Release Status¶

Arvados is still in beta, but can be used for day to day production use. If you are interested in helping to design and improve Arvados, please join us on IRC or on the mailing lists.

All core components have been implemented:

• REST API server
• Client-side pipeline manager
• Workbench web application
• Keep server
• Crunch job manager

Some components are still in the process of being implemented. We think it's important to describe them to establish scope. We also hope to attract early feedback.

• Lightning
• Compact genome format

APIs are in active development.

• REST API is getting stable but isn't at 1.0 yet
• Keep client API is stable, but system-facing API (e.g., related to garbage collection) are still in development.
• Crunch v1 API (job task environment) is mostly stable

SDKs are in active development.

• Rails SDK (an ActiveRecord-like interface) is not yet packaged separately from the Workbench app.
• Ruby SDK is stable but lacks a native Keep client.
• Python SDK (based on the Google API client) is stable but should gain an alternative (less verbose) calling syntax and better integration of data APIs with Collections.
• Command line tool should gain an alternative (less verbose, less quoting-intensive) calling syntax.

Documentation is in active development.

• Tutorials and examples are continuously improved as APIs improve and stabilize
• Install docs are terse but functional
• API docs need to be filled in (many models are currently documented only as source code in /services/api/)
• Admin docs are a placeholder

Last update: February 2015