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Dear All,</div>
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<strong>The OME project is pleased to announce the release of OMERO and Bio-Formats 4.4.6.</strong></div>
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Today we are launching 4.4.6, a bug-fix release addressing a number of issues across all components.</div>
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For OMERO, this includes a major fix to repair the C++ binding support for Ice 3.4, and the addition of the following features to the clients:</div>
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- Channel Edit - to update channel names</div>
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- Batch Annotation/De-annotation - annotate a selection of images</div>
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- Data Manager - add a smart folder (Orphaned images) to access images not linked to a dataset</div>
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There has also been an update to the CLI which may potentially break some scripts. This was necessary to fix some key problems and the changes are limited to user/group plugin commands e.g. bin/omero group insert/remove -> bin/omero group adduser/removeuser.</div>
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Bio-Formats improvements include a number of bug fixes. You will also notice that it has officially moved to the <a href="http://www.openmicroscopy.org/">www.openmicroscopy.org</a> site - if you host any links to Bio-Formats documentation or downloads at the
LOCI site, these will soon be redirected.</div>
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Full details are available on the OMERO Github milestone page <a href="https://github.com/openmicroscopy/openmicroscopy/issues?milestone=4&state=closed">https://github.com/openmicroscopy/openmicroscopy/issues?milestone=4&state=closed</a> and the Bio-Formats
Github milestone page <a href="https://github.com/openmicroscopy/bioformats/issues?milestone=3&state=closed">https://github.com/openmicroscopy/bioformats/issues?milestone=3&state=closed</a></div>
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Many thanks to Niko Ehrenfeuchter (University of Basel) for his contribution to this release.</div>
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As always, the software is available from OMERO Downloads <a class="reference external" href="http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/products/omero/downloads" style="color:rgb(202,121,0)">http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/products/omero/downloads</a>and Bio-Formats
Downloads <a class="reference external" href="http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/products/bio-formats/downloads" style="color:rgb(202,121,0)">http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/products/bio-formats/downloads</a></div>
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For information on the upgrade from OMERO 4.4.x to 4.4.6, see the upgrade guide for system administrators <a class="reference external" href="http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/omero4/sysadmins/server-upgrade.html" style="color:rgb(202,121,0)">http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/omero4/sysadmins/server-upgrade.html</a></div>
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If you have not upgraded from 4.3.x to 4.4 yet, then please upgrade directly to 4.4.6 as explained on the upgrade page linked above. </div>
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Kind regards,</div>
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<div>Dr Helen Flynn</div>
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<div>Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression</div>
<div>Open Microscopy Environment</div>
<div>University of Dundee</div>
<div><a href="http://openmicroscopy.org/">http://openmicroscopy.org</a></div>
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