Release of Bio-Formats 6.3.0

Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 6.3.0 which included the following changes:

File format fixes and improvements:

• Big Data Viewer
  • added support for parsing of physical sizes
• DeltaVision
  • added a new RCPNL reader which is a variant and split out of the DeltaVision format
• Hamamatsu NDPI
  • fixed population of the nominal magnification from the SourceLens TIFF tag
• ICS (Image Cytometry Standard)
  • fixed a bug when using tiles to read files from SVI-Huygens
• Imspector OBF
  • fixed an IndexOutOfBoundsException exception when using DummyMetadata (thanks to Nils Gladitz)
• JPEG 2000
  • added support for sub-resolutions
• Leica LIF
  • updated to parse attachments to determine if XY positions should be flipped or swapped
• MetaMorph
  • improved file name construction and plate detection logic
• Nikon ND2
  • updated to use floating point for 32 bit values
• OME-TIFF
  • reduced memory usage when reading files and memo file size for cached files
• PerkinElmer Operetta
  • improved handling of empty fields to prevent series from having X or Y set to 0

API updates:

• added overwriteIFDValue signature that takes an IFD offset to TiffSaver
• added a new getRequiredDirectories method to FormatTools
• new FakeReader keys added for sleepOpenBytes and sleepInitFile

Build updates:

• updated deployment mechanism for SNAPSHOT and Release to use Travis CI
• increased the strictness of AcquisitionDate checks in FormatReaderTest
• improved test coverage of companion file datasets

Component updates:

• ome-common was upgraded to 6.0.4
• updated DateTools to attempt to parse invalid dates with Locale.US
• DateTools documentation updated to clarify expected units for timestamp passed to convertDate

Documentation improvements:

• added documentation for sleep options when generating test images
• fixed broken external links in documentation
• corrected suffixes used for JPEG 2000

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.

Any problems or comments, please use the image.sc forum.