Release of Bio-Formats 6.11.0

Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 6.11.0 which includes the following changes:

File format fixes and improvements:

• Amira Mesh
  • fixed handling of files with empty key values
• InCell 1000/2000
  • improved calculation of plane count
• Nikon NIS-Elements ND2
  • fixed handling of chunk map skipping logic
• Olympus FluoView FV1000
  • fixed an exception when parsing double values in the metadata
• OME-TIFF
  • improved initialization performance for files with a large number of planes
  • enabled individual file reading for datasets with one file per series
• SimplePCI & HCImage
  • fixed physical size calculation to make use of magnification value
• TIFF
  • implemented Zstandard decompression for Tiff formats (thanks to Willem Pomp)

Bio-Formats improvements:

• updated pattern file handling to support a single file wrapped in a pattern file
• Bio-Formats plugin now closes underlying readers after an exception
• contrast will be retained when using VirtualImagePlus in the Bio-Formats plugin (thanks to Tomas Farago)
• fixed overwrite checking in bfconvert tool when output path is a pattern

Documentation improvements:

• fixed a number of broken links
• updated test image documentation to add note on on setting fake file channel colors
• added new public sample files for Olympus-FluoView
• updated OME-TIFF sample files for BBBC017

Component updates:

• ome-codecs was upgraded to 0.4.1
• snakeyaml was upgraded to 1.3.1