[ImageJ-devel] ImageJ 2.0.0-beta5 released

[Curtis Rueden]

Hi everyone,

The ImageJDev team has released the fifth beta of ImageJ2, version 2.0.0-
beta5.

ImageJ 2.0.0-beta5 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.

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.

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.

For further details on this release, including a discussion of new
features, please see our blog post:
  http://developer.imagej.net/2012/10/19/imagej-v200-beta5

You can download the release from:
  http://developer.imagej.net/downloads

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 table of planned
future releases and roadmap links for the project. The focus of the next
release (2.0.0-beta6) is on robust core support for N-dimensional data,
including very large image data, and data/display decoupling.

For more details on the ImageJ developments, see the web site at:
  http://developer.imagej.net/

Regards,
Curtis Rueden
ImageJDev project lead
Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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