What’s new for OMERO 5.3 for sysadmins
- Ice 3.6 is now the default supported version. With Ice 3.6, the Python
bindings are provided separately, allowing you 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.
- Version requirements has been updated to reflect other changes in
version support for 5.3.0 and tentative plans for 5.4.0.
- All official OMERO.web apps can now be installed from PyPI. You should
reinstall your plugins when you upgrade.
- Windows support has been discontinued, see
Migration from OMERO 5.2 on Windows to OMERO 5.3 on Linux.
- OMERO.web has been decoupled from the server and can now be deployed
separately. It now requires Python 2.7 meaning systems still running on
CentOS 6 may require upgrading.
- Support for deploying OMERO.web using Apache has been dropped; if your
organization’s policies only allow Apache to be used as the external-facing
web-server you should configure Apache to proxy connections to an Nginx
instance running on your OMERO server i.e. use Apache as a reverse proxy.
- jQuery cache is now disabled by default.
- A new script is available to allow users to migrate annotations from Images
to Wells which you may wish to run server-side when upgrading. These
annotations will be reindexed automatically so your users can search Wells
by annotations in the new GUI for Screen Plate Well data.
- New options have been added for customizing the tree in the clients, see
client configuration properties.
- The default output when importing data via the CLI has been updated to
give an Image or Plate ID list in the form of Image:1,2,3,4 or
Plate:101 to be more usable by scripts etc. The previous behavior can
be restored by using --output legacy.