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Dear All,</div>
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Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 5.2.2, a bug-fix release. </div>
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Improvements include fixes for three formats:</div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.5em;">InCell
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.5em;">improved handling of Analyzer 2000 datasets to find TIFF files</li></ul>
</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.5em;">FV1000
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.5em;">fixed preview names ordering</li></ul>
</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.5em;">OME-TIFF
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.5em;">enabled all BigTIFF extensions</li></ul>
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Other improvements:</div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.5em;">fixed a regression in which the DataTools number parsing API would not be thread-safe anymore</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.5em;">ImageJ bug fixes and improvements
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.5em;">fixed a bug when swapping dimensions of an image with multiple series of different dimensions</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.5em;">added an option to the exporter to pad filename indexes with zeros</li></ul>
</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.5em;">Command-line tools improvements
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.5em;">allowed the binaries to be symlinked (thanks to Gerhard Burger)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.5em;">added an option to bfconvert to pad filename indexes with zeros</li></ul>
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Full details can be found at <a href="http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/bio-formats5.2/about/whats-new.html">
http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/bio-formats5.2/about/whats-new.html</a></div>
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The software is available at:</div>
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<a href="http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/5.2.2">http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/5.2.2</a></div>
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and will shortly be available from the Java-8 update site for Fiji users.</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>
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<div>Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression</div>
<div>Open Microscopy Environment</div>
<div>University of Dundee</div>
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