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<span lang="EN-US">Dear All-</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US">Today, the OME Consortium (<a href="http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/about/development-teams"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,235)">http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/about/development-teams</span></a>), is proud to announce the release of OMERO-4.4.0.</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US">This is a major release, which focuses on providing new functionality for controlling access to data, as well as significant improvements in our client applications.</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US">The software is available at <a href="http://openmicroscopy.org/"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,235)">http://openmicroscopy.org</span></a></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US">The major theme of 4.4.0 is what we call "Permissions", which refers to how users control access to their data. It's now possible to move data between groups, and much, much more. For some info on what all this entails, see:</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/products/feature-list"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,235)">https://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/products/feature-list</span></a></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US">We also added a few more things for users in 4.4.0, like:</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US">-- OMERO.insight webstart</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US">-- Importing from OMERO.insight is now complete</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US">-- better integration of OMERO.insight with ImageJ</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US">-- a bottom-to-top reworking of the OMERO.web design</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US">For developers and sysadmins, there are a few things as well:</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US">-- Support for Ice 3.4</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US">-- Removed Support for PostgreSQL 8.3</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US">Upgrade from 4.3.3 to 4.4.0 is fairly straightforward, see: <a href="http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/omero4/server/upgrade"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,235)">http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/omero4/server/upgrade</span></a> for
more details.</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US">For full details of the development effort underlying the OMERO 4.4.0 release, see:</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://trac.openmicroscopy.org.uk/ome/milestone/OMERO-4.4"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,235)">http://trac.openmicroscopy.org.uk/ome/milestone/OMERO-4.4</span></a></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US">We are already at work on 4.4.1, which will fix bugs and clean up and add lots of Documentation. Check the Roadmap pages for more info (<a href="http://trac.openmicroscopy.org.uk/ome/milestone/OMERO-4.4.1"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,235)">http://trac.openmicroscopy.org.uk/ome/milestone/OMERO-4.4.1</span></a>).</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US">Our feedback system, OMERO.qa (<a href="http://qa.openmicroscopy.org.uk/"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,235)">http://qa.openmicroscopy.org.uk</span></a>) is a facility that users and developers can use to log comments and exceptions. OMERO.qa
supports uploading of problematic data files, and tracking of responses to any user queries. </span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US">As always, thanks for your support.</span></p>
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