The OME team is pleased to announce the release of Bio-Formats 8.4.0
Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 8.4.0 which includes a new file format as well as several fixes and improvements.
The full list of changes included in this release are as follows:
New file formats:
File format fixes:
iso-8859-1 encoding instead of UTF-8uint8 from being set incorrectlyOriginalMetadataAnnotation parsing to allow escaped charactersBio-Formats improvements:
-pyramid-scale is used without -pyramid-resolutions-pyramid-resolutions from producing resolutions with invalid dimensions-channel, -z, and/or -t)bfGetPlane when using OctaveFakeReader
labelPlanes attribute to include human-readable plane indexes in each imageInstrument to every ImageChannelMerger and ChannelSeparatorComponent updates:
logback was upgraded to 1.3.16ome-common was upgraded to 6.1.2ome-codecs was upgraded to 1.1.2ome-metakit was upgraded to 5.3.10ome-model was upgraded to 6.5.1ome-poi was upgraded to 5.3.11— January 15, 2026