[ome-devel] Release of Bio-Formats 5.1.3

[Helen Flynn (Staff)]

Dear All,

Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 5.1.3. This is a point release that contains bug-fixes, but also adds several new features to Bio-Formats.

Bio-Formats 5.1.3 improvements include:


  *   Native C++ updates:
     *   Added cmake superbuild to build core dependencies (zlib, bzip2, png, icu, xerces, boost)
     *   Progress on support for Windows
  *   Bug fixes, including:
     *   Fixed segfault in the showinf tool used with the C++ bindings
     *   Allow reading from https URLs
     *   ImageJ - improved performance of displaying ROIs
     *   Command line tools - fixed bfconvert to correctly create datasets with multiple files
  *   File format fixes, including:
     *   Metamorph
        *   improved detection of time series
        *   fixed .nd datasets with variable Z and T counts in each channel
        *   fixed .nd datasets that contain invalid TIFF/STK files
        *   fixed dimensions when the number of planes does not match the recorded Z, C, and T sizes
     *   SlideBook - improved native library detection (thanks to Richard Myers)
     *   JPEG - fixed decompression of lossless files with multiple channels (thanks to Aaron Avery)
     *   Imspector OBF - updated to support version 2 files (thanks to Bjoern Thiel)
     *   Imspector MSR - improved detection of Z stacks
     *   PerkinElmer Opera Flex - improved handling of multiple acquisitions of the same plate
     *   Zeiss CZI - fixed error when opening single-file datasets whose names contained "(" and ")"
     *   TIFF - improved speed of reading files with many tiles
     *   AVI - updated to read frame index (idx1) tables
     *   Nikon ND2 - fixed channel counts for files with more than 3 channels
     *   PNG - fixed decoding of interlaced images with a width or height that is not a multiple of 8
     *   PSD - improved reading of compressed images
  *   Documentation improvements, including:
     *   updated instructions for writing a new file format reader
     *   updated usage information for command line tools
     *   new Javadocs for the MetadataStore and MetadataRetrieve interfaces

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/5.1.3
and the C++ implementation is available from:
http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats-cpp/5.1.3/

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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