Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 5.1.8, a point release focusing on bug fixing:
Java bug fixes, including:
- FEI TIFF
- fixed stage position parsing and whitespace handling (thanks to Antoine Vandecreme)
- Pyramid TIFF
- fixed tile reading when a cache (.bfmemo) file is present
- MicroManager
- updated to parse JSON data from tags 50839 and 51123
- fixed to detect *_metadata.txt files in addition to metadata.txt files
- fixed to handle datasets with each stack in a single file
- OME-XML
- updated to make .ome.xml an official extension
- OME-TIFF
- fixed to ignore invalid BinaryOnly elements
- TIFF
- fixed caching of BigTIFF files
- Slidebook
- fixed handling of montages in Slidebook6Reader (thanks to Richard Myers)
- Performance improvement for writing files to disk (thanks to Stephane Dallongeville)
- Build system
- fixed Maven POMs to reduce calls to artifacts.openmicroscopy.org
- fixed bioformats_package.jar to include the loci.formats.tools package
Documentation updates, including:
- updated format pages to include links to example data
- clarified description of Qu for MATLAB (thanks to Carnë Draug)
- added installation instructions for Octave (thanks to Carnë Draug)
C++:
- Bugfixes to the OME-TIFF writer to correct use of the metadata store with multiple series
- Ensure file and writer state consistency upon close failure
The software is available at:
http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/5.1.8
The C++ superbuilds and platform builds will be released shortly.
Any problems or comments, please use the OME Forums or mailing lists:
http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/community
Regards,
The OME Team