Release of Bio-Formats 5.4.1
The OME Consortium are pleased to announce the release of Bio-Formats 5.4.1
Dear All,
Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 5.4.1 which includes the following changes:
File format improvements:
-
MIAS (Maia Scientific)
- added a fix for a possible exception when image files are not found under channel-specific subdirectories
-
BD Pathway
- added fix to check if Experiment.exp is a directory or an experiment file
-
Imspector OBF
- enabled forward compatibility for future versions as the OBF format is backwards compatible (thanks to Bjoern Thiel)
Documentation improvements:
- updated external homepage link for FocalPoint
- removed Imago from list of visualization and analysis applications as it is no longer available from the Mayachitra website
- added links to public sample files for Hamamatsu NDPI and Hamamatsu VMS (see http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/images/)
- listed OpenSlide as available software for supported formats
- added a new developer page detailing in-memory reading and writing (see https://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/bio-formats5.4/developers/in-memory.html)
- updated the Bio-Formats API versioning policy which now follows strict semantic versioning (see https://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/bio-formats5.4/about/index.html#versioning-policy)
- a new options page has been added detailing the usage of configurable format specific options for readers and writers (see https://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/bio-formats5.4/formats/options.html). Links to the available options are also included under the relevant supported formats
Full details can be found at http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/bio-formats5.4/about/whats-new.html
The software is available at:
http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/5.4.1
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