<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear All-<div><br></div><div>Today, The OME Consortium (<a href="http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/about/development-teams">http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/about/development-teams</a>), is proud to release OMERO-Beta4.2.1.</div><div><br></div><div>This is a point release, focussing on fixes for delete functionality, and significant improvements in the way OMERO.web production server is deployed. </div><div><br></div><div>For full details of the OMERO Beta4.2.1 release, see:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://trac.openmicroscopy.org.uk/omero/milestone/OMERO-Beta4.2.1">http://trac.openmicroscopy.org.uk/omero/milestone/OMERO-Beta4.2.1</a></div><div><br></div><div>Some highlights:</div><div><br></div><div>1. Substantial improvement in Delete performance. </div><div><br></div><div>--> Wanna know why this was so hard? <a href="http://trac.openmicroscopy.org.uk/omero/wiki/Delete">h</a><a href="http://trac.openmicroscopy.org.uk/omero/wiki/Delete">ttp://trac.openmicroscopy.org.uk/omero/wiki/Delete</a></div><div><br></div><div>2. Significant improvement in deployment of OMERO.web for production.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/omero4/server/install_web">http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/omero4/server/install_web</a></div><div><br></div><div>...and lots more! (Lost and lots of other stuff-- we simply couldn't help ourselves.)</div><div><br></div><div>The software is available at <a href="http://openmicroscopy.org/">http://openmicroscopy.org</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://openmicroscopy.org/"></a>The full list of features in OMERO, including new features in the OMERO Beta4.2.1, is at <a href="http://openmicroscopy.org/site/products/feature-list">http://openmicroscopy.org/site/products/feature-list</a></div><div>Most features are accompanied by a short movie that shows that functionality in action. </div><div><br></div><div>We have a number of other features we will expose (including extensions to the much talked about OMERO.fs) in point releases that follow over the next few months.</div><div><br></div><div>Our feedback system, OMERO.qa (<a href="http://qa.openmicroscopy.org.uk/">http://qa.openmicroscopy.org.uk</a>) is a facility users and developers can use to log comments and exceptions. OMERO.qa supports uploading of problematic data files, and tracking of responses to any user queries. Moreover, OMERO.qa includes a demo feature: in collaboration with Urban Liebel at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, we are providing demo accounts for OMERO. 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