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Dear all,
Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 6.3.0 which includes the following changes:
File format fixes and improvements:
* Big Data Viewer
* added support for parsing of physical sizes
* DeltaVision
* added a new RCPNL reader which is a variant and split out of the DeltaVision format
* Hamamatsu NDPI
* fixed population of the nominal magnification from the SourceLens TIFF tag
* ICS (Image Cytometry Standard)
* fixed a bug when using tiles to read files from SVI-Huygens
* Imspector OBF
* fixed an IndexOutOfBoundsException exception when using DummyMetadata (thanks to Nils Gladitz)
* JPEG 2000
* added support for sub-resolutions
* Leica LIF
* updated to parse attachments to determine if XY positions should be flipped or swapped
* MetaMorph
* improved file name construction and plate detection logic
* Nikon ND2
* updated to use floating point for 32 bit values
* OME-TIFF
* reduced memory usage when reading files and memo file size for cached files
* PerkinElmer Operetta
* improved handling of empty fields to prevent series from having X or Y set to 0
API updates:
* added overwriteIFDValue signature that takes an IFD offset to TiffSaver
* added a new getRequiredDirectories method to FormatTools
* new FakeReader keys added for sleepOpenBytes and sleepInitFile
Build updates:
* updated deployment mechanism for SNAPSHOT and Release to use Travis CI
* increased the strictness of AcquisitionDate checks in FormatReaderTest
* improved test coverage of companion file datasets
Component updates:
* ome-common was upgraded to 6.0.4
* updated DateTools to attempt to parse invalid dates with Locale.US
* DateTools documentation updated to clarify expected units for timestamp passed to convertDate
Documentation improvements:
* added documentation for sleep options when generating test images
* fixed broken external links in documentation
* corrected suffixes used for JPEG 2000
Full details can be found at
https://docs.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/6.3.0/about/whats-new.html.
The software is available from
https://www.openmicroscopy.org/ and is available from the Java-8 update site for Fiji users.
Any problems or comments, please use the image.sc forum with the bio-format tag -
https://forum.image.sc/tags/bio-formats.
Best regards,
The OME Team
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