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<div class="">Dear all,<br class="">
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Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 5.7.1 which includes the following changes:</div>
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<div class="">File format fixes and improvements:</div>
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<li class="">Nikon NIS-Elements ND2
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<li class="">improved parsing of Z position values</li></ul>
</li><li class="">LaVision Imspector
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<li class="">corrected the value of time per FLIM channel</li><li class="">fixed a bug which saw the Z and T dimensions swapped</li><li class="">fixed a divide by zero exception</li><li class="">added a fix for incorrect time-base and number of channels</li></ul>
</li><li class="">TIFF
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<li class="">added support for handling files with a FillOrder of 2 in which the bits in each byte are reversed</li><li class="">improved support for multi-channel ImageJ TIFF files greater than 4GB in size</li></ul>
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<div class="">Performance improvements:</div>
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<li class="">improved TIFF performance by using non-regexp String replacement (thanks to Thushara Wijeratna *)</li><li class="">improved TIFF handling of Strings for large metadata (thanks to T. Alexander Popiel *)</li></ul>
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<div class=""> * Allen Institute for Cell Science</div>
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<div class="">Documentation improvements:</div>
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<li class="">updated documentation to reference support for ImageJ TIFFs</li><li class="">added links to format options page to user and developer index pages</li></ul>
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<div class="">Full details can be found at <a href="https://docs.openmicroscopy.org//bio-formats/5.7.1/about/whats-new.html" class="">https://docs.openmicroscopy.org//bio-formats/5.7.1/about/whats-new.html</a><br class="">
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The software is available at:<br class="">
<a href="http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/5.7.1" class="">http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/5.7.1</a><br class="">
and will shortly be available from the Java-8 update site for Fiji users.<br class="">
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Any problems or comments, please use the OME Forums or mailing lists:<br class="">
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<a href="http://www.openmicroscopy.org/support" class="">http://www.openmicroscopy.org/support</a><br class="">
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Regards,<br class="">
The OME Team</div>
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