In this News and Views episode, Phil Ewels, Chris Hakkaart and Marcel Ribeiro-Dantas discuss the hottest topics in the Nextflow world.

Welcome back to the Summer Season

We’re back with another season of the coolest Nextflow podcast!

• The plan is to have a new episode every two weeks
• We will focus more on technical content, specially new Nextflow features
• Semi-regularly, we’ll have developer guests to talk about changes and updates

23.04.x NF releases

• Multiple things that were discussed in the past and publicized in edge releases finally made their way in a stable release
  • this includes the fair process directive, Fusion, the Flux executor, Sarus container engine and the Spack package manager
• Apptainer is a new container engine supported by Nextflow
• New config option conda.channels
• Support to rclone and fcp for file transfer (stageOutMode)
• Support for AWS S3 Glacier
• Support for S3 storage with publishDir

23.05.0-edge NF release

• Custom root directory for relative paths: NXF_FILE_ROOT
• New process directive: arch for Spack
• New CLI option: -depth for cloning git repos
• New channel operator: splitJson
• Documentation is finally Markdown!

Recent/upcoming events

• Bytesize: Workflow safety and immutable objects - 23rd May
• Bytesize: nf-core/quantms - 30th May
• 🇪🇸 BARCELONA HACKATHON & SUMMIT: October 16-20, 2023
• 🇺🇸 BOSTON HACKATHON & SUMMIT: November 28-30, 2023