[ome-devel] 4.0.1 release of Bio-Formats

[Melissa Linkert]

Hi,

Today LOCI (http://loci.wisc.edu) and Glencoe Software
(http://glencoesoftware.com) have released version 4.0.1 of Bio-Formats
(http://loci.wisc.edu/ome/formats.html).  This release includes the
following changes:

* Lots of bug fixes in most format readers and writers
* Added support for Analyze 7.5 files
* Added support for NIfTI files
* Added support for Cellomics .c01 files
* Major refactoring of the ImageJ plugins
* Java 1.5 is required for Bio-Formats, the loci.common package and the ImageJ 
plugins
* Eliminated native library dependency for reading lossless JPEGs
* Changed license from GPL v3 or later to GPL v2 or later
* Updated Olympus FV1000, Zeiss LSM, Zeiss ZVI and Nikon ND2 readers to parse
   ROI data
* Added option to ImageJ plugin for displaying ROIs parsed from the chosen
   dataset
* Fixed BufferedImage construction for signed data and unsigned int data

You can download the latest release at:

http://loci.wisc.edu/ome/formats-download.html

We have not yet planned a release date for the next version of Bio-Formats. 
However, you can view the roadmaps for the next two releases at:

https://skyking.microscopy.wisc.edu/trac/java/milestone/bio-formats-4.1.0

and

https://skyking.microscopy.wisc.edu/trac/java/milestone/bio-formats-4.2

If you have questions, comments or concerns regarding Bio-Formats, we
would love to hear them.  Bug reports and general usage questions should
be sent to the Bio-Formats developers at bioformats at loci.wisc.edu.
Licensing and commercial usage questions should be sent to
bioformats at glencoesoftware.com.

Regards,

Melissa Linkert
Glencoe Software, Inc.