Release of Bio-Formats 8.0.0

Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 8.0.0 which includes several performance improvements, expansion of the precompressed tile feature, and a new batch processing option in the showinf tool.

The full list of changes included in this release are as follows:

File format fixes and improvements:

• CV7000
  • allow TIFF files to be in a subdirectory
• DICOM
  • add support for reading precompressed tiles [1]
  • improve image write performance [1]
  • fix writing to DICOM when physical size units are missing from input data
• Evident/Olympus OIR
  • improve image read performance (thanks to Nicolas Chiaruttini)
• Hamamatsu NDPI
  • add support for reading precompressed tiles [1]
• Leica LIF
  • fix file offset calculations for datasets with unstitched tiles
• OME-TIFF
  • improve image write performance
  • add support for writing precompressed tiles [1]
• OME-XML
  • fix incorrect logical operators when checking image dimensions
• RCPNL
  • define objective metadata for lens ID 18112
• SDT
  • fix reading of files acquired with SPCM 9.90 (thanks to Chen Qian)
• Zeiss LSM
  • fix incorrect logical operators when setting channel colors

Bio-Formats improvements:

• Add a batch processing feature to showinf (thanks to Torsten Stöter)
• Update bfconvert to automatically detect the compression type when using -precompressed [1]
• Fix autoscaling of float values in AWTImageTools
• ImageJ export plugin: fix handling of multi-channel datasets
• JPEGTurboService [1]
  • add several new methods for retrieving tiles from a single JPEG stream
  • expand Javadocs for existing methods

Documentation updates:

• update all links to AwareSystems TIFF documentation to last version from Internet Archive
  • see libtiff mailing list discussion for context
• fix index of comannd-line tools
• add documentation for new batch processing feature in showinf (thanks to Torsten Stöter)
• add documentation for precompressed tiles feature [1]
• several other fixes for broken links

Component updates:

• ome-common was upgraded to 6.0.24
• cdm-core was upgraded to 5.6.0

[1] This functionality was implemented through collaboration between Glencoe Software and NCI Imaging Data Commons, and has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds from the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, under Task Order No. HHSN26110071 under Contract No. HHSN2612015000031.