Release of OMERO & Bio-Formats 5.1.1

[hflynn]

Dear All,

Today we are releasing OMERO and Bio-Formats 5.1.1. This is a point release that contains bug-fixes, but also adds several new features to Bio-Formats and OMERO.

Bio-Formats
Bio-Formats 5.1.1 adds TIFF writing support to the native C++ implementation and substantially improves our support for Windows by fixing the remaining functional differences between Windows and Mac/Linux.

Other updates include:

• improved performance of ImageJ plugin when working with ROIs
  
• TIFF export - switch to BigTIFF if .tf2, .tf8, or .btf extensions are used
  
• fixed upgrade checking to more accurately report when a new version is available
  
• Many bug fixes for formats including:
  • Zeiss CZI - fixed ordering of multiposition data and improved support for RGB and fused images
    
  • Nikon ND2 - improved ordering of multiposition data
    
  • Leica LIF - improved metadata validity checks and excitation wavelength detection
    
  • Metamorph STK/TIFF - record lens numerical aperture and fixed millisecond values in timestamps
    
  • Gatan DM3 - correctly detect signed pixel data
    
  • Imaris HDF - fix channel count detection
    
  • ICS export - fix writing of files larger than 2GB

Full details can be found at http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/supp ... s-new.html

The software is available at:
http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/5.1.1
and the C++ implementation is available from:
http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/bio ... cpp/5.1.1/

OMERO
OMERO 5.1.1 focuses on user-facing issues and cleaning resources for developers. Improvements include:

For OMERO.web:

• significant review of the web share functionality
  
• correction of thumbnail refreshing
  
• fixes to the user administration panel
  
• fix for embedding of the Javascript image viewer

For OMERO.insight:

• improved open actions
  
• tidying of the menu structure
  
• correction of the mouse zoom behavior
  
• fix for the Drag-n-Drop functionality

Other updates include:

• overhaul of the CLI session log-in logic
  
• cleaning and testing of all code examples
  
• further removal of the use of deprecated methods

The software is available at:
http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/omero/5.1.1

Upgrade information is at http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/supp ... grade.html.


Any problems or comments, please use the OME Forums or mailing lists:

http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/community

Regards,

The OME Team