ChimeraX Developer Meeting

Attendance: Zach, Tom, Greg

February 9, 2026

Agenda

• VPN software update
• Toolshed update caching to reduce database load.
• Web site accessibility progress.
• Decide on numpy, PySide, Python updates for 1.12 (3.13 or 3.14?)
• Chimera not working with macOS 26, graphics pane positioned over command-line.
• Work in progress reports
• Inside ribbon color?
• Make Chimera end-of-life bug report and registration changes.

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Discussion

• VPN software update
  • Greg updated the VPN software that handles Duo authentication on plato and aristotle.
  • Duo server was warning that update was needed.
  • VPN log continues to show some probably unrelated errors that it was showing before update, but VPN is working.

• Web accessibility
  • Up to 90.8% score
  • Most points remaining are for 4 videos Scooter is working on captioning.
  • Also have contrast problems in developer docs made by Sphinx that Eric is in charge of.
  • Also have contrast problems on Tom Ferrin's personal page.
  • TomG will remove surfview.html javascript app for annotating 3D light microscopy surface blobs.

• Toolshed database caching
  • Greg looked at caching toolshed update database.
  • Proposes invalidating cache when a new bundle is approved, and also once per day to catch other changes like deleted bundles.

• OpenFold
  • Tom working on ChimeraX OpenFold tool on Linux and Windows. Currently works on Mac.

• Lighting GUI
  • Zach working on fixes to lighting GUI requested by Elaine.

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Action Items