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<div style="font-weight:normal; font-family:Helvetica">Today, The OME Consortium (<a href="http://openmicroscopy.org/site/about/development-teams">http://openmicroscopy.org/site/about/development-teams</a>), is proud to release OMERO-4.4.0-RC1.</div>
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<div style="font-weight:normal; font-family:Helvetica">This is a release candidate, so it's still a bit buggy but has been through about 3 weeks of serious testing by the OME team. &nbsp;OMERO-Beta4.4.0 focuses on updates to Permissions, a revamped web UI, and a
 number of other changes.</div>
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<div style="font-weight:normal; font-family:Helvetica">Full details are available at&nbsp;<a href="http://trac.openmicroscopy.org.uk/ome/milestone/OMERO-Beta4.4">http://trac.openmicroscopy.org.uk/ome/milestone/OMERO-Beta4.4</a></div>
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<div style="font-weight:normal; font-family:Helvetica">The software is available at&nbsp;<a href="http://hudson.openmicroscopy.org.uk/job/OMERO-trunk/3011/artifact/src/target">http://hudson.openmicroscopy.org.uk/job/OMERO-trunk/3011/artifact/src/target</a>/</div>
<div style="font-weight:normal; font-family:Helvetica">&nbsp;(please note that as this is RC1, this is for devs only; the public pages still point to the current 4.3.3/4.3.4 release.)</div>
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Helvetica; font-weight:normal">For those of you new to OMERO, see&nbsp;</span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">&nbsp;</font><a href="http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/products/omero">http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/products/omero</a></div>
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<div style="font-weight:normal; font-family:Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://openmicroscopy.org/"></a>OMERO-4.4.0-RC1 is for testing only, and should not be used for production installations. &nbsp;We currently do not supply a database upgrade
 on installation, so&nbsp;</span>OMERO-4.4.0-RC1<span class="Apple-style-span">&nbsp;is for new installs only. &nbsp;</span></div>
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<div style="font-weight:normal; font-family:Helvetica">Any problems or comments, please use the OME Forums or mailing lists:</div>
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<div style="font-weight:normal; font-family:Helvetica">We currently estimate another 2-3 weeks of fixes, docs, demo movies, etc., which will then lead to a final release, currently targetting mid-July.</div>
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<div>As always, thanks for your support.</div>
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<div>Cheers,</div>
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