tags: Tuesday —

2026-02-10

Attending: Will, Petr, Frances, Khaled, Andreas, Seb, Melissa, Kyle, Tiago, Joel, Johannes, Kevin, Chris,

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

(2-3 minutes each)

IDR (Frances)
- Migration of IDR to UoD
- BioFile Finder searchengine PR merged, to be deployed on idr-next next week
OMERO
- Andreas: OMERO.web 5.31.0 - all PRs merged, maybe 1 remaining.
- Seb: OMERO.server 5.6.17
  - OMERO.py 5.22.0 released yesterday
  - See release notes, waiting for OMERO.web 5.31.0
  - Combined announcement on OME website/image.sc?
- OMERO.insight
  - Discussion to be scheduled on the build/packaging/release workflow
  - Still need to fix packaging workflow - To be discussed with JM & Dom. Plan to release with updated Bio-Formats following server & web release
- Java support proposal
  - relevant for OMERO & Bio-Formats ecosystem
  - announcement
  - adding/dropping support for Java versions - see doc above
Bio-Formats (Melissa)
- 8.5.0 release progress. Date to be decided in coming weeks
NGFF (Johannes)
- Merge RFC5 into ngff-spec soon
- ngff PR to handle split of spec into ngff-spec
GerBI (Tiago/Johannes)
- Daniella looking to use Link-ML. Likely we’ll see more of this
BioVision Centre
- small bug-fixes ongoing
- TODO: add BVC to notes template
Glencoe
- Erin at SLAS this week
Community

(5 min. max; tech. Discussion should be highlighted to relevant people and rescheduled)

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)