Release of OMERO.server 5.6.16

The OME team is pleased to announce the release of OMERO.server 5.6.16

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The main focus of this release is the update of the dependencies of OMERO.server. This includes the removal of unused dependencies as well as the upgrade of several libraries where the current version is associated with public vulnerabilities. It also includes a server fix when reading omero.policy.binary_access stored as a group configuration. The version of Bio-Formats bundled with the OMERO.server binary is bumped to 8.2.0 and will invalidate previous Bio-Formats Memoizer cache files. Please refer to the upgrade guide for further information. Finally, together with OMERO.py 5.21.0 and OMERO.web 5.29.1, this OMERO.server release adds NumPy 2.3 support.

The following OMERO.server dependencies have been upgraded:

The following OMERO.server dependencies have been removed:

Installing the Software:

For full details of the changes included in the OMERO 5.6 series see the OMERO 5.6.0 release announcement.

This release has been tested with OMERO.py 5.21.0 and OMERO.web 5.29.1. We recommend that you upgrade OMERO.py and OMERO.web accordingly on your deployments.

Official Docker images are available as usual on Docker Hub with either the latest or the 5.6 tag. Both Docker images have been upgraded to Rocky Linux 9:

You are invited to discuss this announcement on the image.sc forum.

All the best with your upgrades,

The OME Team

— June 26, 2025

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