/jbrowse/issues/1311">issue #1311</a>,
   <a href="https://github.com/cmdcolin">@cmdcolin</a>)

 * Fix issue for exporting GFF3 for some nested attributes by dumping
   JSON into the value field. Thanks to <a href="https://github.com/dionnezaal">@dionnezaal</a> for reporting
   (<a href="https://github.com/gmod/jbrowse/issues/1309">issue #1309</a>, <a href="https://github.com/cmdcolin">@cmdcolin</a>)