Despite our intentions to halt active SPAdes development, here is the new SPAdes 4.1 release.

In this release we made the following changes:

• Reduced RAM consumption in pared-read links distance estimation algorithm (https://github.com/ablab/spades/pull/1425);
• Improved k-mer mapper performance (https://github.com/ablab/spades/pull/1419, used in read-to-graph mapping);
• Reduced RAM consumption in repeat resolving module (https://github.com/ablab/spades/pull/1420);
• PathRacer and BinSPreader now support GFA 1.2 as input (https://github.com/ablab/spades/pull/1405);
• Fixed GFA loading (https://github.com/ablab/spades/pull/1423);
• Minor bug-fixes (thanks to @douglasgscofield https://github.com/ablab/spades/pull/1375 and @bzizou https://github.com/ablab/spades/pull/1314).