[Preview] QIIME 2 2025.7 development changelog

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:exclamation: Important :exclamation:

The following is an early developer preview of the changes expected in 2025.7

This post is a live-document which will be updated throughout our development cycle. Any links in this topic will be broken until the release is officially published. When we are ready for release, we’ll copy this changelog and create a new post in the Announcements category.

Developer Project Board:

QIIME 2 2025.7 Project on Github

:police_car_light: Important Announcements :police_car_light:

Interface Changes coming in QIIME 2 2025.10 :boom:

Python Versioning for Upcoming Full Releases :snake:

  • Target for 2025.10: Python
  • Target for 2026.4: Python

:bangbang: Breaking Changes :bangbang:

Here are the highlights of the release! :sparkler:

qiime2.org Updates :house:

QIIME 2 View Updates :mag:

QIIME 2 Library Updates :books:

QIIME 2 Forum Updates :page_facing_up:

Distribution Updates :package:

Framework Updates :deciduous_tree:

Interface Updates :tv:

Plugin Updates :electric_plug:

  • q2-types

    • @cherman2 made Dist1Ds convertable to metadata :file_cabinet:

  • q2-quality-control

    • @jordenrabasco made various improvements to the decontam-score-viz visualizer, including a default sequence table when representative sequences are not provided, paginated sequence tables, sortable sequence table columns, and a more performant sequence table sorting algorithm.

Community Plugin Updates :electric_plug:

Documentation Updates :open_book:

Docker Container Updates :jar: