Release of Bio-Formats-C++ 5.1.8

Dear All,

Today we have released the binary builds of Bio-Formats-C++ 5.1.8, together with the ome-cmake-superbuild package used for building Bio-Formats-C++ and its dependencies on Windows and other platforms. With our current C++ development efforts being devoted to the upcoming 5.2.0 release, this release contains no new features, and is restricted to security updates in our third-party dependencies. Future 5.1 releases will also be restricted to serious bugfixes and security updates.

See http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats-cpp/5.1.8/ for links to the source releases, documentation and API reference, and binary builds for a number of platforms including Windows, Linux and MacOS X.

Bio-Formats changes:

• None

CMake Super-Build changes:

• Upgrade libpng to 1.6.21 (security update)

CMake Super-Build components:

• bioformats 5.1.8
• boost 1.59
• bzip2 1.0.6
• icu 55.1
• libpng 1.6.21
• 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/5.1.8

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

Roger Leigh on behalf of the OME team