Java bug fixes:
Performance improvement for writing files to disk (thanks to Stephane Dallongeville)
Prevent physical pixel sizes from being rounded to 0, for all formats
The source release is now provided in both tar.xz and zip formats
Fixed segfault in the showinf tool used with the C++ bindings
Allow reading from https URLs
Added OME-TIFF writing support to the native C++ implementation
OME-TIFF export: switch to BigTIFF if .ome.tf2, .ome.tf8, or .ome.btf extensions are used
Improved MATLAB developer documentation
Added SlideBook reader that uses the SDK from 3I (thanks to Richard Myers and 3I - Intelligent Imaging Innovations)
Preliminary work to make MATLAB toolbox work with Octave
Add TIFF writing support to the native C++ implementation
Fixed remaining functional differences between Windows and Mac/Linux
Improved performance of ImageJ plugin when working with ROIs
TIFF export: switch to BigTIFF if .tf2, .tf8, or .btf extensions are used
fixed upgrade checking to more accurately report when a new version is available
Improvements to performance with network file systems
Improvements to developer documentation
Initial version of native C++ implementation
Improved support for opening and saving ROI data with ImageJ
Added support for CellH5 data (thanks to Christophe Sommer)
Added support for Perkin Elmer Nuance data (thanks to Lee Kamentsky)
Added support for Amnis FlowSight data (thanks to Lee Kamentsky and Sebastien Simard)
Added support for Veeco AFM data
Added support for Zeiss .lms data (not to be confused with .lsm)
Added support for I2I data
Added support for writing Vaa3D data (thanks to Brian Long)
Updated to OME schema 2015-01
Update RandomAccessInputStream and RandomAccessOutputStream to read and write bits
Fix build errors in MIPAV plugin
Many bug fixes for Nikon .nd2 files
Improved metadata saving in MATLAB functions
Many bug fixes for Zeiss .czi files
Update native-lib-loader version (to 2.0.1)
Updates and improvements to user documentation
Added image pyramid support for CellSens .vsi data
Performance improvements for Becker & Hickl .sdt file reading (thanks to Ian Munro)
Performance improvements to directory listing over NFS
Update slf4j and logback versions (to 1.7.6 and 1.1.1 respectively)
Update jgoodies-forms version (to 1.7.2)
Updated Maven build system and launched new Artifactory repository (http://artifacts.openmicroscopy.org)
Added support for populating and parsing ModuloAlong{Z, C, T} annotations for FLIM/SPIM data
Updated netCDF and slf4j version requirements - netCDF 4.3.19 and slf4j 1.7.2 are now required
Updated and improved MATLAB users and developers documentation
Many bug fixes including for Nikon ND2, Zeiss CZI, and CellWorX formats
Updated to 2013-06 OME-XML schema
Improved the performance in tiled formats
Added caching of Reader metadata using http://code.google.com/p/kryo/
Restructured and improved documentation
Many, many bug fixes
Updated Zeiss LSM reader to parse application tags
Various performance improvements, particularly for reading/writing TIFFs
Updated OMERO ImageJ plugin to work with OMERO 4.3.x
Added various options to the ‘showinf’ and ‘bfconvert’ command line tools
Added better tests for OME-XML backwards compatibility
Added the ability to roughly stitch tiles in a multi-position dataset
Updated JPEG-2000 reading and writing support to be more flexible
Updated to 2011-06 OME-XML schema
Minor speed improvements in many formats
Switched version control system from SVN to Git
Moved all Trac tickets into the OME Trac: https://trac.openmicroscopy.org
Improvements to testing frameworks
Added Maven build system as an alternative to the existing Ant build system
Added pre-compiled C++ bindings to the download page
Proper support for OME-XML XML annotations
Added support for SCANCO Medical .aim files
Minor improvements to ImageJ plugins
Added support for reading JPEG-compressed AVI files
Many, many bug fixes
Updated Zeiss LSM metadata parsing, with generous assistance from Zeiss, FMI, and MPI-CBG
Lots of work to ensure that converted OME-XML validates
Improved file stitching functionality; non-numerical file patterns and limited regular expression-style patterns are now supported
4.1 (2009 October 21):
Many critical bugfixes in format readers and ImageJ plugins
Fixed bugs in Zeiss LSM, Metamorph STK, FV1000 OIB/OIF, Leica LEI, TIFF, Zeiss ZVI, ICS, Prairie, Openlab LIFF, Gatan, DICOM, QuickTime
Fixed bug in OME-TIFF writer
Major changes to MetadataStore API
Added support for JPEG-compressed TIFF files
Improved “crop on import” functionality
Improvements to bfconvert and bfview
Improved OME-XML population for several formats
Added support for JPEG2000-compressed DICOM files
EXIF data is now parsed from TIFF files
Fixed bugs in ND2, Leica LIF, DICOM, Zeiss ZVI, Zeiss LSM, FV1000 OIB, FV1000 OIF, BMP, Evotec Flex, BioRad PIC, Slidebook, TIFF
Added new ImageJ plugins to slice stacks and do “smart” RGB merging
Improved stack slicing and colorizing logic in importer plugin
Fixed bugs with signed pixel data
Added support for Imaris 5.5 (HDF) files
Added 4 channel merging to importer plugin
Added API methods for reading subimages
Major updates to the 4D Data Browser