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<div>The OME project is pleased to announce the release of OMERO and Bio-Formats 4.4.7</div>
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<div>Today we are launching 4.4.7, including several new features and bug fixes across all components.</div>
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<div>For OMERO, this includes:</div>
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<div>* usability and performance improvements in viewing of 'Big' tiled images;</div>
<div>* new permission features - import data and assign to another user ('Import As'), view all data from all users in a group at once;</div>
<div>* OMERO.web support for 'Split View Figure' and 'Thumbnail Figure' creation;</div>
<div>* OMERO.web support for copy-and-paste of rendering settings;</div>
<div>* addition of several utility functions in the OMERO.matlab toolbox to load and manipulate objects from the server;</div>
<div>* review and testing of the C++ bindings;</div>
<div>* improved checksum calculation to detect errors on file upload;</div>
<div>* and the addition of array columns in OMERO.tables.</div>
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<div>Bio-Formats improvements include fixes for the following formats:</div>
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<div>* Amira - read files over 4 GiB;</div>
<div>* APNG - remove dependency upon Java ImageIO;</div>
<div>* Bio-Rad Gel - improve pixel offset calculation;</div>
<div>* CellSens - prevent tag parsing errors;</div>
<div>* Deltavision - allow reading of truncated files, fix errors when importing into OMERO;</div>
<div>* FITS - support truncated files;</div>
<div>* FV1000 - cope with missing thumbnails;</div>
<div>* Gatan - improve metadata parsing;</div>
<div>* Imaris HDF - correct channel count;</div>
<div>* Leica LIF - supported tiled images and parse User-Comment tags;</div>
<div>* Metamorph - correct channel count;</div>
<div>* Micromanager - correct file finding for single-channel datasets;</div>
<div>* Nikon ND2 - many improvements to metadata parsing</div>
<div>* SimplePCI - improve Z and T dimension calculation;</div>
<div>* Olympus SIS TIFF - read pixel sizes and exposure;</div>
<div>* Olympus ScanR - correct well linkage;</div>
<div>* TIFF - various fixes for reading tiled images</div>
<div>* Trestle - improve support for sub-resolutions;</div>
<div>* Zeiss CZI - parse Z positions, parse linescans, fix ordering of stitched files;</div>
<div>* Zeiss LSM and Zeiss ZVI - improve ROI parsing;</div>
<div>* improve export to multi-file datasets; </div>
<div>* and Bio-Formats now uses slf4j for logging rather than using log4j directly, enabling other logging implementations to be used, for example when Bio-Formats is used as a component in other software using a different logging system. </div>
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<div>Full details are available on the OMERO Github milestone and the Bio-Formats Github milestone pages:</div>
<div><a href="https://github.com/openmicroscopy/openmicroscopy/issues?milestone=5">https://github.com/openmicroscopy/openmicroscopy/issues?milestone=5</a></div>
<div><a href="https://github.com/openmicroscopy/bioformats/issues?milestone=4">https://github.com/openmicroscopy/bioformats/issues?milestone=4</a></div>
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<div>As always, the software is available from <a href="http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/products/omero/downloads">
http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/products/omero/downloads</a> and <a href="http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/products/bio-formats/downloads">http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/products/bio-formats/downloads</a>.</div>
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<div>For information on the upgrade from OMERO 4.3 to 4.4, see the upgrade guide for system administrators (<a href="http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/omero4/sysadmins/server-upgrade.html">http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/omero4/sysadmins/server-upgrade.html</a>).</div>
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<div>If you have not upgraded from 4.3 to 4.4 yet, then please upgrade directly to 4.4.7 as explained on the upgrade page linked above.</div>
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<div>For full details of the next major release, see the <a href="https://trac.openmicroscopy.org.uk/ome/milestone/OMERO-4.4.8">
https://trac.openmicroscopy.org.uk/ome/milestone/OMERO-4.4.8</a> milestone page.</div>
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<div>Kind regards,</div>
<div>The OME team</div>
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<div>Dr Helen Flynn</div>
<div>OME Technical Writer</div>
<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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