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Dear All,</div>
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Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 5.1.7, a point release focusing on bug fixing:</div>
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Java bug fixes, including:</div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.5em;">Prevent physical pixel sizes from being rounded to 0, for all formats</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.5em;">Metamorph
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.5em;">fixed calculation of Z step size</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.5em;">fixed detection of post-processed dual camera acquisitions (thanks to Mark Kittisopikul)</li></ul>
</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.5em;">OME-XML
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.5em;">fixed XML validation when an ‘xmlns’ value is not present (thanks to Bjoern Thiel)</li></ul>
</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.5em;">MINC
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.5em;">fixed endianness of image data</li></ul>
</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.5em;">Andor/Fluoview TIFF
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.5em;">fixed calculation of Z step size</li></ul>
</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.5em;">MATLAB
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.5em;">improved performance by reducing static classpath checks (thanks to Mark Kittisopikul)</li></ul>
</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.5em;">Gatan
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.5em;">fixed physical size parsing in non-English locales</li></ul>
</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.5em;">Automated testing
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.5em;">fixed handling of non-default physical size and plane position units</li></ul>
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Documentation updates, including:</div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.5em;">updated MapAnnotation example to show linkage of annotations to images</li></ul>
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The software is available at: <a href="http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/5.1.7">
http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/5.1.7</a></div>
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Any problems or comments, please use the OME Forums or mailing lists:</div>
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<a href="http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/community">http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/community</a></div>
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Regards,</div>
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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>
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