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<div>Dear All,</div>
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<div>Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 5.2.3, a bug-fix release. </div>
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<div>Improvements include fixes for three formats:</div>
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<li>CZI - fixed imageCount for RGB images</li><li>ICS writing - fixed ordering of image dimensions</li><li>DeltaVision - fixed reading of large time dimensions</li></ul>
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<div>Other improvements:</div>
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<li>Command-line tools - bftools.zip now includes the version history as NEWS.rst (thanks to Gerhard Burger)</li></ul>
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<div>Code clean-up:</div>
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<li>switched to String.indexOf(int) in GPL-licensed reader code so that a simpler library method can be used strings now extended with characters where possible</li><li>completed deprecation of DataTools.sanitizeDouble()</li><li>deprecated unused OSGi and ome-tools bundle build targets</li></ul>
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<div>Documentation:</div>
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<li>documented versioning policy</li><li>clarified supported versions for Micro-Manager and Olympus ScanR files</li></ul>
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<div>OME-XML changes:</div>
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<li>bumped schema version number to 2 (schema namespace left unchanged)</li><li>added acquisition modes BrightField, SweptFieldConfocal and SPIM</li><li>added parsing for Laser Scan Confocal and Swept Field Confocal</li></ul>
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<div>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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<div>The software is available at:</div>
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<div><a href="http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/5.2.3">http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/5.2.3</a></div>
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<div>and will shortly be available from the Java-8 update site for Fiji users.</div>
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<div>Any problems or comments, please use the OME Forums or mailing lists:</div>
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<div><a href="http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/community">http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/community</a></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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