[ome-devel] 4.3.2 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 4.3.2 release of
Bio-Formats (http://loci.wisc.edu/bio-formats).

This release contains the following notable changes:

* Many bug fixes, including:
 - Better support for Volocity datasets that contain compressed data
 - More accurate parsing of ICS metadata
 - More accurate parsing of cellSens .vsi files
* Added support for a few new formats
 - .inr
 - Canon DNG
 - Hitachi S-4800
 - Kodak .bip
 - JPX
 - Volocity Library Clipping (.acff)
 - Bruker MRI
* Updated Zeiss LSM reader to parse application tags
* Various performance improvements, particularly for reading/writing TIFFs
* Updated OMERO reader implementation to work with OMERO 4.3.x

You can download Bio-Formats here:

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

We would also like to announce that there is now proper documentation on
how to use Bio-Formats within Fiji/ImageJ, thanks to Jason Palmer of LOCI.
The documentation is available here:

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

(It is also linked from the "Help > About Plugins > LOCI Plugins" window in
Fiji/ImageJ).

We are now working towards the next release, which has yet to be named.
Items which may be included in the next release are listed on the
following roadmaps:

http://trac.openmicroscopy.org/ome/query?group=status&component=Bio-Formats&milestone=OME-5.0
http://trac.openmicroscopy.org/ome/query?group=status&component=Bio-Formats&milestone=Unscheduled

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.