Hail 0.2.5 patch notes

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0.2.5

Released 2018-12-07

New features

  • (#4845) The or_error method in hl.case and hl.switch statements now takes a string expression rather than a string literal, allowing more informative messages for errors and assertions.
  • (#4865) We use this new or_error functionality in methods that require biallelic variants to include an offending variant in the error message.
  • (#4820) Added hl.reversed for reversing arrays and strings.
  • (#4895) Added include_strand option to the hl.liftover function.

Performance improvements

  • (#4907)(#4911) Addressed one aspect of bad scaling in enormous literal values (triggered by a list of 300,000 sample IDs) related to logging.
  • (#4909)(#4914) Fixed a check in Table/MatrixTable initialization that scaled O(n^2) with the total number of fields.

Bug fixes

  • (#4754)(#4799) Fixed optimizer assertion errors related to certain types of pipelines using group_rows_by.
  • (#4888) Fixed assertion error in BlockMatrix.sum.
  • (#4871) Fixed possible error in locally sorting nested collections.
  • (#4889) Fixed break in compatibility with extremely old MatrixTable/Table files.
  • (#4527)(#4761) Fixed optimizer assertion error sometimes encountered with hl.split_multi[_hts].