Release of OMERO 5.4.2

WARNING:

As of 26th January, an issue has been identified with OMERO.web 5.4.2. We recommend you do not upgrade, see this announcement for further details.

Today we are releasing OMERO 5.4.2, a bug-fix release.

Improvements include:

• added documentation on a complete workflow for publishing data from OMERO.server
• added references to the new OMERO pyramid format documentation (within the OME Data Model and File Formats documentation)
• faster loading of thumbnails for large Plates after a recent regression
• made projecting images belonging to another user only possible for users with the required permissions to save the new images
• improved the public user experience for password-less access
• updated SwingX library version used by OMERO.insight to stop insight-ij plugin crashing in Fiji
• CLI updates:
  • import --target into a container without the necessary permissions now fails before file upload starts and more transparently
  • admin mail timeout is now configurable via --wait
  • added admin log command for inserting statements to the server log

Sysadmin changes include:

• added warning about the need to regenerate your NGINX config for every upgrade
• fixed documentation bug affecting OMERO-version-specific guidance
• improved OMERO.tables startup stability
• server performance improvements and reduction in ERROR logging

Developer updates include:

• extended Python and Java examples to include Map Annotations and histograms
• added methods for updating OMERO.tables
• Java Gateway fixes for sessions and rendering
• fixed retrieval of Plate thumbnail URLs
• improved Editing OMERO.web documentation
• improved Slice documentation for API deprecations
• added instructions to documentation for OMERO.cli extensions on how to create CLI plugins that are pip installable
• substantial effort to make third-party repositories easily testable; see omero-test-infra for more information

This release also upgrades the version of Bio-Formats that OMERO uses to 5.7.3.

The software is available at archived downloads.

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