Release of Bio-Formats 5.7.2

Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 5.7.2 which includes the following changes:

File format fixes and improvements:

• Nikon ND2
  • fixed a bug which would use the incorrect channel count for small-sized single channel images
• MetaMorph TIFF
  • changed the reader’s behavior to populate exposure times for all planes when only a single exposure time is defined
• DeltaVision
  • improved parsing of the associated log files to add additional key value pairs to global metadata
• EPS (Encapsulated PostScript)
  • fixed an exception when reading pixel data in cases with embedded TIFF
• GIF
  • fixed a bug to display the correct data when reading planes out of order

Bug fixes and improvements:

• fixed failures with Ant build from a clean Maven repository by updating Maven repositories to use HTTPS rather than HTTP
• now using safe version checking for Bio-Formats plugins to prevent a bug with Java 9
• updated the JPEG-XR codec to allow either interleaved or non-interleaved data to be returned

Documentation improvements:

• added clarification regarding Bio-Formats version requirements for using Java 7 or above
• updated download links to latest Bio-Formats release version
• updated the link to the most active fork of JAI ImageIO
• fixed a number of external broken links
• added a Trello link for contributing external developers
• added a link to Adding format/reader documentation pages to help those contributing to the documentation or supported formats pages
• the Bio-Rad Gel page has been updated to add a link to biorad1sc_reader, an external Python implementation (thanks to Matthew Clapp)

Full details can be found at Bio-Formats version history.

The software is available at archived downloads and will shortly be available from the Java-8 update site for Fiji users.

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