This is primarily a security bug fix update.
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Added options to fastq to create fastq files from BC (or other)
tags. -
Samtools view has gained a -G option to exclude on all bits
set. For example to discard reads where neither end has been
mapped use "-G 12". -
Samtools cat has a -b option to ease concatenation of many
files. -
Added misc/samtools_tab_completion for bash auto-completion of
samtools sub-commands. (#560) -
Samtools tview now has J and K keys for verticale movement by 20
lines. (#257) -
Various compilation / portability improvements.
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Fixed issue with more than 65536 CIGAR operations and SAM/CRAM files.
(#667)
The samtools-1.4.1.tar.bz2 download is the full source code release. The “Source code” downloads are generated by GitHub and are incomplete as they [don't bundle HTSlib and] are missing some generated files.