Newsletter - November 2026

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2 blog posts, 2 advisories, 21 pipeline releases.

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1st November 2026

Blog posts

nf-core/tools - 4.2.{0,1}
Next stop: pipeline metro maps
21 Oct 2026 · by mashehu

A close-up picture of the metro map for São Paulo

Kicking off the Benchmarking SIG Monthly Meetings
Join us for our new monthly meetings, starting with variant benchmarking
15 Oct 2026 · by kubranarci, georgiakes

Advisories

highSecurity
Secrets in the debug log artifact of the AWS test workflows
The AWS test workflows in the pipeline template uploaded a debug log containing secrets as a public workflow artifact, letting anyone signed in to GitHub read them

criticalSecurity
Bot token theft via the pipeline template's fix-linting workflow
A workflow in the pipeline template ran a contributor's own lint configuration with access to a shared bot token, letting an outside attacker run code on nf-core's CI and steal the token

New pipeline first releases! 🎉

These pipelines just had their very first release.

nf-core/bacmodelv1.0.0v1.0.1
Systems-based bacterial functional modeling pipeline

nf-core/datasyncv1.0.0v1.0.1v1.0.2
nf-core/datasync is a system operation pipeline that provides several workflows for handling system operation / automation tasks

nf-core/plasmodiumdrugresv1.0.0
Pipeline for analyzing drug resistance markers from Plasmodium microhaplotype data. Translates variants into amino acid changes at drug resistance loci and estimates allele frequencies and prevalences at both single-locus and multi-locus levels. Microhaplotype data can be supplied in the form of an allele table or a PMO file.

nf-core/provenancereportv1.0.0
Generate reproducible Quarto reports together with an audit trail of inputs, checksums, software versions, runtime environments, and provenance metadata.

nf-core/tumourevov1.0.0
Analysis pipeline to model tumour clonal evolution from WGS data (driver annotation, quality control of copy number calls, subclonal and mutational signature deconvolution)