[ome-devel] Release of Bio-Formats 6.0.1

[David Gault (Staff)]

Dear all,

Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 6.0.1 which included the following changes:

File format fixes and improvements:

  *   cellSens VSI
     *   improved tag parsing resulting in fixes for missing or incorrect metadata
  *   Hamamatsu ndpi
     *   improved handling of variants where a constituent NDPI has no wavelength
  *   LaVision Imspector
     *   fixed a potential NullPointerException when 'xyz-Table Z Resolution' is false
  *   NRRD (Nearly Raw Raster Data)
     *   added support for raw GZIP-compressed data files
  *   Olympus OIR
     *   fix to ensure file path is normalized which fixes detection on Windows
  *   TIFF
     *   improved handling of direct tile copying to prevent invalid images
     *   improved handling of tiles in scenarios of an invalid offset or byte count of 0

Documentation improvements:

  *   added documentation for -noflat option to the showinf and bfconvert users pages
  *   updated recommended minimal MATLAB version to R2017b
  *   documented support for MATLAB versions prior to R2017b
  *   links to MicroCT public datasets now point to the public archive rather than directly to the zip file


Full details can be found at https://docs.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/6.0.1/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 Image.sc forum<https://forum.image.sc/tags/bio-formats> or mailing lists:

http://www.openmicroscopy.org/support

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