[ome-devel] 4.3.1 release of Bio-Formats

[Melissa Linkert]

Hello everyone,

Today, UW-Madison LOCI (http://loci.wisc.edu) and Glencoe Software
(http://glencoesoftware.com) are pleased to announce the 4.3.1 release of
Bio-Formats (http://loci.wisc.edu/bio-formats).

This release contains the following notable changes:

* Several bug fixes, including:
  - Fixes for multi-position Deltavision files
  - Fixes for MicroManager 1.4 data
  - Fixes for 12 and 14-bit JPEG-2000 data
  - Fixes for reading Volocity .mvd2 datasets
* Added various options to the 'showinf' and 'bfconvert' command line tools
* Added better tests for OME-XML backwards compatibility
* Added the ability to roughly stitch tiles in a multi-position dataset

You can download Bio-Formats here:

http://loci.wisc.edu/bio-formats/downloads

We are now working towards the next release (4.3.2), the roadmap for which can
be viewed here:

http://trac.openmicroscopy.org.uk/ome/query?group=status&component=Bio-Formats&milestone=OMERO-Beta4.3.2

The 4.3.2 release is currently scheduled for early September 2011.

We are, as always, very grateful for the bug reports, test files, and patches
submitted by the community.  If you have any questions or comments, or if you
have found a bug, please contact us as instructed here:

http://loci.wisc.edu/software/mailing-lists.

Kind regards,

Melissa Linkert
Glencoe Software, Inc.