What’s new?

Version 1.2 introduces the following features and enhancements:

• The ability to access and view Whole Tale without signing in

• Public container image registry

• Automated recorded execution via recorded runs

• The ability to override default configurations, upload folders, and view instance logs,

• Performance improvements for image building and caching

• Updates repo2docker to version 2022.10, adding support for Julia

• Integration with new third-party platforms including the Confirmable Reproducible Research Environment, OpenICPSR, and DERIVA

For a complete list of features and bugfixes, see the v1.2 release notes.

Planned Features

For a complete list of current and planned features, see the release schedule.

• Archival storage of container images

• User interface to configure the environment

• Support for user-contributed templated environments

• Improved composability of environments

• Improved accessibility including use of VS Code

• Increased resources (CPU, memory) and GPU support

• Metadata enhancements including citations, licenses

• Computational provenance recorder using eBPF

Limitations

• The Whole Tale dashboard works best in Chrome. There are known issues in Firefox.