Release of OMERO.server 5.6.8

Today we are releasing OMERO.server 5.6.8 which includes:

• support histogram for tiled images and fix generation of histogram for float images
• add default scanning period in logback.
• an upgrade of Bio-Formats to version 6.14.0, see the release announcement.

Note: This upgrade will invalidate the Bio-Formats Memoizer cache. Please see the upgrade guide for further information. We also recommend to re-index the database especially if the OMERO server has a large number of High Content Screening data.

Installing the Software:

For full details of the changes included in the OMERO 5.6 series see the OMERO 5.6.0 release announcement. Full documentation for this release is available under https://omero.readthedocs.io/en/v5.6.7-1/.

This release has been tested with OMERO.py 5.14.0 and OMERO.web 5.22.0. We recommend that you upgrade OMERO.py and OMERO.web accordingly on your deployments.

Official Docker images are available as usual on Docker Hub with either the latest or the 5.6 tag:

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

You are invited to discuss this announcement on the image.sc forum.

All the best with your upgrades,

The OME Team