Release of Bio-Formats 5.7.1

Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 5.7.1 which includes the following changes:

File format fixes and improvements:

• Nikon NIS-Elements ND2
  • improved parsing of Z position values
• LaVision Imspector
  • corrected the value of time per FLIM channel
  • fixed a bug which saw the Z and T dimensions swapped
  • fixed a divide by zero exception
  • added a fix for incorrect time-base and number of channels
• TIFF
  • added support for handling files with a FillOrder of 2 in which the bits in each byte are reversed
  • improved support for multi-channel ImageJ TIFF files greater than 4GB in size

Performance improvements:

• improved TIFF performance by using non-regexp String replacement (thanks to Thushara Wijeratna)
• improved TIFF handling of Strings for large metadata (thanks to T. Alexander Popiel)

Documentation improvements:

• updated documentation to reference support for ImageJ TIFFs
• added links to format options page to user and developer index pages

Full details can be found at Bio-Formats version history.

The software is available at archived downloads and will shortly be available from the Java-8 update site for Fiji users.

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