<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Hi everyone,</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">The ImageJDev team has released the sixth beta of ImageJ2, version <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="">2.0</span></span>.<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="">0</span></span>-<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="">beta6</span></span>.</font></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">ImageJ <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="">2.0</span></span>.<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="">0</span></span>-<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="">beta6</span></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 style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="">2.0</span></span>.<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="">0</span></span> release. It is recommended that people continue to use ImageJ v1.x for critical work.</font></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><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="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Development of this release of ImageJ focused on improved legacy support. In particular, ImageJ2 now allows you to switch to a dedicated "legacy mode" for maximum compatibility with ImageJ1.</font></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><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" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </font><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent"></span><a href="http://developer.imagej.net/2012/12/27/imagej-v200-beta6">http://developer.imagej.net/2012/12/27/imagej-v200-beta6</a></font></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">You can download the release from:</font></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><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 style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">To more accurately reflect what is left to do, we have again reestimated ImageJ2's release dates, and scheduled additional betas before the final <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">2.0</span>.<span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">0 </span>release. See the Downloads page for the updated</font> table of planned future releases and roadmap links for the project. The focus of the next release (<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="">2.0</span></span>.<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="">0</span></span><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">-beta7) is on robust core support for N-dimensional data, including very large image data, and data/display decoupling.</font></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">For more details on the ImageJ developments, see the web site at:</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"> <a href="http://developer.imagej.net/" target="_blank">http://developer.imagej.net/</a></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Lastly, please note most of the ImageJ development team will be away for the next 1-2 weeks, back in early January. So we may be a bit slow responding to mails until then.</font></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Regards and happy holidays,</font></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Curtis Rueden</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">ImageJDev project lead</font></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">University of Wisconsin-Madison</font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div></div>