Release of OMERO & Bio-Formats 5.1.2
The OME Consortium are pleased to announce the release of OMERO & Bio-Formats 5.1.2
Dear All,
Today we are releasing OMERO and Bio-Formats 5.1.2. This is a point release that contains bug-fixes, but also adds several new features to Bio-Formats and OMERO.
Bio-Formats
Bio-Formats 5.1.2 adds writing support for OME-TIFF to the native C++ implementation, allows export of OME BigTIFF, and adds a Slidebook6 reader (many thanks to Richard Myers of 3i - Intelligent Imaging Innovations (https://www.intelligent-imaging.com)
Other improvements include:
- improved MATLAB developer documentation
- preliminary work to make MATLAB toolbox work with Octave
- ImageJ fixes for getPlanePosition* macro extension methods and display of composite color virtual stacks
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many bug fixes for formats including:
- Nikon ND2 - improved parsing of plane position and timestamp data
- TIFF - reduced memory required to read color lookup tables
- Zeiss LSM - improved parsing of 16-bit color lookup tables
- Zeiss CZI - fixed ordering of original metadata table and reading of large pre-stitched tiled images
- AIM - fixed handling of truncated files
- Metamorph/MetaXpress TIFF - improved UIC1 metadata tag parsing
- Leica LIF - improved metadata handling
Full details can be found at http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/bio-formats5.1/about/whats-new.html
The software is available at: http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/5.1.2 and the C++ implementation is available from: http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats-cpp/5.1.2/
OMERO
OMERO 5.1.2 features a number of bug fixes and also introduces some new functionality.
Improvements include:
- Read-Write group support
- LDAP plugin can now set group owners
- auto log-in via webstart for users already logged into OMERO.web
- ability to attach results tables from ImageJ/Fiji to your images in OMERO
- better delete functionality and warnings in the UI
- magnification values now displayed as multiplication factors (e.g. 40x) rather than percentages
- long file names more readable in OMERO.insight data tree
- various deployment fixes
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OMERO.web updates include:
- image interpolation on zoom
- optimization of plate grid and right-hand panel
- download single original files
- faster loading of large datasets
Critical bug fixes include:
- in-place import file handle leak
- various unicode and unit failures (thanks to Tristan Nowak for his help in identifying several of these bugs)
Full details are available at http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/omero5.1/users/history.html
The software is available at: http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/omero/5.1.2
Upgrade information is at http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/omero5.1/sysadmins/server-upgrade.html.
Any problems or comments, please use the OME Forums or mailing lists:
http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/community
Regards,
The OME Team