Release of OMERO 5.5.1

Today we are releasing OMERO 5.5.1, a full production-ready release of OMERO.

This bug fix release focuses on installation issues that were seen with 5.5.0 and also upgrades the version of Bio-Formats which OMERO uses to 6.1.1.

This version does not require a database upgrade.

• OMERO.web:
  • Allow the customization of the web logo
  • Allow overriding server configuration
  • Dynamically look up client download links
  • Fix description in new Project, Dataset etc.
  • Fix layout of the user account form
• Java gateway:
  • New methods added to allow change group of objects
  • New methods added to load objects (datasets, etc.) by name
  • New methods added to get original and repository paths of images
  • Minor fixes in createDataset and getPixelSize methods
• Import:
  • Add import target support for creating Projects
• Scripts:
  • Enable annotating Projects and Datasets with the Populate Metadata script
• OMERO.server:
  • Fix SSL cipher issue to allow Insight to be used from Fedora 30
  • Fix issue with loading Hibernate’s DTD when offline
  • Properly close OMERO.tables which kept sessions alive

Note: Due to the stricter closing of OMERO.tables, it may be necessary to update plugins like omero-metadata which previously were leaking files.

The software is available at archived downloads. Clients are no longer available from that location since they will be released more frequently than the server.

OMERO.insight is now available at release v5.5.3.

• Fix SSL cipher issue to allow Insight to be used from Fedora 30
• Fix stack overflow exception
• Bump to omero-gateway-java 5.5.3

Official Docker images are available on Docker Hub:

• https://hub.docker.com/r/openmicroscopy/omero-web-standalone/
• https://hub.docker.com/r/openmicroscopy/omero-server/

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