The Open Microscopy Environment

Today we are releasing OMERO 5.4.4, a bug-fix release which also introduces some new functionality.

It includes a security fix for 2017-SV6 Job-File Link. It is highly recommended that you upgrade your server.

Improvements include:

images can now be filtered by Tag in the center panel of OMERO.web
enabled search by “File” and “Tag” annotations separately in OMERO.web, as opposed to only being able to search by All annotations
fixed switching between grid display and thumbnail display in OMERO.web
fixed the image preview and disabled projection in OMERO.insight when trying to project an image with all the channels turned off
fixed parsing of polygons and polyline ROIs so they can be opened in ImageJ
fixed creation of OMERO pyramids for little-endian files
improved error message when login fails for OMERO.insight
improved handling of idle connections in OMERO.insight
improved loading speed of LUT
OMERO.insight and OMERO.importer are now compatible with Java 9

Sysadmin improvements include:

improved installation documentation for OMERO.web, and OMERO.server on Debian 9, Ubuntu 16.04 and CentOS 7
added an admin command and script to allow deletion of corrupted pyramids created by a bug introduced with OMERO 5.2 (new uncorrupted pyramids can then be generated - see Server Upgrade for details)
allowed enforcement of a secure connection when importing data
added commands to the CLI sessions plugin to enable the creation and removal of user sessions

Developer updates include:

improved test infrastructure and coverage
allowed filtering by namespace (ns) in webclient, API and annotations
added support for more rendering parameters to the API
added the option to respect a specific tile size
added a method to load planes using JavaGateway
added an example to the documentation for using “sudo” to create sessions for others with the JavaGateway
documentation is now compatible with Sphinx 1.7

This release does not upgrade the version of Bio-Formats which OMERO uses, which remains at 5.7.3.

Release of OMERO 5.4.4