[ome-users] Bio-Formats release (2008 December 29)

[Melissa Linkert]

Hi,

Today LOCI has released a new version of Bio-Formats.  This release contains
the following changes:

* Improved metadata support for Deltavision, Zeiss LSM, MicroManager, and
Leica LEI
* Restructured code base/build system to be component-driven
* Added support for JPEG and JPEG-2000 codecs within TIFF, OME-TIFF and
OME-XML
* Added support for 16-bit compressed Flex files
* Added support for writing JPEG-2000 files
* Added support for Minolta MRW format
* Added support for the 2008-09 release of OME-XML
* Removed dependency on JMagick
* Re-added caching support to data browser plugin
* Updated loci.formats.codec.Codec API to be more user-friendly
* Expanded loci.formats.meta.MetadataStore API to better represent the
OME-XML model
* Improved support for Nikon NEF
* Improved support for TillVision files
* Improved ImageJ import options dialog
* Fixed bugs with Zeiss LSM files larger than 4 GB
* Fixed minor bugs in most readers
* Fixed bugs with exporting from an Image5D window
* Fixed several problems with virtual stacks in ImageJ

You can download the latest release from http://loci.wisc.edu/ome/formats
-download.html.

If you have questions, concerns or comments about the software, please feel
free to contact us at bioformats at loci.wisc.edu.

Regards,
-Melissa
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