OMERO Version History

OMERO Beta 3.0 — released June 08

This release of OMERO is a major update of functionality. In OMERO.server, we have added support for StructuredAnnotations a flexible data management facility that allows essentially any kind of accessory data to be linked to images and experiments stored in OMERO. Alongside this, we provide an indexing engine, that provides a flexible searching facility for essentially any text stored in an installation of OMERO.server. Finally, we are releasing our first examples of clients that use the OMERO.blitz server, a flexible, distributed interface that supports a range of client environments. One very exciting addition is OMERO.java, a gateway that can be used to access OMERO from Matlab®. We've put up a screencast movie of this system in action.

OMERO Beta3.0 includes a substantial reworking of our clients as well. OMERO.insight has been substantially updated, with an updated interface to provide a more natural workflow and support for many different types of annotations, through the StructuredAnnotations facility. The new search facilities are supported with smart user interfaces, with auto-complete, etc. New file formats have been added to OMERO.importer, including support for OME-XML, and an improved import history facility is now available. Finally, Beta3.0 includes the first release of our experimental electronic notebook tool, OMERO.editor. This represents our recent efforts to capture as much metadata around an experiment as possible.

OMERO Beta 2.3.3 insight — released April 08

A new Beta 2.3.3 OMERO.insight has been released, this adds rotation to ellipse figure, and new format for saving intensity values.

Note: this version saves the ROI's in a format which is incompatible with previous saved ROIs.

OMERO Beta 2.3.1 importer — released Feb 08

A new Beta 2.3.1 OMERO.importer has been released which includes a number of new formats: Zeiss AxioVision ZVI (Zeiss Vision Image), Nikon NIS-Elements .ND2 , Olympus FluoView FV1000, ICS (Image Cytometry Standard), PerkinElmer UltraView, and Jpeg2000.

The OMERO downloads for Beta 2.3 include a number of new options including: a new import history feature, a windows server installation, and a new tagging feature for OMERO.insight.

Note: milestone:3.0-Beta2.3 and prior Mac OS X Installers for OMERO.server do not work on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5). Please follow the UNIX Based Platform manual install instructions. Mac OS X Installers for OMERO.insight and OMERO.importer work just fine under Leopard and can be used.

OMERO Beta 2.3 — released Dec 07

This is a patch release for OMERO.server to fix a memory problem. In OMERO.insight, updating of the tagging facility, viewing of other's rendering settings and support for server-side compression of images before transport to client.

OMERO Beta 2.2 — released Nov 07

In this release we have updated OMERO.server to run a newer version of JBOSS and provided support for copying display settings across a range of images. More new file formats. OMERO.insight has been updated to support copying display settings across many images. Image Viewer has been substantially updated.

OMERO Beta 2.1 — released Aug 07

This is a client only release-- OMERO.insight now supports basic ROI measurements and a series of new file formats have been added. The OMERO downloads for Beta 2.0 have been simplified. OMERO.insight and OMERO.importer have been combined into a single download file called 'OMERO.clients' and the user documentation is now included inside of the server and client downloads.

OMERO Beta 2.0 — released June 07

Note: this version will still work with the Beta 1 server release. This major update provided our first support for multiple platforms via OMERO.Blitz. OMERO.insight now supports viewing work of multiple users (see milestone ). Beta2 is our first release of the Web2.0-like 'tag' system developed in collaboration with Usable Image. This version addresses issues with using our tools under Java 1.6

OMERO Beta 1.1 — released Mar 07

Patch release to fix time-out issues.

OMERO Beta 1 — released Jan 07

The first public OMERO release, providing simple data management. Limited file format support (DV, STK, TIFF). Simple data visualization and management. Full details are here.

Milestone M3 — released Nov 06

Rendering and compression API and client-side import. Access control and permissions system. Importer based on Bio-Formats. Full details are here.

Milestone M2 — released Jul 06

The stateful rendering service is functional and all rendering code moved from Shoola Java Client to the server. Also, the stateless services (IQuery,IUpdate,IPojos) are frozen and testing and documentation is checked and solidified. Full details are here.

Milestone M1 — released Apr 06

Contains minimal functionality needed to run Shoola Java Client without Perl server to demonstrate acceleration of metadata access. Application deployed on JBoss. No ACLs or permissions.