[ome-devel] Release of Bio-Formats 5.1.4

[Helen Flynn (Staff)]

Dear All,

Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 5.1.4. This is a point release focusing on bug-fixes. Improvements include:

* Command line tools
     * fixed display of usage information
* Automated testing
     * fixed problems with symlinked data on Windows
     * added unit tests for checking physical pixel size creation
* Cellomics
     * fixed reading of sparse plates
* SlideBook
     * fixed a few lingering issues withe native library packaging
* SimplePCI/HCImage TIFF
      * fixed bit depth parsing for files from newer versions of HCImage
* SimplePCI/HCImage .cxd
      * fixed image dimensions to allow for extra padding bytes
* Leica LIF
      * improved reading of image descriptions
* ICS
      * fixed to use correct units for timestamps and physical pixel sizes
* MicroManager
      * fixed to use correct units for timestamps
* Gatan .dm3/.dm4
      * fixed problems with reading double-precision metadata values
* Hamamatsu NDPI
      * fixed reading of mask images
* Leica .lei
      * fixed reading of bit depth and endianness for datasets that were modified after acquisition
* FEI TIFF
      * updated to read metadata from files produced by FEI Titan systems
* QuickTime
      * fixed to handle planes with no stored pixels
* Leica .scn
      * fixed reading of files that contain fewer images than expected
* Zeiss .czi
     * fixed channel colors when an alpha value is not recorded
     * fixed handling of pre-stitched image tiles
* SDT
     * added support for Zip-compressed images
* Nikon .nd2
     * fixed to read image dimensions from new non-XML metadata
* OME-XML
     * fixed writing of integer metadata values

Documentation updates include:

* updated instructions for running automated data tests
* clarifed JVM versions currently supported

Support for building the Native C++ implementation on Windows has also been completed and the pre-built packages will be released separately within the next few weeks.

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/5.1.4

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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