Release of OMERO 5.2.3
The OME Consortium are pleased to announce the release of OMERO 5.2.3
Dear All,
Today we are releasing OMERO 5.2.3, a bug-fix release. Improvements include:
- fixed problem with float images
- all scripts currently exposed to users via our website have been reviewed and fixed where necessary so they are all now 5.2.x compatible, and a new omero-install workflow has been developed to ensure these are reviewed regularly going forward
- better support for metadata annotations in clients including tag/tagset support and performance issues
- fixes in OMERO.web for deleting MIFs
- improvements to the navigation of large datasets and display of plates in OMERO.web
- other OMERO.web bug fixes
- OMERO.insight and CLI import improvements
- other OMERO.insight bug fixes, including for downloading data
Developer updates include:
- Java gateway improvements
System administrator updates include:
- Ice 3.6.2 support for UNIX-like systems, including specific installation walkthroughs
- redis support for websessions caching
- a fix to allow OMERO.web to be run in a Docker container
- improved OMERO.web configuration
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warnings added regarding the end of Windows support in the 5.3.0 release
[1]
(note that we will be preparing a guide for migrating from Windows for existing servers and adding it to the documentation as soon as we can)
This release also upgrades the version of Bio-Formats which OMERO uses to 5.1.9. For more information see https://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/bio-formats5.1/about/whats-new.html.
The software is available at: http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/omero/5.2.3
Upgrade information is at http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/omero5.2/sysadmins/server-upgrade.html.
Regards,
The OME Team
[1] http://blog.openmicroscopy.org/tech-issues/future-plans/deployment/2016/03/22/windows-support/