Release of OMERO 4.4.9

Today we are launching 4.4.9, a bug-fix release addressing a number of issues across all components.

For OMERO, this includes:

• fixing compatibility issues between clients and servers using different Ice versions e.g. client using Ice 3.3 connecting to a server using Ice 3.4;
• adding Ice 3.5 support (exception - Ice 3.5 server on Windows [10]);
• updating minimum system requirements to Java 1.6 (Java 1.5 is no longer supported);
• a major reworking of the testing infrastructure;
• new scripting sharing service [1] as requested by users;
• new user help website [2] to host workflow-based guides;
• new partner project pages [3] to highlight work going on within the extended OME consortium.

A security vulnerability [4] has also been identified and resolved, meaning that we strongly recommend all users upgrade their OMERO clients and servers. Sysadmin documentation for upgrading your server is here.[5]

Bio-Formats improvements include a number of bug fixes including for the ND2 format.

Full details are available on the OMERO Github milestone [6] and the Bio-Formats Github milestone [7] pages.

The software is available from OMERO [8] Downloads and Bio-Formats [9] Downloads (which you will note, have now moved to downloads.openmicroscopy.org - legacy versions to be available here soon).

Kind regards,

The OME team

1. http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/community/scripts
2. http://help.openmicroscopy.org/
3. http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/products/partner/
4. http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/products/omero/secvuln
5. http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/omero4/sysadmins/server-upgrade.html
6. http://github.com/openmicroscopy/openmicroscopy/issues?milestone=10&page=1&state=closed
7. http://github.com/openmicroscopy/bioformats/issues?milestone=6&page=1&state=closed
8. http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/omero/4.4.9/
9. http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/4.4.9/
10. http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/omero4/sysadmins/limitations.html#ice-3-5