<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Hi everyone,</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">The ImageJDev team has released the fifth beta of ImageJ2, version <span class="il" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">2.0</span>.<span class="il" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">0</span>-<span class="il" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">beta5</span>.</font></div>
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<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">ImageJ <span class="il" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">2.0</span>.<span class="il" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">0</span>-<span class="il" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">beta5</span> 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 <span class="il" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">2.0</span>.<span class="il" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">0</span> release. It is recommended that people continue to use ImageJ v1.x for critical work.</font></div>
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<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 style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Development of this release of ImageJ focused on the addition of scripting support. The release was timed to coincide with the ImageJ conference in Luxembourg, to ensure participants have access to a recent, stable codebase. Since the development cycle for this beta was shorter than many of our previous cycles, there are fewer new major features. But we have made substantial progress on some big ticket items (such as multi-step undo and redo) that will be part of the next beta release.</font></div>
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<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 style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </font><span style="background-color:transparent"><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://developer.imagej.net/2012/10/19/imagej-v200-beta5">http://developer.imagej.net/2012/10/19/imagej-v200-beta5</a></font></span></div>
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<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">You can download the release from:</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"> <a href="http://developer.imagej.net/downloads">http://developer.imagej.net/downloads</a></font></div>
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<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">To more accurately reflect what is left to do, we have recently reestimated ImageJ2's release dates, and scheduled additional betas before the final 2.0.0 release. See the Downloads page for the updated</font><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> table of planned future releases and roadmap links for the project. The focus of the next release (</span><span class="il" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">2.0</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">.</span><span class="il" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">0</span><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">-beta6) is on robust core support for N-dimensional data, including very large image data, and data/display decoupling.</font></div>
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For more details on the ImageJ developments, see the web site at:</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"> <a href="http://developer.imagej.net/">http://developer.imagej.net/</a></font></div>
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<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Regards,</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Curtis Rueden</font></div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">ImageJDev project lead</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">University of Wisconsin-Madison</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br>
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