sourmash v5.0 draft release notes¶
Draft text: We are pleased to announce release 5.0 of sourmash! This release contains many feature improvements and new functionality, as well as many breaking changes with sourmash 4.0
Please see our migration guide for guidance on updating to sourmash v5, and post questions about migrating to sourmash 5.0 in the sourmash issue tracker!
Breaking changes for 5.0¶
Numerical output and search results are mostly unchanged¶
several
tax metagenomeoutput formats will produce different results: in particular, thelineage_summaryandkronaformats now use abundances, andtax metagenomerequires abundance-weighted gather results. You can use--ignore-abundto recover the v4 behavior. See #3711 for details.