Release of OMERO 5.2.2

Dear All,

Today we are releasing OMERO 5.2.2, a bug-fix release which also introduces some new client features. Improvements include:

• display of ROI masks in OMERO.web image viewer
• display of OMERO.tables data for Wells in the OMERO.web right hand panel
• 'Populate Metadata' script to enable generation of OMERO.tables for Wells is now usable from both OMERO.web and OMERO.insight (note this is still in development and has some limitations)
• measurement tool fixes
• fixed pixel size metadata and scalebar in OMERO.web image viewer for images with pixel size units other than micrometer
• fixed OMERO.web handling of turning off interpolation of pixels
• previous and next buttons fixed in OMERO.web image viewer
• delete and change group performance improvements
• better handling of dates in search
• client support for map annotations in OME-TIFF
• disabled orphaned container feature
• OMERO.web clean-up to remove obsolete volume viewer

Developer updates include:

• Python API examples for creating Polygon and Mask shapes
• Python API example for "Populate Metadata" to create OMERO.tables for Wells
• OMERO.tables documentation extended
• updated 'What's New for developers' to clarify that 'pojos' has been renamed as 'omero.gateway.model'
• dynamic scripts functionality documented
• dynamic loading of omero.client server settings into HTTP sessions

System administrator updates include:

• clarification of OMERO.web documentation for nginx deployment, including an experimental solution to resolve download issues
• documentation of hard-linking issues for in-place import on linux systems

Note that the OMERO Virtual Appliance has been discontinued and will not be updated for version 5.2.2 or any later releases.

The software is available at: http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/omero/5.2.2

Upgrade information is at http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/omero5.2/sysadmins/server-upgrade.html.

Regards,

The OME Team