Release of OMERO.iviewer 0.5.0

Today we are releasing version 0.5.0 of OMERO.iviewer: an OMERO.web app for visualizing images in OMERO. This is a major step towards moving to a full production-ready version that we aim to release before the end of 2018.

This version requires OMERO 5.4.0 or newer. This version includes:

• disabled projection for image where sizeX * sizeY > 4000000
• added option to display pixels intensity when mousing over image
• enabled viewing of multiple images in the same browser window by double-clicking
• added support for opening the image in other installed applications e.g. OMERO.figure
• added option to export ROIs statistics in CSV file or Excel file
• improved ROIs creation, manipulation and persistence
• improved copy/paste of ROIs across images
• added new icon for polyline
• improved handling of statistical values
• handled images with large number of channels
• added menus in header
• improved loading and display of bird’s eye view
• improved loading of tiles
• correctly handled data access depending on permissions level
• improved UI
• added minimal support for masks
• updated documentation
• reviewed build system to reduce the bundled size
• improved build system for development
• improved testing infrastructure
• upgraded Webpack to 3.6.0
• upgraded Openlayers to version 4.6.5
• upgraded JQuery to version 3.3.1

For installation instructions go to omero-iviewer on PyPI.

For more information about OMERO.iviewer in general, and to watch an introductory movie, see the new OMERO.iviewer webpage.

Any problems or comments, please use the OME Forums or mailing lists.