This release marks a major milestone in the history of the Blast application. It is a stable, production-ready version that we are currently running as a service to the scientific community. This version of Blast is the associated the software product published with our pending scientific journal article:
D. O. Jones, P. McGill, T. A. Manning, A. Gagliano, et al. Blast: a Web Application for Characterizing the Host Galaxies of Astrophysical Transients (https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.17322), submitted to Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.