[ome-devel] Release of OMERO & Bio-Formats 5.1.1

[Helen Flynn (Staff)]

Dear All,

Today we are releasing OMERO and Bio-Formats 5.1.1. This is a point release that contains bug-fixes, but also adds several new features to Bio-Formats and OMERO.

Bio-Formats
Bio-Formats 5.1.1 adds TIFF writing support to the native C++ implementation and substantially improves our support for Windows by fixing the remaining functional differences between Windows and Mac/Linux.

Other updates include:

  *       improved performance of ImageJ plugin when working with ROIs
  *       TIFF export - switch to BigTIFF if .tf2, .tf8, or .btf extensions are used
  *       fixed upgrade checking to more accurately report when a new version is available
  *       Many bug fixes for formats including:
     *       Zeiss CZI - fixed ordering of multiposition data and improved support for RGB and fused images
     *       Nikon ND2 - improved ordering of multiposition data
     *       Leica LIF - improved metadata validity checks and excitation wavelength detection
     *       Metamorph STK/TIFF - record lens numerical aperture and fixed millisecond values in timestamps
     *       Gatan DM3 - correctly detect signed pixel data
     *       Imaris HDF - fix channel count detection
     *       ICS export - fix writing of files larger than 2GB

Full details can be found at http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/bio-formats5.1/about/whats-new.html

The software is available at:
http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/5.1.1
and the C++ implementation is available from:
http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats-cpp/5.1.1/

OMERO
OMERO 5.1.1 focuses on user-facing issues and cleaning resources for developers. Improvements include:

For OMERO.web:

  *       significant review of the web share functionality
  *       correction of thumbnail refreshing
  *       fixes to the user administration panel
  *       fix for embedding of the Javascript image viewer

For OMERO.insight:

  *       improved open actions
  *       tidying of the menu structure
  *       correction of the mouse zoom behavior
  *       fix for the Drag-n-Drop functionality

Other updates include:

  *       overhaul of the CLI session log-in logic
  *       cleaning and testing of all code examples
  *       further removal of the use of deprecated methods

The software is available at:
http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/omero/5.1.1

Upgrade information is at http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/omero5.1/sysadmins/server-upgrade.html.


Any problems or comments, please use the OME Forums or mailing lists:

http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/community

Regards,

The OME Team

Dr Helen Flynn
OME Technical Writer
Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression
Open Microscopy Environment
University of Dundee
http://openmicroscopy.org<http://openmicroscopy.org/>


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