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Release of Bio-Formats 5.1.8

Postby hflynn » Mon Feb 15, 2016 9:52 am

Dear All,

Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 5.1.8, a point release focusing on bug fixing:

Java bug fixes, including:

  • FEI TIFF
    • fixed stage position parsing and whitespace handling (thanks to Antoine Vandecreme)
  • Pyramid TIFF
    • fixed tile reading when a cache (.bfmemo) file is present
  • MicroManager
    • updated to parse JSON data from tags 50839 and 51123
    • fixed to detect *_metadata.txt files in addition to metadata.txt files
    • fixed to handle datasets with each stack in a single file
  • OME-XML
    • updated to make .ome.xml an official extension
  • OME-TIFF
    • fixed to ignore invalid BinaryOnly elements
  • TIFF
    • fixed caching of BigTIFF files
  • Slidebook
    • fixed handling of montages in Slidebook6Reader (thanks to Richard Myers)
  • Performance improvement for writing files to disk (thanks to Stephane Dallongeville)
  • Build system
    • fixed Maven POMs to reduce calls to artifacts.openmicroscopy.org
    • fixed bioformats_package.jar to include the loci.formats.tools package

Documentation updates, including:
  • updated format pages to include links to example data
  • clarified description of Qu for MATLAB (thanks to Carnë Draug)
  • added installation instructions for Octave (thanks to Carnë Draug)

C++:
  • Bugfixes to the OME-TIFF writer to correct use of the metadata store with multiple series
  • Ensure file and writer state consistency upon close failure

The software is available at:
http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/5.1.8

The C++ superbuilds and platform builds will be released shortly.

Any problems or comments, please use the OME Forums or mailing lists:

http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/community

Regards,

The OME Team
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