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<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Dear all,</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">With the recent release of OMERO 5.2.3 and Bio-Formats
5.1.10, the OME team is now focusing on the preparation of the workshops for our annual OME Users meeting [1].</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">For the upcoming OMERO milestones, our efforts will
be shifting towards the delivery of OMERO 5.3.0 which already includes the OME data model additions [2]. As a consequence, OMERO 5.2.x now enters maintenance mode and will only be released in the case of security vulnerabilities, and support for OMERO 5.1.x
will be dropped. On the Bio-Formats side, Bio-Formats 5.1.x will only release critical bug fixes to allow ourselves to complete the work on Bio-Formats 5.2.0.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">For developers:</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Starting mid-May, the breaking OMERO work initiated
on a separate branch will be merged into the develop branch. This development branch will contain the new model work, breaking API changes and development database upgrades and should be considered as unstable. Most of the Continuous Integration will be happening
on the OME Jenkins CI [3]. The contributing documentation [4] will be updated as part of this work to document the new development process.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Regards,</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">The OME team</span></div>
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</span><a href="https://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/community/minutes/meetings/11th-annual-users-meeting-2016" style="text-decoration: none; "><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">https://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/community/minutes/meetings/11th-annual-users-meeting-2016</span></a></div>
<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">[2]
</span><a href="http://blog.openmicroscopy.org/file-formats/data-model/future-plans/2016/01/26/bf-model-status/" style="text-decoration: none; "><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">http://blog.openmicroscopy.org/file-formats/data-model/future-plans/2016/01/26/bf-model-status/</span></a></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">https://ci.openmicroscopy.org/view/DEV/</span></a></div>
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</span></a><a href="https://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/contributing/" style="text-decoration: none; "><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">https://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/contributing/</span></a></div>
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<div>Dr Helen Flynn</div>
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<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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