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What’s New in LabKey 25.7

July 22, 2025

About LabKey

We’re delighted to announce the release of LabKey 25.7.

This release includes updates to SDMS, Community Edition – SDMS, Sample Manager, LIMS and Biologics LIMS.

See the full Release Notes 25.7 (July 2025) for more information.

 

Highlights of Version 25.7

SDMS

  • All LabKey products now default to a strong Content Security Policy (CSP), providing additional layers of security for users and data. These features can be accessed by admins and developers. 
    • A new utility is available to identify and eliminate CSP violations in wikis, participant views, and study descriptions.
    • Improved tools for reviewing reported violations from browsers.
  • Stronger authentication options, such as the option to remember trusted browsers for TOTP and supporting Microsoft’s passwordless authentication via SAML single sign-on.
  • Stronger validation for acceptable field and data type names.

Community Edition of SDMS

  • A simpler path to install via Docker is now available for SDMS Community Edition installs, with a video walkthrough and documentation.
  • All LabKey products now default to a strong Content Security Policy (CSP), providing additional layers of security for users and data. These features can be accessed by admins and developers. 
    • Improved tools for reviewing reported violations from browsers.
  • Stronger validation for acceptable field and data type names.

Sample Manager and LIMS

  • Now use lineage to help generate aliquot sample identifiers.
  • Better track your administrative changes by providing a reason for updating Source Types, Sample Types and more.
  • Behind-the-scenes improvements for strengthening reliability, quality, and performance.

Biologics LIMS

  • Various improvements to data capture from instruments, integration with samples and related data in the system for analysis, review, and reporting.
  • Improved user experience for plate creation, editing, and usage, including templates.
  • Updated biologics registry for sequences, molecules, vectors, etc., to ensure registration, entity relationship formation, result integration, and review/reporting is easy and understandable for users and structured well for data scientists.

Release Notes