Release of OME Files C++ 0.5.0

OME Files is a reference implementation of the OME Data Model and OME-TIFF file format for the storage and interchange of biological imaging data and metadata. It provides support for:

• the OME Data Model (model objects, metadata store, XSL transforms and XML validation)
• OME-TIFF reading
• OME-TIFF writing

The main change in this release is the re-addition of compatibility code to permit building on CentOS7 and RHEL7 with EPEL. Other work includes the switch to C++11 threads and mutexes from the Boost equivalents, and preliminary CMake support for building with C++17 compilers.

Downloads

The software release is available at archived downloads. This includes the source releases, as well as the documentation and binary builds of the collection for several common platforms, including Windows, Linux and MacOS X.

Upgrading from 0.4.x

• No changes required.

Changes since OME Files C++ 0.4.0

All components

• Use CMP0067 to enable standard setting in feature tests
• CMake 3.4 is the minimum version
• Use C++11 <thread> and <mutex>
• Restore support for Boost 1.53
• Add support for Boost 1.65 and 1.65.1
• Drop embedded copies of CMake FindBoost, FindXalanC and FindXercesC
• Only run thread tests with CMake ≥3.8

OME Common

• Conditionally add Boost::log and Boost::log_setup to exported configuration

OME Model

• Add missing explicit <sstream> include
• Remove REQUIRED from exported cmake configuration

OME Files

• Add tiling performance benchmark documentation
• Add missing implicit <cstdlib> and <iostream> includes
• Remove REQUIRED from exported cmake configuration

OME QtWidgets

• Remove REQUIRED from exported cmake configuration
• Add Dockerfile for building with Travis

OME Files Python (experimental)

• Added OME-TIFF writer support

Super-Build 0.5.0

• Windows batch files are always checked out with CRLF line endings
• Support building with EPEL packages (CentOS and RHEL 7)
• Download required Python build dependencies into a virtualenv rather than downloading and installing individually
• Package changes:
  • ome-common 5.5.0: Updated package
  • ome-model 5.6.0: Updated package
  • ome-files 0.5.0: Updated package
  • ome-files-performance: New experimental package (git only)
  • ome-qtwidgets 5.4.3: Updated package
  • boost 1.65.1: Updated package
  • png 1.6.34: Updated package
  • pybind11 2.2.1: New package
  • tiff 4.0.9: Updated package
  • yaml-cpp 0.5.3: New package
  • all python-* packages are now installed with pip

Errata

See the errata for this release.

Support

For any problems or comments, please use the OME forums or mailing lists.