What’s new for OMERO 5.2 for sysadmins
- OMERO clients are no longer distributed as Java Web Start applications. This
decision is discussed at length in our Java Web Start blog post.
We recognize that this will be problematic for some institutional users and
are working to expand the functionality of OMERO.web to mitigate this as far
as possible.
- The Version requirements section provides extensive
details about which operating systems and dependency versions we intend to
support for the life of 5.2 and the likely changes to these for the next
major release (currently planned to be 5.3). Most notably, we have dropped
support for Java 1.6 and changed the Python dependencies.
- The OMERO.web framework no longer bundles a copy of the Django package,
instead manual installation of the Django dependency is required. It is
highly recommended to use Django 1.8 (LTS) which requires Python 2.7.
For more information see Python on the
Version requirements page.
- FastCGI support was removed in OMERO 5.2 and OMERO.web can be deployed
using WSGI Deployment (Unix/Linux).
- The configuration property omero.graphs.wrap which allowed
switching back to the old server code for moving and deleting data has now
been removed. You must migrate to using the new request operations.
- Add support for Ice 3.6. With Ice 3.6, the Python bindings are provided separately.
This allows to install the RPM packages provided by ZeroC.
Then run pip install zeroc-ice to install the Ice Python bindings if
your package manager does not provide the Ice python packages.