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Re: Fiji's Bio-Formats will be updated to 5.0.0

Posted by Glen MacDonald-2 on Feb 27, 2014; 7:15pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Fiji-s-Bio-Formats-will-be-updated-to-5-0-0-tp5006701p5006702.html

Hi Curtis,
After Fiji is updated to use version 5, is the long term plan to have the Fiji updater default to the stable build or to daily builds?  

Thanks for the hard work,
Glen MacDonald
        Core for Communication Research
Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center
        Cellular Morphology Core
Center on Human Development and Disability
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University of Washington
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On Feb 27, 2014, at 9:40 AM, Curtis Rueden <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> The Fiji distribution of ImageJ ships the most recent stable release of
> Bio-Formats in order to provide support for over a hundred life sciences
> image file formats. Currently, Fiji ships with version 4.4.10 of
> Bio-Formats.
>
> If a newer version is needed (e.g., for a critical bug-fix or newly added
> file format), it is possible to update to the latest development version of
> 4.4.x, or the latest development version of 5.x, by enabling the
> "Bio-Formats 4" or "Bio-Formats 5" update sites, respectively. (
> http://fiji.sc/Bio-Formats#Daily_builds).
>
> Earlier this week, the OME team released version 5.0.0 of the Bio-Formats
> library. Within the next few days, I will update Fiji to use this new
> version of Bio-Formats.
>
> - The "Bio-Formats 4" update site will become obsolete. It will not be
> possible to "downgrade" back to a 4.4.x version of Bio-Formats after this
> point.
>
> - The "Bio-Formats 5" update site will become the sole Bio-Formats update
> site for following newer unstable development versions of Bio-Formats. (For
> those interested: it will track the "dev_5_0" branch for the time being.)
>
> Please let me know if you have any issues or concerns regarding this change.
>
> Regards,
> Curtis Rueden
> ImageJ Bio-Formats maintainer
> http://wiki.imagej.net/User:Rueden
>
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