Release of Bio-Formats 6.10.0

Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 6.10.0 which includes the following changes:

New file formats:

• Slidebook 7
  • added support for reading SlideBook Format 7 from SlideBook 2021 This functionality was implemented and contributed by Intelligent Imaging Innovations

File format fixes and improvements:

• CellWorX / MetaXpress
  • channel metadata will now be preserved for all channels by reading from each file
• Cellomics
  • marked the private Pattern field as transient to fix memo file generation with JDK17
• DeltaVision
  • fixed detection of incorrect XY tile counts
• Hitachi S-4800
  • enhanced format recognition and identification of datasets
  • corrected the units for physical sizes to nanometers instead of micrometers
• Nikon NIS-Elements ND2
  • improved metadata parsing, especially for objective data, timestamps, and exposure times
• PerkinElmer Operetta
  • improved checks for invalid TIFFs and supplemental metadata files
  • updated image names to make well names more readable
• TIFF (Tagged Image File Format)
  • fixed incorrect SampleValue metadata values
• Vectra QPTIFF
  • reader has been updated to support schema version 4 Funded by a partnership between Glencoe Software and Akoya Biosciences.

Bio-Formats improvements:

• updated automated testing to ensure files are initialized before all tests

Documentation improvements:

• fixed broken link in MIPAV documentation
• updated logback component version in developer docs
• updated link to View5D software
• added a new format page for Slidebook 7

Component updates:

• ome-metakit was upgraded to 5.3.4
• ome-common was upgraded to 6.0.9
• ome-model was upgraded to 6.3.1
• ome-poi was upgraded to 5.3.6
• ome-codecs was upgraded to 0.3.2
• logback-core was upgraded to 1.2.9
• logback-classic was upgraded to 1.2.9
• xercesImpl was upgraded to 2.12.2
• xml-apis was upgraded to 1.4.01
• snakeyaml 1.29 was added as a dependency