Release of Bio-Formats C++ 5.1.6

Today we have released the binary builds of Bio-Formats C++ 5.1.6, together with the ome-cmake-superbuild package used for building Bio-Formats C++ and its dependencies on Windows and other platforms.

See archived downloads for links to the source releases, documentation and API reference, and binary builds for a number of platforms.

Bio-Formats C++ changes include:

• Dropped superbuild option (not needed now it is a separate release)
• Added support for path introspection on Windows (used to determine the location of the schema files); this now matches the behaviour for all other platforms
• Disabled bounds checks in the PixelBuffer multi-dimensional array code for Debug builds for performance reasons (it is always disabled for Release builds)
• Updated doxygen documentation links (N.B. will come into effect next week when Bio-Formats 5.1.7 is released)
• Source releases are now xz compressed

Superbuild changes include:

• Added support for caching builds of prerequisites for future rebuilds (build-cache and python-cache options); this saves time if doing many builds with the same prerequisites.
• Component changes:
  • Bioformats: Updated to 5.1.6 (uses boost-1.59)
  • boost-1.58: Removed (no longer used)
  • png: Updated to 1.6.19

The software release is available at archived downloads.

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