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<div>Dear All,</div>
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<div>Today we are launching 4.4.10, a bug-fixing release:</div>
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<div>For OMERO, this includes:</div>
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<li>improved tile-loading</li><li>better network-disconnect handling</li><li>more flexible webapp deployment</li><li>Ice 3.5.1 support (except on Windows)</li><li>and numerous bug fixes, especially during the modification of metadata, users, and groups.</li></ul>
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<div>Bio-Formats improvements include fixes for the following formats:</div>
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<li>CellWorx</li><li>Metamorph</li><li>Zeiss CZI</li><li>and updates to the MATLAB documentation.</li></ul>
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<div>Full details are available on the OMERO Github milestone[1] and the Bio-Formats Github milestone[2] pages.</div>
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<div>The software is available from </div>
<div><a href="http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/omero/4.4.10/">http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/omero/4.4.10/</a></div>
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<div><a href="http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/4.4.10/">http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/4.4.10/</a></div>
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<div>For information on upgrading your server, see <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>For full details of the next major release, see the 5.0.0 milestone page[3]. We currently intend 4.4.10 to be the last update to the 4.4.x series. Our development focus is now on the OME 5 line, and as stated in a previous announcement, while we will continue
to support 4.4.10 through 2014, we will only perform critical bug fixes on this version.</div>
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<div>Kind regards,</div>
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<div>The OME Team</div>
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[1]<a href="https://github.com/openmicroscopy/openmicroscopy/issues?milestone=13&page=1&state=closed">https://github.com/openmicroscopy/openmicroscopy/issues?milestone=13&page=1&state=closed</a></div>
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[2]<a href="https://github.com/openmicroscopy/bioformats/issues?milestone=10&page=1&state=closed">https://github.com/openmicroscopy/bioformats/issues?milestone=10&page=1&state=closed</a></div>
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[3]<span style="line-height: 19px; "><a href="http://trac.openmicroscopy.org.uk/ome/milestone/5.0.0">http://trac.openmicroscopy.org.uk/ome/milestone/5.0.0</a></span></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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