Release of Bio-Formats 5.2.3

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Release of Bio-Formats 5.2.3

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Dear All,

Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 5.2.3, a bug-fix release. 

Improvements include fixes for three formats:
  • CZI - fixed imageCount for RGB images
  • ICS writing - fixed ordering of image dimensions
  • DeltaVision - fixed reading of large time dimensions
Other improvements:

  • Command-line tools - bftools.zip now includes the version history as NEWS.rst (thanks to Gerhard Burger)

Code clean-up:
  • switched to String.indexOf(int) in GPL-licensed reader code so that a simpler library method can be used strings now extended with characters where possible
  • completed deprecation of DataTools.sanitizeDouble()
  • deprecated unused OSGi and ome-tools bundle build targets

Documentation:
  • documented versioning policy
  • clarified supported versions for Micro-Manager and Olympus ScanR files

OME-XML changes:
  • bumped schema version number to 2 (schema namespace left unchanged)
  • added acquisition modes BrightField, SweptFieldConfocal and SPIM
  • added parsing for Laser Scan Confocal and Swept Field Confocal


The software is available at:


and will shortly be available from the Java-8 update site for Fiji users.

Any problems or comments, please use the OME Forums or mailing lists:


Regards,

The OME Team


Dr Helen Flynn
OME Technical Writer
Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression
Open Microscopy Environment
University of Dundee


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