[ome-devel] Release of Bio-Formats 5.7.0

[David Gault (Staff)]

Dear all,

Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 5.7.0 which includes the following changes:

File format fixes and improvements:

  *   Imaris HDF
     *   fixed resolution problems in which dimensions and resolution order were incorrectly calculated (thanks to Eliana Andreica)
  *   Nikon NIS-Elements ND2
     *   fixed a bug in offset calculation when native chunk map is being used
  *   MetaMorph
     *   corrected delta T and position Z values for multi-channel images when channels are split across multiple files
  *   Amnis FlowSight
     *   better handling of exceptions in isThisType method (thanks to Claire McQuin)
  *   PicoQuant Bin
     *   better handling of exceptions in isThisType method (thanks to Claire McQuin)

Bug fixes and improvements:

  *   reviewed and corrected URLs throughout the Bio-Formats source code
  *   updated Bio-Formats Macro Extensions list with a missing function
  *   added a new option in Bio-Formats plugins to configure the slice label display using patterns

Documentation improvements:

  *   added new format page for OMERO Pyramid<https://docs.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/5.7.0/formats/omero-pyramid.html>
  *   updated the developer page for Working with whole slide images<https://docs.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/5.7.0/developers/wsi.html>
  *   added new page for configuring options in Bio-Formats plugins<https://docs.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/5.7.0/users/imagej/options.html>
  *   updated documentation sidebar to enable navigation of previous versions

Full details can be found at https://docs.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/5.7.0/about/whats-new.html

The software is available at:
https://www.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/downloads/
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/support

Regards,

The OME Team

The University of Dundee is a registered Scottish Charity, No: SC015096
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