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Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 5.8.2 which includes the following changes:</div>
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<div class="">File format fixes and improvements:</div>
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<li class="">JPEG
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<li class="">large images with no restart markers now revert to using DefaultJPEGReader for improved decoding</li></ul>
</li><li class="">Micro-Manager
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<li class="">when available PositionName will be parsed and used as the image name</li></ul>
</li><li class="">Hamamatsu ndpi
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<li class="">updated image names to be more meaningful when resolutions are not flattened</li></ul>
</li><li class="">InCell 2000/6000
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<li class="">fixed an IllegalArgumentException and improved well and field indexing</li></ul>
</li><li class="">AVI
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<li class="">fixed a bug with padding for RGB images</li></ul>
</li><li class="">NIfTI
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<li class="">the nDimensions field is now used to read additional dimensions when size is greater than 4</li></ul>
</li><li class="">PerkinElmer Opera Flex
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<li class="">fixed a bug which resulted in an incorrect field count</li></ul>
</li><li class="">Zeiss CZI
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<li class="">improved handling of files with no extension</li></ul>
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<div class="">Bug fixes and improvements:</div>
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<li class="">an error message is now logged by ImageReader when finding a reader for an empty file</li><li class="">added a new protected helper method to Memoizer to check if a directory is writable</li><li class="">improved the rounding of PlanePosition values for data repo configuration testing</li><li class="">prevented a null pointer exception when retrieving plane exposure time using Bio-Formats ImageJ macro extensions</li><li class="">updated MinMaxCalculator to account for unflattened multi resolution images</li></ul>
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<div class="">Documentation improvements:</div>
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<li class="">decoupled the Bio-Formats documentation to the new <a href="https://github.com/ome/bio-formats-documentation" class="">ome/bio-formats-documentation GitHub repository</a> </li><li class="">updated <a href="https://docs.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/5.8.2/developers/format-documentation.html" class="">Adding format/reader documentation</a> for the new decoupled workflow</li><li class="">improved link checking in automated builds</li></ul>
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<div class="">Full details can be found at <a href="https://docs.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/5.8.2/about/whats-new.html" class="">https://docs.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/5.8.2/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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