Released 2.06.2026
This is a point update primarily intended to improve handling of unmixing matrices from BD FACSDiscover instruments, and to fix a handful of issues.
New Features:
- BD SpectralFX Technology UnmixingImprovements. FlowJo will now:
- Display hardware unmixed parameters with OLS applied by default and SpectralFX applied by a click selection on a file(s)
- Display an editable unmxing matrix with SpectralFX applied
- Allow users to create an identity matrix
- Work on files from BD FACS Chorus 5.4+
- Group the hardware and software unmixed parameters
- Correctly omit the image derived parameters from default unxming parameter seletion
- Read and apply Correction Matrices from BD FACS Chorus.
Improvements:
- BD FACSDiscover S8 will now be recognized in the preferences
- The import / export cytometer scaling prefs tool is now a button with improved visibility
- Improved handling of Miltenyi transforms
- Compensated parameters are now placed at the top of selection menus to make them easier to access
- The default number of nearest neighbors is reduced to 3 in the Embed algorithm for improved performance
- Last save location is remembered and presented as the default option
- FasterXML jackson-databind libraries are now used
- Both the client and engine use a map to store keyword values for improved performance
- The installed Java version has been updated to 17.0.17+10-LTS
- Improved cloud drive handling
- Accented letters in file paths are now handled
Bug Fixes:
- Embedded links have been updated to match our new website
- Invalid compensation/unmixing matrices no longer causes a crash
- Ellipse gates will update while zoomed in now
- CSV exports of MEM scores are properly ordered
- Cluster explorer exported medians now match selection
- Israel locale setting now uses proper numbers
- Check-sample quality checked on in prefs no longer gives a file loading error
- Action logs retain saved logs for 30-days as expected