Release of Bio-Formats 5.1.7

[Melissa Linkert-2]

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Dear All,

Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 5.1.7, a point release focusing on bug fixing:
Java bug fixes, including:

  *   Prevent physical pixel sizes from being rounded to 0, for all formats
  *   Metamorph
     *   fixed calculation of Z step size
     *   fixed detection of post-processed dual camera acquisitions (thanks to Mark Kittisopikul)
  *   OME-XML
     *   fixed XML validation when an ‘xmlns’ value is not present (thanks to Bjoern Thiel)
  *   MINC
     *   fixed endianness of image data
  *   Andor/Fluoview TIFF
     *   fixed calculation of Z step size
  *   MATLAB
     *   improved performance by reducing static classpath checks (thanks to Mark Kittisopikul)
  *   Gatan
     *   fixed physical size parsing in non-English locales
  *   Automated testing
     *   fixed handling of non-default physical size and plane position units

Documentation updates, including:

  *   updated MapAnnotation example to show linkage of annotations to images

The software is available at: http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/5.1.7
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Regards,
The OME Team