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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">Dear all,</div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">Following the release of Bio-Formats 5.1.5 [1], our two future milestones now</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">become Bio-Formats 5.1.6 [2] and Bio-Formats 5.2.0 [3]. To be able to work</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">effectively on both series without holding back development, now is the time</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">for us to split our development branches.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">Most of these changes have been carried out in the last few days. Do not hesitate</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">to ask or report issues.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">A short summary of changes is described below:</div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">At the source code level:</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">- dev_5_1 has been branched from develop at commit 57ccdde [4] of the Bio-Formats</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class=""> source code repository. All bug fixes PRs will be opened against this branch.</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">- the develop branch now becomes the primary branch for the Bio-Formats 5.2.x</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class=""> development. A PR has been merged to upload 5.2.0-SNAPSHOT Maven artifacts [5]</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">- the daily snoopycrimecop branches integrating PRs now become:</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class=""> * dev_5_1/merge/daily for Bio-Formats 5.1.x</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class=""> * develop/merge/daily for Bio-Formats 5.2.x</div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">At the CI (Jenkins) level:</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">- the Bio-Formats 5.1.x jobs are unmodified. All the builds/tests are still performed by</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class=""> the BIOFORMATS-5.1-* jobs [6].</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">- the development of Bio-Formats 5.2.x will be integrated and tested via the</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class=""> BIOFORMATS-DEV-* jobs [7].</div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">A contributing documentation PR has been opened to document this new process [8].</div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">Regards,</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">The OME Team</div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">[1] <a href="https://www.openmicroscopy.org/community/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=7911" class="">https://www.openmicroscopy.org/community/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=7911</a></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">[2] <a href="https://trello.com/b/3roe12Bs/bio-formats-5-1-6" class="">https://trello.com/b/3roe12Bs/bio-formats-5-1-6</a></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">[3] <a href="https://trello.com/b/OHTqY4pc/bio-formats-5-2-0" class="">https://trello.com/b/OHTqY4pc/bio-formats-5-2-0</a></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">[4] <a href="https://github.com/openmicroscopy/bioformats/commit/57ccdde45dc1f8164df59b226bc8ebac528bb7a3" class="">https://github.com/openmicroscopy/bioformats/commit/57ccdde45dc1f8164df59b226bc8ebac528bb7a3</a></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">[5] <a href="https://github.com/openmicroscopy/bioformats/pull/2035" class="">https://github.com/openmicroscopy/bioformats/pull/2035</a></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">[6] <a href="https://ci.openmicroscopy.org/view/5.1/" class="">https://ci.openmicroscopy.org/view/5.1/</a></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">[7] <a href="https://ci.openmicroscopy.org/view/DEV/" class="">https://ci.openmicroscopy.org/view/DEV/</a></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">[8] <a href="https://github.com/openmicroscopy/ome-documentation/pull/1301" class="">https://github.com/openmicroscopy/ome-documentation/pull/1301</a></div>
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