What's new in sett 5.2.0? 🚀

We are excited to announce the release of sett version 5.2.0, which brings several significant enhancements designed to improve usability and streamline the encryption and transfer of data.

For a full list of changes, please refer to the changelogs:

To download the new version, please go to the download page, and choose your distribution.

Simplified encryption and transfer GUI ✨

The “Encrypt” and “Transfer” tabs have been combined into a single tab, making the interface cleaner and easier to navigate. You can still choose to encrypt files first, and transfer them later.

BioMedIT Portal Integration 🔐

Users can now authenticate through the BioMedIT Portal, unlocking additional features:

  • When creating a package, you can now select eligible approved data transfer requests from a drop-down menu, rather than manually entering the DTR number.
  • For S3/HTTPS transfers, credentials are automatically retrieved—no need to switch back to the Portal to fetch them.

OpenPGP key expiration date 📅

It is now possible to set an expiration date when generating an OpenPGP certificate both from sett GUI and sett CLI.

Additional settings ⚙️

The “Settings” tab of sett GUI now displays more information, such as the location of your public and private key stores.

CLI for simultaneous decryption and transfer 📬

Users can now decrypt packages from an S3 object store by specifying the corresponding arguments.

Performance and other improvements 🏎️

Additionally, this version includes several bug fixes, as well as security and performance improvements.

Support ❤️

We thank you for your continued support and feedback. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to us at biomedit@sib.swiss.

The BioMedIT Central Team