[ome-devel] Release of Bio-Formats 5.2.3

[Helen Flynn (Staff)]

Dear All,

Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 5.2.3, a bug-fix release.

Improvements include fixes for three formats:

  *   CZI - fixed imageCount for RGB images
  *   ICS writing - fixed ordering of image dimensions
  *   DeltaVision - fixed reading of large time dimensions

Other improvements:


  *   Command-line tools - bftools.zip now includes the version history as NEWS.rst (thanks to Gerhard Burger)

Code clean-up:

  *   switched to String.indexOf(int) in GPL-licensed reader code so that a simpler library method can be used strings now extended with characters where possible
  *   completed deprecation of DataTools.sanitizeDouble()
  *   deprecated unused OSGi and ome-tools bundle build targets

Documentation:

  *   documented versioning policy
  *   clarified supported versions for Micro-Manager and Olympus ScanR files

OME-XML changes:

  *   bumped schema version number to 2 (schema namespace left unchanged)
  *   added acquisition modes BrightField, SweptFieldConfocal and SPIM
  *   added parsing for Laser Scan Confocal and Swept Field Confocal

Full details can be found at http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/bio-formats5.2/about/whats-new.html

The software is available at:

http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/5.2.3

and will shortly be available from the Java-8 update site for Fiji users.

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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