Release Notes 4.7 (July 2026)

Aqua AI Agent Improvements

We've expanded Aqua's capabilities to better support interactive development and environment management.

• Cloud Workstation control — Aqua can now start, stop, and execute commands within your Cloud Workstation on your behalf, while respecting workspace ownership, permissions, and lifecycle rules.

• Post-install script creation — Aqua can now create and edit postInstall scripts when additional environment setup is required beyond standard package managers.

• Bioconductor package support — Aqua now installs Bioconductor packages through the Environment Editor, eliminating the need to manually modify the Dockerfile for these packages.

These enhancements allow Aqua to assist with a wider range of development workflows while providing more accurate and automated environment configuration.

Custom Metadata - Support for Large Lists

We've enhanced custom metadata to better support large value lists.

• Autocomplete support for metadata values.

• Search within metadata filter lists containing long lists of values.

• Internal scrolling for long lists of values in the Admin Panel.

These improvements make it significantly easier to work with metadata fields containing hundreds or thousands of values, improving usability and encouraging standardized metadata.

Expanded Dedicated Machine Support

We've expanded the available Dedicated Machine options with support for additional AWS EC2 instance families and sizes.

• New instance families: c8i, m8a, m8i, m8i-flex, and r8a

• Additional GPU option: g6e.12xlarge

These additions provide greater flexibility when selecting compute resources, allowing users to better match infrastructure to their workload requirements.

Improved S3 Path Entry

Code Ocean now automatically detects and parses full S3 paths into the correct Bucket and Path fields when creating Data Assets. This supports both AWS S3 and S3-compatible endpoints, making Data Asset creation easier for users who may be less familiar with S3 bucket and path conventions.

Infrastructure Updates

System Services Containerization

Continued the migration of system components from the AMI into containers as part of our ongoing containerization effort. This release containerizes system initialization and the initialization of third-party services such as Gitea and Superset, improving consistency, maintainability, and simplifying future updates.

Source AMI

al2023-ami-2023.12.20260629.0-kernel-6.1-x86_64