Release of OMERO & Bio-Formats 5.1.2

[Melissa Linkert-2]

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Dear All,

Today we are releasing OMERO and Bio-Formats 5.1.2. This is a point release that contains bug-fixes, but also adds several new features to Bio-Formats and OMERO.

Bio-Formats
Bio-Formats 5.1.2 adds writing support for OME-TIFF to the native C++ implementation, allows export of OME BigTIFF, and adds a Slidebook6 reader (many thanks to Richard Myers of 3i - Intelligent Imaging Innovations (https://www.intelligent-imaging.com)

Other improvements include:

  *   improved MATLAB developer documentation
  *   preliminary work to make MATLAB toolbox work with Octave
  *   ImageJ fixes for getPlanePosition* macro extension methods and display of composite color virtual stacks
  *   many bug fixes for formats including:
     *   Nikon ND2 - improved parsing of plane position and timestamp data
     *   TIFF - reduced memory required to read color lookup tables
     *    Zeiss LSM - improved parsing of 16-bit color lookup tables
     *    Zeiss CZI - fixed ordering of original metadata table and reading of large pre-stitched tiled images
     *    AIM - fixed handling of truncated files
     *    Metamorph/MetaXpress TIFF - improved UIC1 metadata tag parsing
     *    Leica LIF - improved metadata handling

Full details can be found at http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/bio-formats5.1/about/whats-new.html

The software is available at:
http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/5.1.2
and the C++ implementation is available from:
http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats-cpp/5.1.2/

OMERO
OMERO 5.1.2 features a number of bug fixes and also introduces some new functionality.

Improvements include:

  *   Read-Write group support
  *   LDAP plugin can now set group owners
  *    auto log-in via webstart for users already logged into OMERO.web
  *    ability to attach results tables from ImageJ/Fiji to your images in OMERO
  *    better delete functionality and warnings in the UI
  *    magnification values now displayed as multiplication factors (e.g. 40x) rather than percentages
  *    long file names more readable in OMERO.insight data tree
  *    various deployment fixes
  *    OMERO.web updates include:
     *    image interpolation on zoom
     *    optimization of plate grid and right-hand panel
     *    download single original files
     *    faster loading of large datasets

Critical bug fixes include:

  *   in-place import file handle leak
  *   various unicode and unit failures (thanks to Tristan Nowak for his help in identifying several of these bugs)


Full details are available at http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/omero5.1/users/history.html

The software is available at:
http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/omero/5.1.2

Upgrade information is at http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/omero5.1/sysadmins/server-upgrade.html.


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

http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/community

Regards,

The OME Team