Release of Bio-Formats 5.1.5

Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 5.1.5, a point release focusing on bug fixing:

Java bug fixes include:

• ImageJ plugins
  • fixed use of “Group files…” and “Open files individually” options
  • fixed placement of ROIs
  • fixed size of the “About Plugins > Bio-Formats Plugins” window
• xsd-fu (code generation)
  • removed OMERO-specific logic
• Metamorph
  • fixed physical Z size calculation
• Gatan DM3/DM4
  • fixed physical pixel size parsing
• BMP
  • added support for RLE compression
• DICOM
  • updated to respect the WINDOW_CENTER tag
  • fixed image dimensions when multiple sets of width and height values are present
• Fluoview and Andor TIFF
  • fixed physical Z size calculation
• Imspector OBF
  • updated to parse OME-XML metadata (thanks to Bjoern Thiel)

C++ changes:

• TIFF strip/tile row and column calculations corrected to compute the correct row and column count
• several compiler warnings removed (false positive warnings in third-party headers disabled, and additional warnings fixed)
• it is now possible to build with Boost 1.59 and compile with a C++ 14 compiler

The source release is now provided in both tar.xz and zip formats.

The documentation has also been updated, with substantial updates to the format pages:

• improved linking of reader/writer classes to each format page
• improved supported metadata pages for each format
• updated format page formatting for clarity
• new developer documentation for adding and modifying format pages

Full details can be found at Bio-Formats version history

The software is available at: archived downloads

The C++ superbuilds and platform builds will be released shortly.

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