Bio-Formats 4.3.3 release

Today, UW-Madison LOCI (http://loci.wisc.edu) and Glencoe Software (http://glencoesoftware.com) are pleased to announce the 4.3.3 release of Bio-Formats (http://loci.wisc.edu/bio-formats).

This release contains the following notable changes:

• Many bug fixes, including:
  • Speed improvements to HCImage/SimplePCI and Zeiss ZVI files
  • Reduce memory required by Leica LIF reader
  • More accurately populate metadata for Prairie TIFF datasets
  • Various fixes to improve the security of the OMERO plugin for ImageJ
  • Better dimension detection for Bruker MRI datasets
  • Better thumbnail generation for histology (SVS, NDPI) datasets
  • Fix stage position parsing for Metamorph TIFF datasets
  • Correctly populate the channel name for PerkinElmer Flex files

You can download Bio-Formats here:

http://loci.wisc.edu/bio-formats/downloads

As usual, we are now working towards the next release, which has yet to be named. Items which may be included in the next release are listed on this roadmap:

http://trac.openmicroscopy.org/ome/query?group=status&component=Bio-Formats&milestone=OME-5.0

We are, as always, very grateful for the bug reports, test files, and patches submitted by the community. If you have any questions or comments, or if you have found a bug, please contact us as instructed here:

http://loci.wisc.edu/software/mailing-lists.