Release of Bio-Formats 6.0.1

Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 6.0.1 which included the following changes:

File format fixes and improvements:

• cellSens VSI
  • improved tag parsing resulting in fixes for missing or incorrect metadata
• Hamamatsu ndpi
  • improved handling of variants where a constituent NDPI has no wavelength
• LaVision Imspector
  • fixed a potential NullPointerException when ‘xyz-Table Z Resolution’ is false
• NRRD (Nearly Raw Raster Data)
  • added support for raw GZIP-compressed data files
• Olympus OIR
  • fix to ensure file path is normalised which fixes detection on Windows
• TIFF
  • improved handling of direct tile copying to prevent invalid images
  • improved handling of tiles in scenarios of an invalid offset or byte count of 0

Documentation improvements:

• added documentation for -noflat option to the showinf and bfconvert users pages
• updated recommended minimal MATLAB version to R2017b
• documented support for in MATLAB versions prior to R2017b
• links to MicroCT public datasets now point to the public archive rather than directly to the zip file

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.

Any problems or comments, please use the image.sc forum.