Milestone OMERO-4.4.7

The OMERO-4.4 line is dedicated to providing and supporting a stable, defined line of OMERO development, where several improvements can be delivered to the community alongside a stable API. In other words, the OMERO 4.4.x API will be retained and supported, as these updates are made, which will guarantee that external software that uses OMERO should not break. API additions may be made, but no API-breaking changes will occur. As appropriate, probably at intervals of ~3 months, we will release point releases (e.g., OMERO-4.4.5, -4.4.6, etc.) that combine completed functional improvements and bug fixes.

The major focus of work for the next release, OMERO-4.4.7, involves improvements in:

• Permissions--
  • allow a user to import data and assign to another user
  • View Data per Group or Data per User
• Data sharing and publication--
  • examples and improvements in the workflow for making images publicly available
• Alignment of OMERO clients--
  • improve UX of functionality between OMERO.insight and OMERO.web
• Big Image--
  • improve reading and visualization of “big” images.
• OMERO.matlab--
  • refactor and add utility functions to the toolbox.