Release of Bio-Formats 5.5.1
The OME Consortium are pleased to announce the release of Bio-Formats 5.5.1
Dear All,
Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 5.5.1 which includes the following changes:
File format improvements:
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CellH5
- fix for HDF5SymbolTableException when recycling an IFormatReader to reopen another CellH5 file
- bug fix related to opening of subsets of CellH5 files, namely openBytes(r, no, x, y, w, h) for y>0
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Zeiss CZI
- fix pyramid resolution indexing for pyramids of different depths
- fix for incorrect channel names and colors
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Zeiss AxioVision ZVI
- correct parsing of epoch for Zeiss TIFF and Zeiss ZVI
Bug fixes:
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Command line tools
- fix for java.lang. NegativeArraySizeException caused by incorrect dimensions when using showinf via command line with options set to autoscale and crop
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Format tools
- fix for java.lang. IndexOutOfBoundsException when using getFilename[1] with an image containing multiple samples per pixel channels and a single effective channel
Updated build system:
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Autogen jobs
- fix for gen-meta-support to locate available org.openmicroscopy:ome-xml sources from the Maven repository following the decoupling of the model components
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FileHandleTest
- exclude JHDF5 native libraries from FileHandleTest to enable CellH5 files to be included in daily tests
Documentation improvements:
- added a new example file[2] for reading and writing of XZ and YZ orthogonal planes
Full details can be found at http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/bio-formats5.5/about/whats-new.html
The software is available at:
http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/5.5.1
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
[1] https://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/5.5.1/api/loci/formats/FormatTools.html#getFilename-int-int-loci.formats.IFormatReader-java.lang.String-
[2] https://github.com/openmicroscopy/bioformats/blob/develop/docs/sphinx/developers/examples/OrthogonalReader.java