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
• 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/