Bio-Formats October 2009 Release

Today LOCI and Glencoe Software have released version 4.1 of Bio-Formats. This release includes the following changes:

• Fixed many bugs in most file format readers
• Significantly improved confocal and HCS metadata parsing
• Improved C++ bindings and examples
• Eliminated references to Java AWT classes in core Bio-Formats packages
• Added support for reading Flex datasets from multiple servers
• Improved OME-XML generation; generated OME-XML is now valid
• Added support for Olympus ScanR data
• Added OSGi information to JARs
• Added support for Amira Mesh files
• Added support for LI-FLIM files
• Added more informative exceptions
• Added support for various types of ICS lifetime data
• Added support for Nikon EZ-C1 TIFFs
• Added support for Maia Scientific MIAS data

You can download the latest release at:

http://loci.wisc.edu/ome/formats-download.html

We have not yet planned a release date for the next version of Bio-Formats. However, you can view the roadmap for the next release at:

https://skyking.microscopy.wisc.edu/trac/java/milestone/bio-formats-4.2

We would like to thank current users of Bio-Formats for their help and guidance in producing this release - without your bug reports, patches, and sample files, we wouldn't be where we are today.

If you have questions, comments or concerns regarding Bio-Formats, we would love to hear them. Bug reports and general usage questions should be sent to the Bio-Formats developers at bioformats@loci.wisc.edu. Licensing and commercial usage questions should be sent to bioformats@glencoesoftware.com.