<div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Hi everyone,</font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Today the ImageJDev team is releasing the fourth beta of ImageJ2, version 2.0.0-beta4.</font></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">ImageJ 2.0.0-beta4 is a "beta"-quality release, meaning the code is not finished. The design is more stable than before but still subject to change until the final 2.0.0 release. It is recommended that people continue to use ImageJ v1.x for critical work.</font></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">The ImageJ2 user interface is modeled after ImageJ v1.x as much as possible. However, under the hood, ImageJ2 is a complete redesign of ImageJ. It provides backward compatibility with older versions of ImageJ by bundling the latest v1.x code and translating between "legacy" and "modern" image structures.</font></div>
<div><br></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Development of this release of ImageJ focused heavily on the plugin architecture and various plugin implementations. There were also numerous architecture changes to make ImageJ more flexible, powerful, and backwards compatible. To accommodate this, changes were made to the plugin class hierarchy, the user interface classes, the legacy layer, the updater, the launcher, and in many other areas. There were also some improvements at the application level—all in all, over 100 bugfixes and improvements.</font></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">For further details on this release, including a discussion of new features, please see our blog post:</font></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"> <a href="http://developer.imagej.net/2012/09/11/imagej-v200-beta4" target="_blank">http://developer.imagej.net/2012/09/11/imagej-v200-beta4</a></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">You can download the release from:</font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"> <a href="http://developer.imagej.net/downloads" target="_blank">http://developer.imagej.net/downloads</a></font></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Please note that due to bugs in the Updater (which have since been fixed), it is unfortunately not possible to update from a beta3 installation. Please download the 2.0.0-beta4 distribution bundle instead.</span></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">The Downloads page also has a table of planned future releases and roadmap links for the project. The focus of the next release (2.0.0-beta5) is on better data visualization and processing.</font></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">For more details on the ImageJ developments, see the web site at:</font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"> <a href="http://developer.imagej.net/" target="_blank">http://developer.imagej.net/</a></font></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Regards,</font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Curtis Rueden</font></div>
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<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">ImageJDev project lead</font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation</font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">University of Wisconsin-Madison</font></div>
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