Release of OMERO 5.4.1

Today we are releasing OMERO 5.4.1, a bug-fix release.

Improvements include:

• labeled zoom slider bars in the UI to differentiate from horizontal scrollbars and make clear thumbnails can be zoomed (including Plate and Well thumbnails)
• fixes for installation walkthrough documentation - installation of script dependencies and gunicorn, and clarification of which user account to use for pip install actions
• fixed checking of “guest” user
• update to fetch third-party artifacts over https to allow OMERO to build even without a local Maven cache already populated
• added javax.activation dependency to allow OMERO.insight to work with Java 9
• import of files reporting extreme pixel sizes now fail rather than hanging
• pyramid-making now aborts when a tile fails
• various test fixes
• CLI fixes:
  • improved help output for graphs commands to make it clearer that --include and --exclude expect class names not object IDs
  • allowed setting the OMERO_PASSWORD environment variable instead of using the -w command-line option
  • made passwords hidden by default when running omero config get
  • fixed the CLI metadata tablestest plugin to not use an empty list of Columns

This release also upgrades the version of Bio-Formats that OMERO uses to 5.7.2.

The software is available at archived downloads.

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