<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi everyone,</div><div><br></div><div>The ImageJDev team has released the seventh beta of ImageJ2, version 2.0.0-</div><div>beta-7. This release achieves two key longstanding goals of the project: unifying image I/O and better support for very large image data.</div>
<div><br></div><div>ImageJ 2.0.0-beta-7 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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Development of this release of ImageJ focused on better support for N-dimensional data, particularly large datasets. This release adds support for "cell images" which are similar to, but more powerful than, the "virtual stacks" of ImageJ 1.x. There has also been a further strengthening and stabilization of the ImageJ2 architecture, with the new plugin system generalized into a SciJava Common library used by both ImageJ2 and SCIFIO.<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>For further details on this release, including a discussion of new features, please see our blog post:</div><div> <a href="http://developer.imagej.net/2013/06/12/imagej-v200-beta-7">http://developer.imagej.net/2013/06/12/imagej-v200-beta-7</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>You can download the release from:</div><div> <a href="http://developer.imagej.net/downloads">http://developer.imagej.net/downloads</a></div><div><br></div><div>See the Downloads page for the updated table of planned future releases and roadmap links for the project. The focus of the next release (2.0.0-beta-8) is on better multidimensional image analysis and processing routines, such as computation of measurements and statistics from ROIs.</div>
<div><br></div><div>For more details on the ImageJ developments, see the web site at:</div><div> <a href="http://developer.imagej.net/">http://developer.imagej.net/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,<br></div><div>Curtis Rueden</div>
<div>ImageJDev project lead</div><div>Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation</div><div>University of Wisconsin-Madison</div><div><br></div></div>