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@@ -26,6 +26,52 @@ The NCBI SRA Software Development Kit
 Contact: sra@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
 
 
+NCBI Release: SRA Toolkit 2.10.9
+December 16, 2020
+
+  align, vdb: fixed situation where network access could drastically slow down reading references
+  fasterq-dump: better recognizes pacbio-runs
+  fasterq-dump: ignore .sra-extension of input-filename in output-filename
+  fasterq-dump: non-zero return-code if no arguments given
+  fastq-dump: fasta parameter will complain about invalid argument
+  kar: added availability to open remote files on cloud
+  kns, sra-tools, vdb: added a loop to retry failed connections when fetching SRA files
+  latf-load: added an option to drop read names (--no-readnames), preserve them by default
+  prefetch: support of ETL - BQS (synthesized quality) runs
+  sra-docker: documentation for toolkit docker
+  sratools: driver tool passes all arguments to the driven tool
+  sratools: fixed bug that prevented the `concatenate-reads` option from working
+  sratools: fixed typo `split-e` for option `split-3`
+  sratools: tools can be executed with no arguments
+  sratools: transport option is now deprecated and silently ignored
+  sratools: verbosity argument is passed on to driven tool
+  vdb-config: added a new option to force use of full qualities 
+  vfs: allow to find local files when remote repository is disabled
+  vfs: call SDL service when resolving runs and reference sequences
+
+
+NCBI Release: SRA Toolkit 2.10.8
+June 25, 2020
+
+  kdbmeta: allow to work with remote runs
+  prefetch: print error message when cannot resolve reference sequence
+  vfs, prefetch: download encrypted phenotype files with encrypted extension
+  kdb, vdb, vfs, sra-tools: fixed bug preventing use of path to directory created by prefetch if it ends with '/'
+  kproc, fasterq-dump: fixed problem with seg-faults caused by too small stack used by threads
+  vfs, sra-tools, ngs-tools: report an error when file was encrypted for a different ngc file
+
+
+NCBI Release: SRA Toolkit 2.10.8
+June 24, 2020
+  sratools, sra-tools: fixed issue with some runs not working correctly and fixed typo in fasterq-dump command line
+
+
+NCBI Release: SRA Toolkit 2.10.7
+May 22, 2020
+  sratools, sra-tools: fixed issue with some runs not working correctly and fixed typo in fasterq-dump command line
+  kns, ngs-tools, sra-tools: added new header to HTTP requests to communicate VDB version
+
+
 NCBI Release: SRA Toolkit 2.10.6
 May 15, 2020
   align, sra-tools: fixed fetching of reference sequences from cloud
diff --git a/TOOLS/sratoolkit/README.md b/TOOLS/sratoolkit/README.md
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@@ -14,6 +14,18 @@ The SRA Toolkit and SDK from NCBI is a collection of tools and libraries for
 using data in the INSDC Sequence Read Archives.
 
 ### ANNOUNCEMENT:
+NIH has released a request for information (RFI) to solicit community feedback on new proposed Sequence Read Archive (SRA) data formats. Learn more and share your thoughts at https://go.usa.gov/xvhdr. The response deadline is July 17th, 2020. We’d encourage you all to share with your colleagues and networks, and respond if you are an SRA submitter or data user.
+
+SRA Toolkit 2.10.8
+
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+kdbmeta: allow to work with remote runs
+kdb, vdb, vfs, sra-tools: fixed bug preventing use of path to directory created by prefetch if it ends with '/'
+vfs, sra-tools, ngs-tools: report an error when file was encrypted for a different ngc file
+prefetch: print error message when cannot resolve reference sequence
+vfs, prefetch: download encrypted phenotype files with encrypted extension
+vdb, sra-docker: config can auto-generate LIBS/GUID when in a docker container
+
 SRA Toolkit 2.10.5
 sratools: fixed a potential build problem in libutf8proc
 ncbi-vdb, ngs, ngs-tools, sra-tools: all Linux builds now use g++ 7.3 (C++11 ABI)
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 table NCBI:sra:tbl:trace #1                     // declare the table
     = NCBI:SRA:tbl:sra_nopos #2.1.4             // inherit interface AND implementation for (original) SRA model
-    , NCBI:tbl:base_space #2.0.3                // columns for storing and compressing READ as dna
-    , NCBI:tbl:phred_quality #2.0.4             // columns for storing and compressing QUALITY as phred
+    , NCBI:tbl:base_space #3                    // columns for storing and compressing READ as dna
+    , NCBI:tbl:phred_quality #2.0.5             // columns for storing and compressing QUALITY as phred
     , NCBI:SRA:tbl:stats #1.2.1                 // accumulate statistics upon writing
     , NCBI:SRA:tbl:clip #1.0.2                  // clips 
 {
diff --git a/TOOLS/sratoolkit/schema/ncbi/wgs-contig.vschema b/TOOLS/sratoolkit/schema/ncbi/wgs-contig.vschema
index 515376bd2ef1ac834818f18b77bc525c3aaaefd6..608a2c1782ac983a045f45b5b608fcbb5f665b0a 100644
--- a/TOOLS/sratoolkit/schema/ncbi/wgs-contig.vschema
+++ b/TOOLS/sratoolkit/schema/ncbi/wgs-contig.vschema
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ extern function INSDC:SRA:xread_type
  */
 table NCBI:WGS:tbl:nucleotide #2
     = NCBI:tbl:base_space #3
-    , NCBI:tbl:phred_quality #2.0.4
+    , NCBI:tbl:phred_quality #2.0.5
     , NCBI:SRA:tbl:stats #1.2.1
 {
     /* ACCESSION
diff --git a/TOOLS/sratoolkit/schema/sra/abi.vschema b/TOOLS/sratoolkit/schema/sra/abi.vschema
index 3ec3ecfae1ea00cff19034d2848fadec8c0d7661..a28ca02292173e4dfa7d50acb29fc12849333093 100644
--- a/TOOLS/sratoolkit/schema/sra/abi.vschema
+++ b/TOOLS/sratoolkit/schema/sra/abi.vschema
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ physical NCBI:SRA:swapped_fsamp4 NCBI:SRA:ABI:encoding:SIGNAL #2
 table NCBI:SRA:ABI:tbl:v2 #1.0.5
     = NCBI:SRA:tbl:sra #2.1.4
     , NCBI:tbl:color_space #2.1.0
-    , NCBI:tbl:phred_quality #2.0.4
+    , NCBI:tbl:phred_quality #2.0.5
     , NCBI:SRA:ABI:common #1.0.4
 {
     /* NAME tokenizing and coordinates