Dear All,
Further to the previous announcement[1], in preparation for the 4.4.9 and 5.0.0-beta2 releases of OMERO and Bio-Formats later this year, the code changes required to remove support for Java 5, and as a consequence for Matlab versions earlier than 2007b, have now been merged on both the dev_4_4 and develop branches. This means that if you are using daily stable or trunk builds of either OMERO or Bio-Formats rather than the current release versions, you need to be using Java 6 or 7 and Matlab 2007b or later as of now.
Users of systems such as RHEL5/CentOS5 which default to using Java 5 can download Java 7 packages from Oracle[2].
If you are using an older version of ImageJ, you can download an updated version which provides Java 6[3]. Note: it is vital you update your ImageJ if you want to upgrade the Bio-Formats Importer to make use of the latest format support[4].
[1]https://www.openmicroscopy.org/community/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=6322
[2]http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html
[3]http://imagej.nih.gov/ij/download.html
[4]http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/bio-formats/users/imagej/upgrading-importer.html
