The BLAST+ 2.10.0 release is now available from at FTP site. The new version offers the following improvements:
See the release notes for details on more improvements and bug fixes with this release.
BLAST+ is also available in docker, please read more for details.
The new version fully supports the version 5 (v5) databases with built in taxonomy and other improvements. For more information on v5 databases (download), see the previous NCBI Insights article and the recording of our webinar. If you are still using the older version 4 (v4) databases, we recommend you begin using the v5 version as soon as possible. We will discontinue updates to the older v4 databases in early 2020.
BLAST+ Team