User facing release notes updates, images.

doc/source/releases/23.1_announce_user.rst

@@ -8,68 +8,64 @@ June 2023 Galaxy Release (v 23.1)
 Highlights
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-Carbon Emissions Reporting!
+Activity Bar Interface
+--------------------------
+
+23.1 introduces the Activity Bar, a new customizable interface element designed
+for swift navigation through various sections of the application. The feature is
+currently opt-in, and you can try it today by enabling it in User Preferences.
+Upcoming releases will enable this by default for all users, and will extend
+functionality with new activities and by allowing users to drag items such as
+datasets and workflows directly from the UI into the activity bar component.
+
+.. figure:: images/23.1-activity-bar.png
+   :alt: Screenshot of the new activity bar interface showing several options for navigation.
+
+Carbon Emissions Reporting
 ---------------------------
 
-Stay on top of your carbon emissions contributions by enabling our new reporting
-feature! Initial implementation of carbon emissions reporting has now been added
-to the job information page. Monitor your carbon footprint in real-time and
-become inspired to better your relationship with the environment! Currently,
-this feature assumes global average values for carbon intensity and power usage
-effectiveness.
+Monitor your environmental impact with our new Carbon Emissions Reporting
+feature. This feature is available on the job information page, allowing users
+to track their carbon footprint in real-time. The calculations assume global
+average values for carbon intensity and power usage effectiveness.  Monitor your
+carbon footprint and become inspired to better your relationship with the
+environment!
+
+.. figure:: images/23.1-carbon-footprint.png
+   :alt: Screenshot of the new carbon emissions reporting feature.
 
-History Archival Feature!
+History Archival Feature
 -------------------------
-Your history menu now has a new option to move a history out of your active histories
-and into an archive! When archiving a history, you will be presented with two
-options: either to “Keep the Storage Space” or to “Free the Storage Space”
-taken up by the history. Keeping the storage space will keep the contents of the
+The history menu has a new option to move a history out of your active histories
+and into an archive.  When archiving a history, you will be presented with two
+options: either to “Keep the Storage Space” or to “Free the Storage Space” taken
+up by the history. Keeping the storage space will keep the contents of the
 history where they are, allowing them to be restored at any moment, but will
 prevent the UI from allowing certain operations on the history. Freeing the
 storage space will prompt you to package and export the history to a permanent
-remote source as a backup snapshot, and then purge the history and its contents
-to free up storage space. There will be a simple list, titled Archived
+remote source as a backup snapshot, and then will purge the history and its
+contents to free up storage space. There will be a simple list, titled Archived
 Histories, for you to explore your archived histories and restore and reimport
 them, as needed!
 
-Galaxy Notification System!
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-The previous Galaxy notification system has been overhauled to support more
-complex scenarios and features! As users, you will now have more control of your
-notifications, including the option to subscribe/unsubscribe from certain types
-of notifications. The new notification system will also support notification
-broadcasting, allowing the Galaxy team to send server-wide announcements, such
-as User Agreement updates and server maintenance notifications.
-
-Power User Features
-===================
-
-Attention long time Galaxy users! Are you looking to enhance your skills? Check
-out these new features to take your Galaxy skills to the next level!
-
-Visualize HDF5 Datasets!
+Visualize HDF5 Datasets
 ------------------------
 
 Users can now visualize their HDF5 datasets directly in Galaxy, thanks to the
 integration of the h5web visualizer (https://h5web.panosc.eu/)!
 
-Create New Activity Bar Items!
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-
-The new option to create activity bar items allows users to drag items,
-including datasets and workflows, from the UI directly into the activity bar
-component! In addition, the context menu has been augmented, now allowing to
-search activities.
-
-Invocations Related to a History!
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+.. figure:: images/23.1-hdf5.png
+   :alt: Screenshot of the new HDF5 visualization plugin.
 
-Users now have the option to see invocations related to a specific history in
-Galaxy!
-
-Before:
-
-After:
+Galaxy Notification Framework
+-----------------------------
+Galaxy now contains a universal notification framework.  This will facilitate
+sending notifications about a wide variety of scenarios like job completion,
+artifact sharing, server updates, and more.  Users have control over their
+notifications, including the option to subscribe/unsubscribe from certain types
+of notifications.  The new notification system also supports broadcast
+notifications, allowing administrators to send server-wide announcements, such
+as server maintenance or downtime notifications.
 
 
 New Visualizations