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<div class="">Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 6.0.1 which included the following changes:</div>
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<div class="">File format fixes and improvements:</div>
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<li class="">cellSens VSI</li><ul class="">
<li class="">improved tag parsing resulting in fixes for missing or incorrect metadata</li></ul>
<li class="">Hamamatsu ndpi</li><ul class="">
<li class="">improved handling of variants where a constituent NDPI has no wavelength</li></ul>
<li class="">LaVision Imspector</li><ul class="">
<li class="">fixed a potential NullPointerException when 'xyz-Table Z Resolution' is false</li></ul>
<li class="">NRRD (Nearly Raw Raster Data)</li><ul class="">
<li class="">added support for raw GZIP-compressed data files</li></ul>
<li class="">Olympus OIR</li><ul class="">
<li class="">fix to ensure file path is normalized which fixes detection on Windows</li></ul>
<li class="">TIFF</li><ul class="">
<li class="">improved handling of direct tile copying to prevent invalid images</li><li class="">improved handling of tiles in scenarios of an invalid offset or byte count of 0</li></ul>
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<div class="">Documentation improvements:</div>
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<li class="">added documentation for -noflat option to the showinf and bfconvert users pages</li><li class="">updated recommended minimal MATLAB version to R2017b</li><li class="">documented support for MATLAB versions prior to R2017b</li><li class="">links to MicroCT public datasets now point to the public archive rather than directly to the zip file</li></ul>
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<div class="">Full details can be found at <a href="https://docs.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/6.0.1/about/whats-new.html" class="">https://docs.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/6.0.1/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 <a href="https://forum.image.sc/tags/bio-formats" class="">Image.sc forum</a> or mailing lists:<br class="">
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<a href="http://www.openmicroscopy.org/support" class="">http://www.openmicroscopy.org/support</a></div>
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