Release of Bio-Formats 5.1.7

Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 5.1.7, a point release focusing on bug fixing:

Java bug fixes, including:

• Prevent physical pixel sizes from being rounded to 0, for all formats
• Metamorph
  • fixed calculation of Z step size
  • fixed detection of post-processed dual camera acquisitions (thanks to Mark Kittisopikul)
• OME-XML
  • fixed XML validation when an ‘xmlns’ value is not present (thanks to Bjoern Thiel)
• MINC
  • fixed endianness of image data
• Andor/Fluoview TIFF
  • fixed calculation of Z step size
• MATLAB
  • improved performance by reducing static classpath checks (thanks to Mark Kittisopikul)
• Gatan
  • fixed physical size parsing in non-English locales
• Automated testing
  • fixed handling of non-default physical size and plane position units

Documentation updates, including:

• updated MapAnnotation example to show linkage of annotations to images

The software is available at archived downloads.

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