v1.5.8

This release adds two important features for preventing bots from registering: a reCAPTCHA challenge on registration and a mechanism for administrators to restrict which email providers can be used for creating new accounts. To accommodate registries outside North America, we added support for internationalized domain names. Read more about this feature here.

We also addressed numerous bugs with the GO term recommendation feature. It is now more reliable and provides feedback to the user when terms cannot be recommended. It can detect cases where, for example, there are no GO terms available for a given model organism.

A few more issues were resolved:

• fix a bug when creating or revoking an access token from the admin section: the session was inadvertently set to read-only
• reduce memory usage when parsing the gene2go file by ignoring irrelevant lines
• fix display of non-grouping terms on the public profile: it now reflects the user selection instead of enumerating all the options
• limit which fields can be set when registering or creating a service account
• update yauaa to 7.24.0
• ignore TIER3 genes from GO terms with more than 50 associated genes; the term can be added but its genes won't