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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; ">Dear All-</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; ">Many of you know OME has been working on new technology, codenamed
</span><a href="http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/products/ome5" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; ">OME-5</span></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; ">.
This includes updates to Bio-Formats and OMERO that improve direct access to original proprietary file formats.
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; ">For Bio-Formats, this means much improved performance for accessing complex data sets as seen in HCS and digital pathology,
and also several microscopy formats.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; ">For OMERO, this means that data import is a straight copy of the original file format, and that OMERO (via Bio-Formats)
uses the proprietary file as a data source. Users can access these files from the OMERO repository using 3rd party software, removing the need to keep a copy of these data outside of OMERO. Digital pathology data is MUCH faster and the HCS import workflow
is substantially improved. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; ">We released first released OME-5 technology in June 2013, as
</span><a href="https://trac.openmicroscopy.org.uk/ome/milestone/5.0.0-beta1" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; ">5.0.0-Beta1</span></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; ">.
For us, the $B!H(BBeta$B!I(B terminology meant two things:</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; ">upgrading from an OMERO-4.4.x system to OMERO-5.0 wasn$B!G(Bt possible</span></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; ">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; ">there were several pending updates to the OMERO and Bio-formats APIs to support new multi-dimensional data types, such as FLIM, OPT and LSM/SPIM.
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; ">Most people think of software labelled $B!H(Bbeta$B!I(B as $B!H(Bnew$B!I(B, or $B!H(Bpartially tested$B!I(B. We$B!G(Bve been running OMERO 5.0.0 in several
production systems since June 2013, and have a sense of its behavior and performance. We$B!G(Bve been bugfixing since its release and believe the software is ready to move towards production. This fall, we$B!G(Bve worked hard on supporting the 4.4.x $B"*(B 5.0 upgrade. We$B!G(Bve
tested this upgrade on several systems, including a 13 TB production OMERO system we run here at Dundee. We$B!G(Bre happy to say that, just in time for the winter break, we$B!G(Bll be releasing the next version of OME-5, and this version will support these 4.4.x $B"*(B 5.0
upgrades.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; ">We$B!G(Bve debated long and hard about the naming scheme for this, and other upcoming releases. Several people have asked
when OME-5 will $B!H(Bleave$B!I(B Beta status, as some institutions have a policy of banning the installation of software labelled $B!H(BBeta$B!I(B. In the end, we$B!G(Bve decided to remove $B!H(BBeta$B!I(B, and move towards a full release. We$B!G(Bve tested 5.0 more than any other version of
software we$B!G(Bve ever released. Therefore, we$B!G(Bll release a </span><a href="https://trac.openmicroscopy.org.uk/ome/milestone/5.0.0-rc1" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; ">5.0.0-rc1</span></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; ">
this week, and plan to move to a full release, for production use, in Jan 2014. This will allow many people who want to use OME-5 technology to upgrade, without substantially affecting their use of the Bio-Formats and OMERO APIs.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; ">During Q1 (or early Q2) 2014, we aim to release
</span><a href="https://trac.openmicroscopy.org.uk/ome/milestone/5.1.0" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; ">OME-5.1</span></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; ">.
This version WILL have several updates to the API, to support many new imaging modalities. We$B!G(Bll do our best to announce these changes early, and provide as much documentation and information as possible.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; ">Finally, our plan is to release one more update to the OME 4.4, version
</span><a href="https://trac.openmicroscopy.org.uk/ome/milestone/OMERO-4.4.10" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; ">4.4.10</span></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; ">,
again in Jan 2014. This includes several bug fixes. We$B!G(Bll continue to support 4.4.10 through 2014, for those of you who wish to stay on this platform, but will perform no further substantial functional additions to this version.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; ">Questions and comments welcome. As always, thanks for your support, and best wishes for a happy, safe, and restful holiday
to all.</span></p>
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