Release of OMERO & Bio-Formats 5.0.7

Today we are launching 5.0.7, a bug-fixing release.

For OMERO this includes:

• Rendering improvements including 32 bit and float support
• Vast improvements in Mac launching (separate clients for your Java version)
• Faster import of complex plates
• OMERO.dropbox improvements
• ROI and measurement tool fixes
• OMERO.matlab updates

Bio-Formats fixes include:

• ND filter parsing for DeltaVision
• Timepoint count and original metadata parsing for Metamorph
• Build issues when Genshi or Git are missing
• LZW image decoding
• Minor core formats (OME/XML/TIFF) improvements
• Minor doc improvements - Eclipse build instructions and documenting using Bio-Formats in Python (extensive developer doc improvements coming in 5.1)

The software is available from http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/omero/5.0.7/ and http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/5.0.7/

For information on upgrading your server, see the upgrade guide for system administrators - http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/omero5/sysadmins/server-upgrade.html

For full details of the next major release, see the 5.1 milestone page - http://trac.openmicroscopy.org.uk/ome/milestone/5.1.0

Kind regards, The OME team