Release of OMERO 5.2.2

[Jean-Marie Burel (Staff)]

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Dear All,

Today we are releasing OMERO 5.2.2, a bug-fix release which also
introduces some new client features. Improvements include:

* display of ROI masks in OMERO.web image viewer
* display of OMERO.tables data for Wells in the OMERO.web right hand panel
* 'Populate Metadata' script to enable generation of OMERO.tables for
Wells is now usable from both OMERO.web and OMERO.insight (note this is
still in development and has some limitations)
* measurement tool fixes
* fixed pixel size metadata and scalebar in OMERO.web image viewer for
images with pixel size units other than micrometer
* fixed OMERO.web handling of turning off interpolation of pixels
* previous and next buttons fixed in OMERO.web image viewer
* delete and change group performance improvements
* better handling of dates in search
* client support for map annotations in OME-TIFF
* disabled orphaned container feature
* OMERO.web clean-up to remove obsolete volume viewer

 Developer updates include:

* Python API examples for creating Polygon and Mask shapes
* Python API example for "Populate Metadata" to create OMERO.tables for
Wells
* OMERO.tables documentation extended
* updated 'What's New for developers' to clarify that 'pojos' has been
renamed as 'omero.gateway.model'
* dynamic scripts functionality documented
* dynamic loading of omero.client server settings into HTTP sessions

System administrator updates include:

* clarification of OMERO.web documentation for nginx deployment, including
an experimental solution to resolve download issues
* documentation of hard-linking issues for in-place import on linux systems

This release also upgrades the version of Bio-Formats which OMERO uses to
5.1.8. For more information see
https://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/bio-formats5.1/about/whats-new.
html.

Note that the OMERO Virtual Appliance has been discontinued and will not
be updated for version 5.2.2 or any later releases.

The software is available at:
http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/omero/5.2.2

Upgrade information is at
http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/omero5.2/sysadmins/server-upgrad
e.html.

Regards,

The OME Team


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