[ome-devel] Release of Bio-Formats 5.1.3

Curtis Rueden ctrueden at wisc.edu
Mon Jul 20 16:21:29 BST 2015


Hi everyone,

> Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 5.1.3.

The Fiji distribution of ImageJ has now been updated with this release.

Run Help > Update... to get the new version.

Regards,
Curtis

On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 7:30 AM, Helen Flynn (Staff) <h.flynn at dundee.ac.uk>
wrote:

>  Dear All,
>
>  Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 5.1.3. This is a point release that
> contains bug-fixes, but also adds several new features to Bio-Formats.
>
>  Bio-Formats 5.1.3 improvements include:
>
>
>    - Native C++ updates:
>       - Added cmake superbuild to build core dependencies (zlib, bzip2,
>       png, icu, xerces, boost)
>       - Progress on support for Windows
>    - Bug fixes, including:
>       - Fixed segfault in the showinf tool used with the C++ bindings
>       - Allow reading from https URLs
>       - ImageJ - improved performance of displaying ROIs
>       - Command line tools - fixed bfconvert to correctly create datasets
>       with multiple files
>    - File format fixes, including:
>       - Metamorph
>          - improved detection of time series
>          - fixed .nd datasets with variable Z and T counts in each channel
>          - fixed .nd datasets that contain invalid TIFF/STK files
>          - fixed dimensions when the number of planes does not match the
>          recorded Z, C, and T sizes
>       - SlideBook - improved native library detection (thanks to Richard
>       Myers)
>       - JPEG - fixed decompression of lossless files with multiple
>       channels (thanks to Aaron Avery)
>       - Imspector OBF - updated to support version 2 files (thanks to
>       Bjoern Thiel)
>       - Imspector MSR - improved detection of Z stacks
>       - PerkinElmer Opera Flex - improved handling of multiple
>       acquisitions of the same plate
>       - Zeiss CZI - fixed error when opening single-file datasets whose
>       names contained "(" and ")"
>       - TIFF - improved speed of reading files with many tiles
>       - AVI - updated to read frame index (idx1) tables
>       - Nikon ND2 - fixed channel counts for files with more than 3
>       channels
>       - PNG - fixed decoding of interlaced images with a width or height
>       that is not a multiple of 8
>       - PSD - improved reading of compressed images
>    - Documentation improvements, including:
>       - updated instructions for writing a new file format reader
>       - updated usage information for command line tools
>       - new Javadocs for the MetadataStore and MetadataRetrieve interfaces
>
>
>  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/5.1.3
> and the C++ implementation is available from:
> http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats-cpp/5.1.3/
>
>  Any problems or comments, please use the OME Forums or mailing lists:
>
>  http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/community
>
>  Regards,
>
>  The OME Team
>
>   Dr Helen Flynn
> OME Technical Writer
> Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression
> Open Microscopy Environment
> University of Dundee
> http://openmicroscopy.org
>
>
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>
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