Release of OME Files C++ 0.5.0

[Roger Leigh]

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The OME team is pleased to announce the release of OME Files C++ 0.5.0

OME Files is a reference implementation of the OME Data Model and
OME-TIFF file format for the storage and interchange of biological
imaging data and metadata.  It provides support for:

- the OME Data Model (model objects, metadata store, XSL transforms and
XML validation)
- OME-TIFF reading
- OME-TIFF writing

The main change in this release is the re-addition of compatibility code
to permit building on CentOS7 and RHEL7 with EPEL.  Other work includes
the switch to C++11 threads and mutexes from the Boost equivalents, and
preliminary CMake support for building with C++17 compilers.

**Downloads**

The software release is available at
http://www.openmicroscopy.org/ome-files/downloads/
(https://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/ome-files-cpp/0.5.0/25/ for all
files).  This includes the source releases, as well as the documentation
and binary builds of the collection for several common platforms,
including Windows, Linux and MacOS X.

**Upgrading from 0.4.x**

- No changes required.

**Changes since OME Files C++ 0.3.2**

*All components*

- Use CMP0067 to enable standard setting in feature tests
- CMake 3.4 is the minimum version
- Use C++11 `<thread>` and `<mutex>`
- Restore support for Boost 1.53
- Add support for Boost 1.65 and 1.65.1
- Drop embedded copies of CMake `FindBoost`, `FindXalanC` and `FindXercesC`
- Only run thread tests with CMake ≥3.8

*OME Common*

- Conditionally add `Boost::log` and `Boost::log_setup` to exported
configuration

*OME Model*

- Add missing explicit `<sstream>` include
- Remove REQUIRED from exported cmake configuration

*OME Files*

- Add tiling performance benchmark documentation
- Add missing implicit `<cstdlib>` and `<iostream>` includes
- Remove REQUIRED from exported cmake configuration

*OME QtWidgets*

- Remove REQUIRED from exported cmake configuration
- Add Dockerfile for building with Travis

*OME Files Python (experimental)*

- Added OME-TIFF writer support

*Super-Build 0.4.0*

- Windows batch files are always checked out with CRLF line endings
- Support building with EPEL packages (CentOS and RHEL 7)
- Download required Python build dependencies into a virtualenv rather
than downloading and installing individually
- Package changes:
   - ome-common 5.5.0: Updated package
   - ome-model 5.6.0: Updated package
   - ome-files 0.5.0: Updated package
   - ome-files-performance: New experimental package (git only)
   - ome-qtwidgets 5.4.3: Updated package
   - boost 1.65.1: Updated package
   - png 1.6.34: Updated package
   - pybind11 2.2.1: New package
   - tiff 4.0.9: Updated package
   - yaml-cpp 0.5.3: New package
   - all python-* packages are now installed with pip

**Errata**

See the errata
(https://docs.openmicroscopy.org/ome-files-cpp/0.5.0/ome-cmake-superbuild/manual/html/errata.html)
for this release.

**Support**

For any problems or comments, please use the OME forums or mailing lists
(http://www.openmicroscopy.org/support/).


Kind regards,
Roger Leigh

on behalf of the OME team

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