***** To join or leave the confocal microscopy listserv or to change your email address, go to: https://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=confocalmicroscopy&A=1 Post images on http://www.imgur.com and include the link in your posting. ***** Dear all, Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 7.3.0 which includes compatibility and support for Bio-Formats with Java-21 alongside a number of format improvements including updates for DICOM, CellSens VSI, and PerkinElmer Columbus. The full list of changes included in this release are as follows: File format fixes and improvements: * CellSens VSI - fixed and exception in CellSens 4.1 data by updating the handling of orphaned ets files (thanks to Edward Scanlon) * DICOM - updated handling of nested sequences that include pixel data - removed a duplicate enum check in the DICOM writer * OME-XML - reading an OME-XML file now populates the original metadata table * PerkinElmer Columbus - added support for reading data with Z stacks (thanks to Tim Blackmore) * Prairie Technologies TIFF - improved type checking for Prairie files * SimplePCI - fixed handling of Z position metadata Bio-Formats improvements: * Bio-Formats is now compatible with Java 21 builds * added a new `quality` option to bfconvert which enables the setting of the compression quality to be used. * when using the `channel` option in bfconvert, the unselected channels are now correctly removed from the OME-XML metadata * added coverage of Apple M1 as part of the CI process * added coverage of Java 21 builds as part of the CI process Component updates: * ome-jai was upgraded to 0.1.4 * ome-stubs was upgraded to 6.0.2 * ome-mdbtools was upgraded to 5.3.3 * ome-common was upgraded to 6.0.22 * ome-poi was upgraded to 5.3.9 * ome-metakit was upgraded to 5.3.7 * ome-codecs was upgraded to 1.0.3 * ome-xml was upgraded to 6.3.6 * specification was upgraded to 6.3.6 Documentation improvements: * fixed a number of broken external links * documented the new quality option in bfconvert Full details can be found at https://docs.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/7.3.0/about/whats-new.html The software is available at: https://www.openmicroscopy.org/bio-formats/downloads/ and is now available from the Java-8 update site for Fiji users. Any problems or comments, please use the Image.sc forum Regards, The OME Team The University of Dundee is a registered Scottish Charity, No: SC015096