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Dear All,
Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 5.1.3. This is a point release that contains bug-fixes, but also adds several new features to Bio-Formats.
Bio-Formats 5.1.3 improvements include:
* Native C++ updates:
* Added cmake superbuild to build core dependencies (zlib, bzip2, png, icu, xerces, boost)
* Progress on support for Windows
* Bug fixes, including:
* Fixed segfault in the showinf tool used with the C++ bindings
* Allow reading from https URLs
* ImageJ - improved performance of displaying ROIs
* Command line tools - fixed bfconvert to correctly create datasets with multiple files
* File format fixes, including:
* Metamorph
* improved detection of time series
* fixed .nd datasets with variable Z and T counts in each channel
* fixed .nd datasets that contain invalid TIFF/STK files
* fixed dimensions when the number of planes does not match the recorded Z, C, and T sizes
* SlideBook - improved native library detection (thanks to Richard Myers)
* JPEG - fixed decompression of lossless files with multiple channels (thanks to Aaron Avery)
* Imspector OBF - updated to support version 2 files (thanks to Bjoern Thiel)
* Imspector MSR - improved detection of Z stacks
* PerkinElmer Opera Flex - improved handling of multiple acquisitions of the same plate
* Zeiss CZI - fixed error when opening single-file datasets whose names contained "(" and ")"
* TIFF - improved speed of reading files with many tiles
* AVI - updated to read frame index (idx1) tables
* Nikon ND2 - fixed channel counts for files with more than 3 channels
* PNG - fixed decoding of interlaced images with a width or height that is not a multiple of 8
* PSD - improved reading of compressed images
* Documentation improvements, including:
* updated instructions for writing a new file format reader
* updated usage information for command line tools
* new Javadocs for the MetadataStore and MetadataRetrieve interfaces
Full details can be found at
http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/bio-formats5.1/about/whats-new.htmlThe software is available at:
http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/5.1.3and the C++ implementation is available from:
http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats-cpp/5.1.3/Any problems or comments, please use the OME Forums or mailing lists:
http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/communityRegards,
The OME Team
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