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<div>Dear All,</div>
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<div>OMERO and Bio-Formats version 5.1.0-m4 are now public, see <a href="http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/omero/5.1.0-m4/">http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/omero/5.1.0-m4/</a> </div>
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<div><a href="http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/5.1.0-m4/">http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/5.1.0-m4/</a></div>
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<div>This is the 4th development milestone we have released in the lead up to 5.1.0. It is intended as a preview of the code changes and
<b>is definitely <u>use at your own risk</u>. It is only intended as a developer preview to help you update your code before the final release Q1/2015.</b></div>
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<div>The updates to the Data Model are now complete and documented at <a href="http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/ome-model/">http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/ome-model/</a> (Note that how these changes are implemented within OMERO is not
fully documented as yet - developer documentation updates are ongoing).</div>
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<div>Changes include:</div>
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<li>final Database changes - image.series is now exposed in Hibernate</li><li>improved deletion performance</li><li>client bundle clean-up</li><li>other clean-up work including pep8 and removal of deprecated methods and components</li><li>new Map annotations are now included in the UI and search functionality</li><li>ImageJ plugin updates which allow
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<li>importing of images and saving ROIs to OMERO from within the plugin</li><li>viewing images stored in OMERO and their ROIs generated within OMERO from within the plugin</li><li>updating ROIs on OMERO-stored images within the plugin and saving these back to OMERO without needing to re-import the image</li></ul>
</li><li>OMERO.matlab updates re: annotations</li><li>OMERO.tables internal HDF5 format has changed</li></ul>
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<div>With thanks to Paul Van Schayck and Luca Lianas for their contributions.</div>
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<div>NOTE - Improvements for JPEG EXIF reading in Bio-Formats have led to a regression in OMERO whereby JPEG files may not be importable into OMERO 5.1.0-m4. This bug will be fixed before the public release of 5.1.0.</div>
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<div>Regards,</div>
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<div>The OME Team</div>
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<div>Dr Helen Flynn</div>
<div>OME Technical Writer</div>
<div>Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression</div>
<div>Open Microscopy Environment</div>
<div>University of Dundee</div>
<div><a href="http://openmicroscopy.org/">http://openmicroscopy.org</a></div>
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