Improvements
- Supports CRAM file write on queryname-based sorting. It auto-detects cram file extension on output file. 
- Adds the following new options: - --mutect-germline-resource
- --mutect-alleles
- --force-call-filtered-alleles
 
- Updates to match the baseline version v1.6. 
- Reduced reader buffer size to shorten the time it takes to start processing. 
- fq2bamfast
- Speed improvements. 
- Added support for BWA MEM options: - -B(values up to 15),- -T,- -L, and- -U.
- Added support for reads longer than 500 bp using CPU recovery mode (note that speed will be slower and memory usage will be higher). Set - --max-read-lengthto the desired max read length for the FASTQ filter.
 
- Better messaging in filehandle when reading index files to avoid user confusion. 
- Better error checking when reading FASTQ files: checks that each FASTQ read name line starts with '@'.