Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 5.1.9, a point release focusing on bug fixing:
Java bug fixes, including:
- SDT
- fixed width padding calculation for single-pixel image
- Deltavision
- fixed the parsing of the new date format
- added support for parsing and storing the working distance in native units
- Micromanager
- cleaned up JSON metadata parsing
- Olympus Fluoview
- fixed null pointer exceptions while parsing metadata
- Leica LIF
- fixed large multi-tiled files from having incorrect plane offsets after the 2GB mark
- EM formats (MRC and Spider)
- added native length support for EM readers
- Gatan
- fixed erroneous metadata parsing
- added support for parsing and storing the physical sizes in native units
- OME-TIFF
- improved handling of OME-TIFF multi-file fileset’s with partial metadata blocks
- Nikon ND2
- fixed the parsing of emission wavelength
- Olympus CellR (APL)
- fixed multiple parsing issues with the mtb file
- SlideBook6
- removed slidebook dlls from Bio-Formats repository*
- Zeiss CZI
- fixed parsing of files with multiple mosaics and positions
Documentation updates, including:
- improved documentation for the export of BigTIFFs in ImageJ
C++:
- no changes.
*This is a breaking change for the Slidebook6Reader - users should visit http://www.openmicroscopy.org/info/slidebook for further information as the native binary files required for this reader are now hosted on an update site which you will need to enable for the reader to work once you have upgraded.
The software is available at:
http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/5.1.9
Any problems or comments, please use the OME Forums or mailing lists:
http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/community
Regards,
The OME Team