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+This is the v1.3 release of khmer featuring a new FAST[AQ] parser from the
+SeqAn project.
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+Docs at: https://khmer.readthedocs.org/en/v1.3/
+
+## New items of note:
+
+Fixes the two multithreaded reading of sequence files issues: FASTQ parsing and
+the recently found read dropping issue. Several khmer scripts now support
+reading from non-seekable plain and gziped FAST[AQ] files (a.k.a pipe or
+streaming support). @mr-c #642
+
+## Notable bugs fixed/issues closed:
+
+restore threading to load-graph.py #699 @mr-c
+
+## Additional fixes/features
+
+increase filter_abund.py coverage #568 @wrightmhw 
+Provide scripts/ testing coverage for check_space_for_hashtable #386 #678 #718
+@b-wyss 
+Use absolute URI in CODE_OF_CONDUCT #684 @jsspencer 
+give SeqAn credit #712 @mr-c
+Added testing to make sure all sandbox scripts are import-able and
+execfile-able. #709 @ctb 
+reduce memory requirements to run tests #701 @ctb 
+Two minor bug fixes to sandbox scripts #706 @ctb 
+Upgrade of trim-low-abund for better, more profitable streaming. #601 @ctb
+Add --force or --expert or --ignore flag to all khmer scripts that do sanity
+checking #399 #647 @jessicamizzi 
+Add XDECREF for returned read tuple in ReadParser.read_pair_iterator() #693
+@mr-c @camillescott 
+
+## Known issues:
+
+All of these are pre-existing.
+
+Some users have reported that normalize-by-median.py will utilize more memory
+than it was configured for. This is being investigated in #266
+
+If your k-mer table is truncated on write, an error may not be reported; this
+is being tracked in https://github.com/ged-lab/khmer/issues/443. However, khmer
+will now (correctly) fail when trying to read a truncated file (See #333).
+
+Paired-end reads from Casava 1.8 currently require renaming for use in
+normalize-by-median and abund-filter when used in paired mode. The integration
+of a fix for this is being tracked in #23
+
+Some scripts only output FASTA even if given a FASTQ file. This issue is being
+tracked in #46
+
+A user reported that abundance-dist-single.py fails with small files and many
+threads. This issue is being tracked in #75
+
+## Contributors
+
+@mr-c, @ctb, @camillescott, @b-wyss, @wrightmhw, @jsspencer