Release of Bio-Formats 5.7.3

Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 5.7.3 which includes the following changes:

File format fixes and improvements:

• TIFF
  • fixed a NullPointerException when reading a TIFF file from the root system directory
  • improved support for large images that are stored as a single uncompressed tile with multiple interleaved channels
• MRC (Medical Research Council)
  • added support in original metadata for the fields ISPG and Is data cube
• TillPhotonics TillVision
  • directory listings for .pst files are now sorted
• MetaMorph
  • directory listings are now sorted during file initialization
• Amira Mesh
  • now supports Avizo in the file header in addition to the existing support for AmiraMesh
• Becker & Hickl SPCImage
  • added a fix for IllegalArgumentException when reading files with compressed data
• Zeiss CZI
  • fixed an IndexOutOfBoundsException when creating ROI objects

Bug fixes and improvements:

• removed unused target utils-formats-api from ant build
• automated Memoizer tests updated to use UUID for generating unique memo file directories
• detect and fix Findbugs’ SBSC_USE_STRINGBUFFER_CONCATENATION using StringBuilder
• configuration files for the automated test suite now use raw physical size rather than formatted size
• added first version of Dockerfile for running the automated test suite standalone

Documentation improvements:

• added a support page to the Bio-Formats project
• updated reference URLs for the Aperio ImageScope and Micro-Manager
• documented issues with conflicts in the JAI ImageIO component
• clarified the default values of HCS keys for fake images in the documentation for Generating test images
• corrected external links which failed automatic link checking

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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