Release of Bio-Formats 5.2.3

Dear All,

Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 5.2.3, a bug-fix release.

Improvements include fixes for three formats:

• CZI
  • fixed imageCount for RGB images
• ICS writing
  • fixed ordering of image dimensions
• DeltaVision
  • fixed reading of large time dimensions

Other improvements:

• Command-line tools
  • bftools.zip now includes the version history as NEWS.rst (thanks to Gerhard Burger)
• Code clean-up
  • switched to String.indexOf(int) in GPL-licensed reader code so that a simpler library method can be used
  • strings now extended with characters where possible
  • completed deprecation of DataTools.sanitizeDouble()
  • deprecated unused OSGi and ome-tools bundle build targets
• Documentation
  • documented versioning policy
  • clarified supported versions for Micro-Manager and Olympus ScanR files
• OME-XML changes
  • bumped schema version number to 2 (schema namespace left unchanged)
  • added acquisition modes BrightField, SweptFieldConfocal and SPIM
  • added parsing for Laser Scan Confocal and Swept Field Confocal

Full details can be found at http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/bio-formats5.2/about/whats-new.html

The software is available at:

http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/5.2.3

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