Release of OMERO & Bio-Formats 5.1.2

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

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
• 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 Bio-Formats version history

The software is available at archived downloads and the C++ implementation is available from archived downloads

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
• 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 OMERO version history

The software is available at archived downloads

Upgrade information is at server upgrade page.

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