Release of Bio-Formats 5.1.4

Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 5.1.4. This is a point release focusing on bug-fixes.

Improvements include:

• Command line tools
  • fixed display of usage information
• Automated testing
  • fixed problems with symlinked data on Windows
  • added unit tests for checking physical pixel size creation
• Cellomics
  • fixed reading of sparse plates
• SlideBook
  • fixed a few lingering issues withe native library packaging
• SimplePCI/HCImage TIFF
  • fixed bit depth parsing for files from newer versions of HCImage
• SimplePCI/HCImage .cxd
  • fixed image dimensions to allow for extra padding bytes
• Leica LIF
  • improved reading of image descriptions
• ICS
  • fixed to use correct units for timestamps and physical pixel sizes
• MicroManager
  • fixed to use correct units for timestamps
• Gatan .dm3/.dm4
  • fixed problems with reading double-precision metadata values
• Hamamatsu NDPI
  • fixed reading of mask images
• Leica .lei
  • fixed reading of bit depth and endianness for datasets that were modified after acquisition
• FEI TIFF
  • updated to read metadata from files produced by FEI Titan systems
• QuickTime
  • fixed to handle planes with no stored pixels
• Leica .scn
  • fixed reading of files that contain fewer images than expected
• Zeiss .czi
  • fixed channel colors when an alpha value is not recorded
  • fixed handling of pre-stitched image tiles
• SDT
  • added support for Zip-compressed images
• Nikon .nd2
  • fixed to read image dimensions from new non-XML metadata
• OME-XML
  • fixed writing of integer metadata values

Documentation updates include:

• updated instructions for running automated data tests
• clarified JVM versions currently supported

Support for building the Native C++ implementation on Windows has also been completed and the pre-built packages will be released separately within the next few weeks.

Full details can be found in the Bio-Formats version history.

The software is available at archived downloads.

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