Create v1.2.0.md, draft of release announcements

[garrettjstevens]

For reference, this is the changelog so far, not including anything that might get merged before the release on Monday.

Unreleased (2021-04-28)

🚀 Enhancement

• core
  • #1125 Export SVG (@cmdcolin)
  • #1867 Virtualized tree for tracklist to support having thousands of tracks (@cmdcolin)
  • #1660 Allow connections to have multiple assemblies (@garrettjstevens)
  • #1864 Add Material UI's DataGrid to re-exports (@garrettjstevens)
  • #1875 Make drawer widget titles stay visible when scrolling inside the widget (@cmdcolin)
  • #1877 Add ability to copy the text produced by the feature details sequence panel to MS Word/Google Docs and preserve styling (@cmdcolin)
  • #1854 Make "About track" dialog available from tracklist and for non-LGV tracks (@cmdcolin)
  • #1853 Add mouseovers in feature details that show field descriptions for VCF fields (@cmdcolin)
• Other
  • #1892 Create new JB2 plugin store (@elliothershberg)
  • #1901 Make using --out for add-assembly create output directory if it does not exist and fix outputting to symlink (@cmdcolin)
  • #1850 Add true breakend ALT strings to the feature details panel (@cmdcolin)
  • #1878 Add --delete to set-default-session, fix --session (@garrettjstevens)
  • #1861 Change Alignments track "Fade mismatches by quality" setting to a separate config param and made it less strict (@cmdcolin)

🐛 Bug Fix

• core
  • #1924 Fix import of BED and navToLocString from spreadsheet views (@cmdcolin)
  • #1918 Fix issue with some falsy values being hidden in feature details (@cmdcolin)
  • #1911 Fix breakpoint split view visualizations for files that need ref renaming (e.g. chr1 vs 1) (@cmdcolin)
  • #1904 Fix issue with synteny polygons displaying slightly offset (@cmdcolin)
  • #1884 Fix rIC ponyfill for use on Safari (@cmdcolin)
• Other
  • #1912 Fix reloading of local sessions when using React.StrictMode (@cmdcolin)
  • #1900 Make clicking away from autocomplete popup on track container work (@cmdcolin)
  • #1878 Add --delete to set-default-session, fix --session (@garrettjstevens)
  • #1871 Fix crash on dotplot/linear synteny import form and when closing linear synteny track (@cmdcolin)
  • #1860 Fix alignments read filter jexl syntax (@cmdcolin)

📝 Documentation

• #1914 Use MDX to add proper image captions in web and pdf documentation (@cmdcolin)
• #1855 Add download page in website header and new super-quick-start guide (@cmdcolin)

🏠 Internal

• Other
  • #1926 Update website to link to demos on cloudfront for better compression (@cmdcolin)
  • #1868 Export XYPlotRenderer and configSchema (@elliothershberg)
  • #1863 Update @gmod/indexedfasta (@cmdcolin)
  • #1795 Make LinearAlignmentsDisplay fully configurable in the UI (@garrettjstevens)
  • #1822 Let React LGV navigate without setting displayedRegion first (@garrettjstevens)
• core
  • #1888 More lazy loading of react components to reduce bundle size (@cmdcolin)
  • #1790 Allow MainThreadRpcDriver to skip serialization during RPC, improving main-thread rendering performance (@garrettjstevens)

Committers: 3

• Colin Diesh (@cmdcolin)
• Elliot Hershberg (@elliothershberg)
• Garrett Stevens (@garrettjstevens)

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Codecov Report

Merging #1929 (8fd8df7) into main (2bcdfe2) will decrease coverage by 0.00%.
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[cmdcolin]

This may be minor patch worthy...certainly isn't just bugfixes :)

[rbuels]

closed in favor of #1935