SARS-CoV-2 new lineage BA.3.2 still not in nightly.json

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I’ve been downloading the nightly build using the command line that @corneliusroemer provided several months ago:

curl -o nightly.json "https://nextstrain.org/charon/getDataset?prefix=staging/nextclade/sars-cov-2"

Usually this works as I understand it, it returns a file with the latest lineages defined, even if there hasn’t been a formal version build.

But as of today, it still does not contain BA.3.2 ?

Other recent lineages are present eg XEC.25.1.

Any tips?

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Possibly related, I re-processed the last few months of GISAID fasta data using that latest nightly build, but I noticed the LF.7.7.2 lineage was not recorded against any samples. A week prior I did get hundreds of LF.7.7.2 samples, using the nightly build that was then available.

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This issue seems to have sorted itself out - I retried with the latest nightly build: it has BA.3.2 defined, and it is also calling LF.7.7.2 on some recent samples.

I noticed there was a Release recently 2025-03-26–11-47-13Z that included this dataset, so I tried that first. But it did not have a definition for BA.3.2 (in the tree.json file). So I switched back to the nightly build.