### Changes in UGENE v. 38

#### Alignment Editor

- New options for copy & paste routines: paste before or after a selection.
- A new sorting option: "Sort by leading gap size".
- A new option to select a translation table in DNA-to-protein export.
- Advanced gap handling options in DNA-to-protein export.
- Better scaling of text for high-resolution displays.
- Reworked alignment and phylogenetic tree synchronization logic.
- The recent "Copy selection" change was reverted to the old simple mode.

#### Sequence Editor

- Faster and less resource-consuming auto-annotation mode.
- Fixed issues with annotation selection in multi-line mode.
- Better parsing of overlapping circular sequence regions in the annotation creation dialog.

#### Other improvements

- Improved BLAST algorithm speed and resource usage when used for NGS.
- In Sanger Editor a double-click on a read name now centers the read sequence on a screen.
- Fixed Linux/GTK3 issue with file dialogs in Workflow Designer.
- A lot of other stability and performance improvements.

A complete list of changes can be found on the UGENE web site.

See also a new video about recent improvements in UGENE.