Release of Bio-Formats-C++ 5.1.5

Dear All,

Today we have released the binary builds of Bio-Formats-C++ 5.1.5, together with the ome-cmake-superbuild package used for building Bio-Formats-C++ and its dependencies on Windows and other platforms.

See http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats-cpp/5.1.5/ for links to the source releases, documentation and API reference, and binary builds for a number of platforms which now include Windows with VS2013.

Bio-Formats changes:

• TIFF strip/tile row and column calculations corrected to compute the correct row and column count
• several compiler warnings removed (false positive warnings in third-party headers disabled, and additional warnings fixed)
• it is now possible to build with Boost 1.59 and compile with a C++ 14 compiler

CMake Super-Build changes:

• Upgrade Boost to 1.59
• Use tar source release; this permits building on platforms which could not unpack the source zip
• Add recursive dependency addition; this makes the superbuild much more adaptable for the use of optional and version-specific packages, and the addition of new packages
• Add required Python modules (genshi and sphinx) and their dependencies

CMake Super-Build components:

• bioformats 5.1.5
• boost 1.59
• bzip2 1.0.6
• icu 55.1
• libpng 1.6.17
• py-docutils 0.12
• py-genshi 0.7
• py-jinja2 2.7.3
• py-markupsafe 0.23
• py-pygments 2.0.2
• py-setuptools 18.3.2
• py-sphinx 1.2.3
• tiff 4.0.6
• xerces-c 3.1.2
• zlib 1.2.8

The software release is available at: http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats-cpp/5.1.5

For any problems or comments, please use the OME forums or mailing lists: http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/community

The OME Team