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<div class="">Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 6.1.1 which included the following changes:</div>
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<div class="">File format fixes and improvements:</div>
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<li class="">DeltaVision</li><ul class="">
<li class="">added new lens definitions associated with rcpnl files</li></ul>
<li class="">Gatan Digital Micrograph (DM3/DM4)</li><ul class="">
<li class="">now parsing the Montage tag to determine if tiles are present</li></ul>
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<li class="">added support for polygon ROIs scaling (thanks to Sean Warren)</li></ul>
<li class="">PerkinElmer Columbus </li><ul class="">
<li class="">improved handling of truncated TIFF files to return blank planes</li></ul>
<li class="">PerkinElmer Opera Flex</li><ul class="">
<li class="">plate barcodes are now used to improve grouping and handling of truncated files</li></ul>
<li class="">TIFF (Tagged Image File Format)</li><ul class="">
<li class="">improved parsing times for images stored as uncompressed contiguous strips</li></ul>
<li class="">Zeiss CZI</li><ul class="">
<li class="">improved plane position metadata for many CZI datasets</li></ul>
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<div class="">Automated test changes:</div>
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<li class="">format reader tests have been updated to handle PerkinElmer Columbus datasets with flex files</li></ul>
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<div class="">Documentation improvements:</div>
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<li class="">added help for missing options in bfconvert command line tool</li></ul>
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<div class="">Full details can be found at <a href="https://docs.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/6.1.1/about/whats-new.html" class="">https://docs.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/6.1.1/about/whats-new.html</a><br class="">
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The software is available at:<br class="">
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and will shortly be available from the Java-8 update site for Fiji users.</div>
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<div class="">The following are issues which are being considered for the next minor release 6.2.0:</div>
<div class="">- inclusion of a new reader for Mikroscan TIFF (<a href="https://github.com/openmicroscopy/bioformats/pull/3333" class="">https://github.com/openmicroscopy/bioformats/pull/3333</a>)</div>
<div class="">- inclusion of a new reader for Ventana .bif files (<a href="https://github.com/openmicroscopy/bioformats/pull/3336" class="">https://github.com/openmicroscopy/bioformats/pull/3336</a>)</div>
<div class="">- fix for NDPI files with empty marker tag. This was originally aimed for a patch release with the fix <a href="https://github.com/openmicroscopy/bioformats/pull/3248" class="">https://github.com/openmicroscopy/bioformats/pull/3248</a> but after
further investigation it will require a larger fix to our JPEG Turbo Service which will mean it is suitable for a minor release.</div>
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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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<div class="">Regards,<br class="">
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The OME Team</div>
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