# nf-core/newsletter, September 2025 4 blog posts, 10 pipeline releases, 6 upcoming events. [View on the nf-core website](https://nf-co.re/newsletter/2025/09) ## Blog posts - [Maintainers Minutes: August 2025](https://nf-co.re/blog/2025/maintainers-minutes-2025-08-29) — Keeping you informed of the latest maintainers discussions _31 Aug 2025 · by maxulysse_ - [Why are my pipeline download tests failing?](https://nf-co.re/blog/2025/refurbushing-the-pipeline-download) — Refurbishing the pipeline downloads command _28 Aug 2025 · by ErikDanielsson, mirpedrol, MatthiasZepper_ - [Introducing nf-core Advisories](https://nf-co.re/blog/2025/advisories) — Timely technical issue alerts, no matter how remote you are. _21 Aug 2025 · by MatthiasZepper_ - [Empowering bioinformatics communities with Nextflow and nf-core](https://nf-co.re/blog/2025/paper-v2) — Next nf-core scientific article now published in Genome Biology! _6 Aug 2025 · by maxulysse, jfy133, JoseEspinosa, mashehu, christopher-hakkaart_ ## New pipeline first releases 🎉 These pipelines just had their very first release. - [nf-core/longraredisease](https://nf-co.re/longraredisease) vv1.0.0-alpha — Long read sequencing pipeline to identify variants in patients with neurodevelopmental disorders ## Pipeline releases - [nf-core/denovotranscript](https://nf-co.re/denovotranscript) v1.2.1 _(28 Aug 2025)_ - [nf-core/detaxizer](https://nf-co.re/detaxizer) v1.2.0 _(7 Aug 2025)_ - [nf-core/metatdenovo](https://nf-co.re/metatdenovo) v1.3.0 _(29 Aug 2025)_ - [nf-core/methylseq](https://nf-co.re/methylseq) v4.1.0 _(10 Aug 2025)_ - [nf-core/pairgenomealign](https://nf-co.re/pairgenomealign) v2.2.1 _(18 Aug 2025)_ - [nf-core/proteinfamilies](https://nf-co.re/proteinfamilies) v1.3.0 _(6 Aug 2025)_ - [nf-core/rnaseq](https://nf-co.re/rnaseq) v3.20.0 _(18 Aug 2025)_ - [nf-core/rnavar](https://nf-co.re/rnavar) v1.1.1, v1.2.0 _(27 Aug 2025)_ - [nf-core/taxprofiler](https://nf-co.re/taxprofiler) v1.2.4 _(28 Aug 2025)_ ## Upcoming events - **Talk** [Bytesize: nf-core/createtaxdb](https://nf-co.re/events/2025/bytesize_nfcore_createtaxdb) — 9 Sept 2025 James Fellows Yates, Leibniz-HKI - **Talk** [Bytesize: RFCs](https://nf-co.re/events/2025/bytesize_rfcs) — 16 Sept 2025 Phil Ewels, Seqera - **Talk** [#animal-genomics: September Meeting](https://nf-co.re/events/2025/sig_animalgenomics_sep) — 17 Sept 2025 Brenda Murdoch & Temitayo Olangunju (University of Idaho, USA) - **Talk** [#animal-genomics: October Meeting](https://nf-co.re/events/2025/sig_animalgenomics_oct) — 15 Oct 2025 Daniela Lourenco (University of Georgia, USA) - **Hackathon** [Hackathon - October 2025 (Barcelona)](https://nf-co.re/events/2025/hackathon-barcelona) — 28 Oct 2025 – 29 Oct 2025 An in-person hackathon held in Barcelona - **Talk** [Bytesize: nf-core/mag v5.0](https://nf-co.re/events/2025/bytesize_mag_v5) — 28 Oct 2025 Diego Alvarez Saravia, University of Magallanes ## In case you missed it ### Earlier blog posts - [Maintainers Minutes: July 2025](https://nf-co.re/blog/2025/maintainers-minutes-2025-07-31) — 31 Jul 2025 - [Meet the new meta.yml](https://nf-co.re/blog/2025/modules-meta-yml) — 7 Jul 2025 - [nf-core/tools - 3.3](https://nf-co.re/blog/2025/tools-3_3) — 3 Jun 2025 - [Maintainers Minutes: May 2025](https://nf-co.re/blog/2025/maintainers-minutes-2025-05-30) — 3 Jun 2025 ## New pipelines & proposals ### New pipeline repositories - [nf-core/funcprofiler](https://nf-co.re/funcprofiler) _(in development)_ — Read-based functional profiling of microbiome sequencing data ### Pipeline proposals From [nf-core/proposals](https://github.com/nf-core/proposals/issues). - [nf-core/chemclip](https://github.com/nf-core/proposals/issues/67) — Accepted (#67) - [microfunctprofiler](https://github.com/nf-core/proposals/issues/59) — Accepted (#59) - [nf-core/nf-segmented](https://github.com/nf-core/proposals/issues/74) — New (#74) - [nf-core/thetis](https://github.com/nf-core/proposals/issues/66) — New (#66) ### Other proposals - [New RFC: Migrate Subworkflows and Template boilerplate to nf-core-utils plugin](https://github.com/nf-core/proposals/issues/51) — Accepted (#51) - [nf-core/crispresso](https://github.com/nf-core/proposals/issues/75) — New (#75) - [New RFC: add nf-co2footprint plugin to the template](https://github.com/nf-core/proposals/issues/72) — New (#72) - [Make QC steps opt-in](https://github.com/nf-core/proposals/issues/71) — New (#71) - [New RFC: move storage of nf-core/test-dataset files to another location](https://github.com/nf-core/proposals/issues/70) — New (#70) - [New RFC: Allow ext.suffix as an official ext. value allowed for use in nf-core/modules](https://github.com/nf-core/proposals/issues/69) — New (#69) - [New RFC: Add `task.ext.mem_multiplier` to modules](https://github.com/nf-core/proposals/issues/65) — New (#65) --- This newsletter is brought to you by the [nf-core](https://nf-co.re) community.