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Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 5.7.2 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 ND2
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<li class="">fixed a bug which would use the incorrect channel count for small-sized single channel images</li></ul>
</li><li class="">MetaMorph TIFF
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<li class="">changed the reader's behaviour to populate exposure times for all planes when only a single exposure time is defined</li></ul>
</li><li class="">DeltaVision
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<li class="">improved parsing of the associated log files to add additional key value pairs to global metadata</li></ul>
</li><li class="">EPS (Encapsulated PostScript)
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<li class="">fixed an exception when reading pixel data in cases with embedded TIFF</li></ul>
</li><li class="">GIF
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<li class="">fixed a bug to display the correct data when reading planes out of order</li></ul>
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<div class="">Bug fixes and improvements:</div>
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<li class="">fixed failures with Ant build from a clean Maven repository by updating Maven repositories to use HTTPS rather than HTTP</li><li class="">now using safe version checking for Bio-Formats plugins to prevent a bug with Java 9</li><li class="">updated the JPEG-XR codec to allow either interleaved or non-interleaved data to be returned</li></ul>
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<div class="">Documentation improvements:</div>
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<li class="">added clarification regarding Bio-Formats version requirements for using Java 7 or above</li><li class="">updated download links to latest Bio-Formats release version</li><li class="">updated the link to the most active fork of JAI ImageIO</li><li class="">fixed a number of external broken links</li><li class="">added a Trello link for contributing external developers</li><li class="">added a link to the page <a href="http://docs.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/5.7.2/developers/format-documentation.html" class="">Adding format/reader documentation pages</a> to help those contributing to the documentation or supported formats
pages</li><li class="">the <a href="https://docs.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/5.7.2/formats/bio-rad-gel.html" class="">Bio-Rad Gel</a> page has been updated to add a link to biorad1sc_reader, an external python implementation (thanks to Matthew Clapp)</li></ul>
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<div class="">Full details can be found at <a href="https://docs.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/5.7.2/about/whats-new.html" class="">https://docs.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/5.7.2/about/whats-new.html</a><br class="">
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The software is available at:<br class="">
<a href="https://www.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/downloads/" class="">https://www.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/downloads/</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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<div class="">Regards,<br class="">
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The OME Team</div>
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