Version 1.4.1

Features

• Multiple frames can be composited together with the style option (#554, #556)

Improvements

• Warn when opening an inefficient tiff file (#555)

Version 1.4.0

Changes

• The image conversion task has been split into two packages, large_image_converter and large_image_tasks. The tasks module is used with Girder and Girder Worker for converting images and depends on the converter package. The converter package can be used as a stand-alone command line tool (#518)

Features

• Added a canRead method to the core module (#512)
• Image conversion supports JPEG 2000 (jp2k) compression (#522)
• Image conversion can now convert images readable by large_image sources but not by vips (#529)
• Added an open method to the core module as an alias to getTileSource (#550)
• Added an open method to each file source module (#550)
• Numerous improvement to image converversion (#533, #535, #537, #541, #544, #545, #546, #549)

Improvements

• Better release bioformats resources (#502)
• Better handling of tiff files with JPEG compression and RGB colorspace (#503)
• The openjpeg tile source can decode with parallelism (#511)
• Geospatial tile sources are preferred for geospatial files (#512)
• Support decoding JP2k compressed tiles in the tiff tile source (#514)
• Hardened tests against transient timing issues (#532, #536)

Bug Fixes

• Harden updates of the item view after making a large image (#508, #515)
• Tiles in an unexpected color mode weren't consistently adjusted (#510)
• Harden trying to add an annotation before the viewer is ready (#547)
• Correctly report the tile size after resampling in the tileIterator (#538)

Version 1.3.2

Improvements

• Reduce caching associated images when the parent item changes (#491)
• Test with Python 3.9 (#493)
• Add a hideAnnotation function in the client (#490)
• Expose more resample options for region and histogram endpoints (#496)
• Improve OME tiff preferred level calculation for OME tiffs with subifds (#496)

Changes

• Include the annotationType to the annotation conversion method in the client (#490)

Notes

• This will be the last version to support Python 2.7 and 3.5.

Version 1.3.1

Improvements

• Include ETag support in some Girder rest requests to reduce data transfer (#488)

Changes

• Don't let bioformats handle pngs (#487)

Version 1.3.0

Features

• Added bioformats tile source (#463)
• Handle OME Tiff files with sub-ifd images (#469)

Improvements

• Expose more internal metadata (#479)
• Improve how Philips XML internal metadata is reported (#475)
• Show aperio version in internal metadata (#474)
• Add css classes to metadata on the item page (#472)
• The Girder web client exports the ItemViewWidget (#483)
• Read more associated images in openslide formats (#486)

Bug Fixes

• Add a reference to updated time to avoid overcaching associated images (#477)
• Fix a typo in the settings page (#473)

Version 1.2.0

Features

• Added endpoints to remove old annotations (#432)
• Show auxiliary images and metadata on Girder item pages (#457)

Improvements

• Migrate some database values on start to allow better annotation count reporting (#431)
• Speed up Girder item list annotation counts (#454)
• Read more OME Tiff files (#450)
• Handle subimages of different component depths (#449)
• When scaling, adjust reported mm_x/y (#441)

Changes

• Standardize metadata for tile sources with multiple frames (#433)
• Unify code to check if a tile exists (#462)
• Switch to ElementTree, as cElementTree is deprecate (#461)
• Refactor how frame information is added to metadata (#460)
• Upgrade GeoJS to the latest version (#451)

Bug Fixes

• Fix a threading issue with multiple styled tiles (#444)
• Guard against reading tiff tiles outside of the image (#458)
• Guard against a missing annotation value (#456(
• Fix handling Girder filenames with multiple periods in a row (#459)
• Work around a file descriptor issue in cheroot (#465)

Version 1.1.0

Features

• Added nd2 tile source (#419)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where, if users or groups were deleted outside of normal methods, checking an annotation's access would delete its elements (#428)
• Fix an issue where retiling some tile sources could fail (#427)

Improvements

• Testing fully with Python 3.8 (#429)

Version 1.0.4

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where retiling some tile sources could fail (#427)

Version 1.0.3

Features

• Added gdal tile source (#418)
• Added a GET large_image/sources endpoint to list versions of all installed sources (#421)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where changing the annotation history setting when Girder's settings' cache was enable wouldn't take effect until after a restart (#422)
• Fixed an issue when used as a Girder plugin and served with a proxy with a prefix path (#423)

Improvements

• Better handling of imported file formats with adjacent files (#424)

Version 1.0.2

Features

• Add style options for all tile sources to remap channels and colors (#397)
• Better support for high bit-depth images (#397)

Improvements

• Make it easier to load the annotation-enable web viewers (#402)
• Improved support for z-loops in OMETiff files (#397)