Release of Bio-Formats 6.6.1

Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 6.6.1 which includes the following changes:

File format fixes and improvements:

• CV7000
  • fixed the channel-wise ordering of planes. The implementation changes to channel mapping will require existing memo files to be regenerated for CV7000 datasets
• Hamamatsu NDPIS
  • transmittance values will now be used to pick valid channels if no wavelength present
• Leica SCN
  • updated position units from reference frame to nm
  • original metadata now populated correctly for all series
• MetaMorph Stack
  • support added for parsing NDInfoFile Version to determined correct file suffix
  • improved detection of companion binary files
• MetaXpress
  • improved detection of thumbnail paths
• Nikon NIS-Elements ND2
  • made performance improvements to reduce memory usage when reading large datasets
• Olympus OIR
  • fixed a bug which resulted in blank planes when XML blocks end with CRLF

Documentation improvements:

• updated bfconvert documentation for using pattern string on Windows (thanks to Nathanael Reveal)
• added a Fiji usage note to the Tecan Spark Cyto Workspace format page
• added references to the public Imaris IMS format specification page

Bio-Formats improvements:

• added support for ChannelName in Fake series tables