Release of Bio-Formats 5.1.8

[Roger Leigh]

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Dear All,

Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 5.1.8, a point release focusing on bug fixing:

Java bug fixes, including:

  *   FEI TIFF
     *   fixed stage position parsing and whitespace handling (thanks to Antoine Vandecreme)
  *   Pyramid TIFF
     *   fixed tile reading when a cache (.bfmemo) file is present
  *   MicroManager
     *   updated to parse JSON data from tags 50839 and 51123
     *   fixed to detect *_metadata.txt files in addition to metadata.txt files
     *   fixed to handle datasets with each stack in a single file
  *   OME-XML
     *   updated to make .ome.xml an official extension
  *   OME-TIFF
     *   fixed to ignore invalid BinaryOnly elements
  *   TIFF
     *   fixed caching of BigTIFF files
  *   Slidebook
     *   fixed handling of montages in Slidebook6Reader (thanks to Richard Myers)
  *   Performance improvement for writing files to disk (thanks to Stephane Dallongeville)
  *   Build system
     *   fixed Maven POMs to reduce calls to artifacts.openmicroscopy.org<http://artifacts.openmicroscopy.org>
     *   fixed bioformats_package.jar to include the loci.formats.tools package

Documentation updates, including:

  *   updated format pages to include links to example data
  *   clarified description of Qu for MATLAB (thanks to Carnë Draug)
  *   added installation instructions for Octave (thanks to Carnë Draug)

C++:

  *   Bugfixes to the OME-TIFF writer to correct use of the metadata store with multiple series
  *   Ensure file and writer state consistency upon close failure

The software is available at: <http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/5.1.8> http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/5.1.8

The C++ superbuilds and platform builds will be released shortly.

Any problems or comments, please use the OME Forums or mailing lists:
http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/community

Regards,

The OME Team

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