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.