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future: true
bf:
- version: 7.0.0
+ version: 7.0.1
omero:
version: 5.6.9
diff --git a/_posts/2023-10-16-bio-formats-7-0-1.md b/_posts/2023-10-16-bio-formats-7-0-1.md
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+---
+layout: post
+title: Release of Bio-Formats 7.0.1
+intro-blurb: The OME team is pleased to announce the release of Bio-Formats 7.0.1
+---
+
+Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 7.0.1 which includes a number of format improvements.
+
+The full list of changes included in this release are as follows:
+
+
+File format fixes and improvements:
+
+* Amersham Biosciences Gel
+ - improved format detection
+
+* Aperio SVS
+ - fixed a NullPointerException when attempting to read the magnification metadata
+ - physical sizes and positions are now calculated for full resolution label and macro images
+ - fixed a regression from Bio-Formats 6.8.0 which saw label and macro images incorrectly indexed
+
+* DICOM
+ - the DICOM writer will now throw an exception if the provided tiles don't match the
+ expected tile size
+
+* Gatan DM3
+ - fixed a StringIndexOutOfBoundsException when parsing acquisition mode
+
+* Hamamatsu NDPI
+ - corrected for potential integer overflow in stored restart marker tag
+
+* IVision
+ - improved the version and data type checks in isThisType
+
+* Leica LIF
+ - improved the exception handling if no images are found
+
+* Olympus OIR
+ - fixed issue with XML block reading that resulted in missing pixel blocks
+
+* OME-TIFF
+ - reader will now fail fast and throw a FormatException if an invalid file is found
+
+* TIFF
+ - a FormatException is now thrown for unsupported 64-bit int data
+ - for all TIFF based formats the IFD entry offset is now checked before seeking
+
+* TillVision
+ - improved metadata parsing and detection of .pst files
+
+* Ventana
+ - fixed tile arithmetic for smallest resolutions
+
+* Zeiss CZI
+ - unified channel color parsing so that retrieving lookup tables now allows RGB and ARGB colors
+
+Bio-Formats improvements:
+
+* URLHandle will fall back to resetting stream if resetting to a mark fails
+* an exception will now be thrown if the TurboJPEG library fails to load (thanks to Can Gokhan Dogan)
+* fixed a Bio-Formats plugin bug when attempting to export a file after reducing the range of channels
+* reviewed and updated a number of file headers
+* updated GitHub Actions from checkout v2 to v3
+
+Component updates:
+
+* `ome-common` was upgraded to 6.0.20
+
+Documentation improvements:
+
+* fixed a number of broken external links
+* updated the link to OME Model documentation
+* migrated readthedocs configuration to version 2
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