Hail 0.2.6 patch notes

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0.2.6

Released 2018-12-17

New features

  • (#4962) Expanded comparison operators (==, !=, <, <=, >, >=) to support expressions of every type.
  • (#4927) Expanded functionality of Table.order_by to support ordering by arbitrary expressions, instead of just top-level fields.
  • (#4926) Expanded default GRCh38 contig recoding behavior in import_plink.

Performance improvements

  • (#4952) Resolved lingering issues related to (#4909).

Bug fixes

  • (#4941) Fixed variable scoping error in regression methods.
  • (#4857) Fixed bug in maximal_independent_set appearing when nodes were named something other than i and j.
  • (#4932) Fixed possible error in export_plink related to tolerance of writer process failure.
  • (#4920) Fixed bad error message in Table.order_by.