0.5.1 - 2026-02-17

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

Download salti 0.5.1

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salti-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.xz	Apple Silicon macOS	checksum
salti-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.xz	Intel macOS	checksum
salti-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip	x64 Windows	checksum
salti-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz	x64 Linux	checksum
salti-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.xz	x64 MUSL Linux	checksum