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<div>Dear All,</div>

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<div>Today we are launching 4.4.9, a bug-fix release addressing a number of issues across all components.</div>

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<div>For OMERO, this includes:</div>

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<li>fixing compatibility issues between clients and servers using different Ice versions e.g. client using Ice 3.3 connecting to a server using Ice 3.4;</li><li>adding Ice 3.5 support;</li><li>updating minimum system requirements to Java 1.6 (Java 1.5 is no longer supported);</li><li>a major reworking of the testing infrastructure;</li><li>new scripting sharing service as requested by users [1];</li><li>new user help website to host workflow-based guides [2];</li><li>new partner project pages to highlight work going on within the extended OME consortium.[3]</li></ul>

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<div>A security vulnerability [4] has also been identified and resolved, meaning that

<b>we strongly recommend all users upgrade their OMERO clients and servers.</b> Sysadmin documentation for upgrading your server is at </div>

<div><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>Bio-Formats improvements include a number of bug fixes including for the ND2 format.</div>

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<div>Full details are available on the OMERO Github milestone [5] and the Bio-Formats Github milestone [6] pages. </div>

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<div>The software is available from <a href="http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/omero/4.4.9/">

http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/omero/4.4.9/</a> </div>

<div>and </div>

<div><a href="http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/4.4.9/">http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/4.4.9/</a></div>

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<div>This move to <a href="http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org">downloads.openmicroscopy.org</a> is to facilitate all versions of the software being available from one location - legacy versions will be available here soon.</div>

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<div>Kind regards,</div>

<div>The OME team</div>

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<div>[1] <a href="http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/community/scripts">http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/community/scripts</a></div>

<div>[2] <a href="http://help.openmicroscopy.org">http://help.openmicroscopy.org</a></div>

<div>[3] <a href="http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/products/partner/">http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/products/partner/</a></div>

<div>[4] <a href="http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/products/omero/secvuln">http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/products/omero/secvuln</a></div>

<div>[5] <a href="https://github.com/openmicroscopy/openmicroscopy/issues?milestone=10&page=1&state=closed">https://github.com/openmicroscopy/openmicroscopy/issues?milestone=10&page=1&state=closed</a></div>

<div>[6] <a href="https://github.com/openmicroscopy/bioformats/issues?milestone=6&page=1&state=closed">https://github.com/openmicroscopy/bioformats/issues?milestone=6&page=1&state=closed</a></div>

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<span style="font-size:10pt">The University of Dundee is a registered Scottish Charity, No: SC015096</span>

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