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0.8.0 - 2026-02-26

23 Mar 19:52
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Release Notes

Added

  • Installer bash script for easy installation on Linux.
  • filter-gaps command to remove columns that contain a % of gaps. Translation is disabled if a gap filter is active
    and vice-versa
  • libmsa lib crate to handle alignment parsing and manipulation
  • mouse selection now selects the full AA codon in the translated view
  • Ruler markers to indicate filtered columns. An arrow on the ruler will point to a location where 1 or core columns
    have been removed due to filters. ~ characters will mark a region where lots of columns have been filtered and would
    be too crowded to render lots of arrows. You might expect big jumps in absolute positions in these regions.
  • Total length is now displayed on the top status bar
  • Improved filter text in the bottom status bar, which shows the number of filtered rows/columns and the filter
    parameters (e.g. gap percentage or regex pattern)
  • Human panic messages

Changed

  • Moved core alignment functions to libmsa
  • Each status bar has separation of concerns for a more consistent UI. The top bar is for "global" concerns, i.e number
    of alignments, visible region etc
    • The bottom bar is for "local" concerns, i.e the current selected position and sequence
  • Under the hood changes to how the caching worked - now cache mantains blocks of 5000nts instead of moving window +
    region. This simplifies the handling and makes it easier to cache new metrics in the future.
  • Renamed set-filter to filter-rows to be explicit what it does
  • Renamed full alignment type to generic
  • Renamed aa type to protein
  • jump-position will jump to next visible position if the provided position is filtered out
  • You can now middle mouse pan while minimap is open
  • Most app errors now raise notifications on the bottom bar

Removed

  • Removed musl builds due to the complexity of supporting OpenSSL

Fixed

  • Further omptimised dist build profile
  • Removed the need for vendored OpenSSL
    • Together with the previous optimisations, this reduces the dist binary size from 13mb to 6.9mb
  • Conservation in translated view now shows conservation of the amino acid in that position

Install salti 0.8.0

Install prebuilt binaries via shell script

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/Sam-Sims/salti/releases/download/salti-0.8.0/salti-installer.sh | sh

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0.7.1 - 2026-02-21

22 Feb 15:20

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Release Notes

Fixed

  • Optimised release build settings according to ratatui recommendations. This reduces the binary size from 110mb to
    10mb (whoops) #7

Download salti 0.7.1

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0.7.0 - 2026-02-21

21 Feb 20:06
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Release Notes

Added

  • Self update check on startup, with a notification in the status bar if an update is available. This checks the latest
    release on crates.io and compares it to the current version. It does not automatically download or install updates.
  • check-update command to manually trigger an update check.
  • Under the hood a more general notification system, which can be used for other types of notifications in the future.
    Currently it is only used for update notifications and command palette errors.

Changed

  • Command errors use the new notification system for display errors.

Fixed

  • cargo clippy errors.

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0.6.0 - 2026-02-21

21 Feb 15:14
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Release Notes

Added

  • Minimap for easy panning along the length of the alignment. Press m to open and click and drag to move around. The
    minimap colours are created by sampling the alignment in regions and picking the most common colour.
  • Full sequence type. This adds support for the full, renderable ASCII alphabet - which enables support for arbitrary
    alignments. Salti will still try and infer the file type, but now samples both NT characters and AA characters. The
    most prevalent "wins". If none meet the threshold it falls back to the Full mode. Full is also manually
    toggleable.
    • This introduced a new colour palette for full, which is hard-set across every theme. In full mode only the UI
      elements will change with the theme.
    • Note in Full mode conservation + translation is disabled.

Fixed

  • toggle-translate now returns a visible error message when sequence type is not DNA

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0.5.1 - 2026-02-17

17 Feb 17:07

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Note: 0.5.0 musl builds failed due to missing libssl depdendency- which has been fixed in 0.5.1. This means 0.5.0 is missing a release

Release Notes

Added

  • set-diff-mode command that replaces the previous 2 commands toggle-reference-diff and toggle-consensus-diff. It supports the same 3 modes as before: off, reference, and consensus.
  • tokyo-night theme, available via set-theme tokyo-night.
  • solarized-light theme, available via set-theme solarized-light.
  • terminal-default theme, which uses terminal-provided ANSI colours and defaults, available via set-theme terminal-default.
  • Support loading alignments over HTTP/HTTPS, by providing a URL to the load command, e.g. :load https://example.com/alignment.fasta.
  • Support for compressed input files - just provide the gzipped file as input, e.g. alignment.fasta.gz.
    • Supported compression formats are gz, zstd, lzma, bz2 and bgz
  • Support for loading alignments via SSH e.g :load ssh://user@host/path/to/alignment.fasta

Changed

  • Switch from needletail to paraseq for fasta parsing. This enables a lot of great features such as compressed file support (thanks to niffler too!), and native HTTP/HTTPS and SSH loading.
    • Although it supports parallel processing - salti uses the single threaded API at the moment, for the above features.

Removed

  • toggle-reference-diff - see Added above
  • toggle-consensus-diff - see Added above

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0.4.0 - 2026-02-16

16 Feb 15:56

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Release Notes

Added

  • Middle-mouse drag panning in the alignment pane.
  • Conservation bar chart rendering in the consensus pane. The calculation algorithim is the same as Jbrowse MSA - that is to say that it is calculated as shannon entropy of the column, normalised to [0,1] by max entropy for the column's symbol count (e.g. 4 for DNA, 20 for AA).

Changed

  • Reworked async handling into a more unified system for both consensus and conservation.
  • File loading is now an App command, not Core.
  • Rendering now redraws on state changes only, rather than every frame tick.
  • Refined the UI, removed the outer frame border, and converted status lines into dedicated top/bottom bars. This removed the double borders around the app, and hopefully gives a cleaner feel.

Fixed

  • Mouse selection now functions correctly in the pinned rows area (previously pinned sequences were not selectable).

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salti-0.3.0

12 Feb 19:50
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[0.3.0] - 2026-02-12

Added

  • Command palette overlay (:) that centralises all features and replaces previous popups
  • Regex-based sequence filtering (set-filter, clear-filter).
  • Sequence pinning controls (pin-sequence, unpin-sequence)
  • Reference sequence controls (set-reference, clear-reference) and reference-diff rendering mode (toggle-reference-diff).
  • Consensus-diff rendering mode (toggle-consensus-diff).
  • Runtime alignment loading from within the app (load-alignment / load).
  • Startup without an input file (app can launch idle and load later via command palette, see above).
  • Mouse selection support, including Ctrl+drag box selection.
  • Translation frame control (set-translation-frame) and sequence type override (set-sequence-type).
  • Consensus method selection (set-consensus-method with majority and majority-non-gap).
  • Theme system with set-theme command (currently everforest-dark).
  • Optional debug logging via --debug, with logs written to salti.log

Changed

  • Migrated to ratatui 0.30.0.
  • Refactored architecture into modules: core (logic/state), ui (rendering), and overlay (overlays).

Removed

  • stdin alignment input support (- as file input).
  • help and jump widgets in favour of command palette

salti-0.2.0

15 Jun 16:56
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[0.2.0] - 2025-06-15

Added

  • stdin support for reading files
  • Amino Acid colour schemes based on CLUSTAL colours
  • Auto-detection of DNA/AA input file

salti-0.1.0

10 Jun 21:04

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