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<div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;">Today we are releasing OMERO 5.4.1, a bug-fix release.</div>
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<div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;">Improvements include:</div>
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<li>labeled zoom slider bars in the UI to differentiate from horizontal scrollbars and make clear thumbnails can be zoomed (including Plate and Well thumbnails)</li><li> fixes for installation walkthrough documentation - installation of script dependencies and gunicorn, and clarification of which user account to use for "pip install" actions</li><li>fixed checking of "guest" user</li><li>update to fetch third-party artifacts over https to allow OMERO to build even without a local Maven cache already populated</li><li>added javax.activation dependency to allow OMERO.insight to work with Java 9</li><li>import of files reporting extreme pixel sizes now fail rather than hanging</li><li>pyramid-making now aborts when a tile fails</li><li>various test fixes</li><li>CLI fixes:
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<li> improved help output for graphs commands to make it clearer that "--include" and "--exclude" expect class names not object IDs</li><li> allowed setting the ``OMERO_PASSWORD`` environment variable instead of using the "-w" command-line option</li><li> made passwords hidden by default when running "omero config get"</li><li> fixed the CLI metadata tablestest plugin to not use an empty list of Columns</li></ul>
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<div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;">This release also upgrades the version of Bio-Formats that OMERO uses to 5.7.2 - see <a href="https://docs.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/5.7.2/about/whats-new.html">https://docs.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/5.7.2/about/whats-new.html</a>.</div>
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<div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;">The software is available at<span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><a href="https://www.openmicroscopy.org/omero/downloads/" class="">https://www.openmicroscopy.org/omero/downloads/</a></div>
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<div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;">Any problems or comments, please use the OME Forums or mailing lists - <a href="https://www.openmicroscopy.org/support">https://www.openmicroscopy.org/support</a>.</div>
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<div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;">Regards,</div>
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<div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;">The OME Team</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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