Release of Bio-Formats 6.3.1

Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 6.3.1 which includes the following changes:

File format fixes and improvements:

• ICS (Image Cytometry Standard)
  • prevented a potential error when writing ICS files with physical units which could not be converted
• Imspector OBF
  • fixed a bug with incorrect dimensions being parsed for some Imspector OBF files
• Leica LAS AF LIF (Leica Image File Format)
  • fixed a NullPointerException in some variants of the LIF file format
• TIFF
  • improved the performance of tiled writing
• Zeiss CZI
  • fixed issues with tile stitching and position size

Bio-Formats tools improvements:

• fixed a potential NullPointerException in SpringUtilities for Bio-Formats plugins (thanks to July Chen)
• updated URL for fetching ImageJ upgrades in ijview
• fixed the XY coordinates for cropped images in bfconvert
• fixed a bug when using a cropped multi-series file in bfconvert (thanks to Matthieu Moisse)
• fixed issues in bfconvert when writing separate tiles with additional options
• added documentation of tile output patterns to utility help in bfconvert

Full details can be found at Bio-Formats version history.

The software is available at archived downloads and will shortly be available from the Java-8 update site for Fiji users.

Any problems or comments, please use the image.sc forum.