Documentation

OMERO Plus releases

The table below lists released OMERO.server versions and their release date. See all historical release notes on our blog.

The latest release of OMERO Plus is OMERO.server 5.6.14-223, and release notes can be found here. Find further documentation of OMERO Plus here

The latest release of Bio-Formats is 8.0.1-761, and release notes can be found here. Find further documentation of Bio-Formats here

The latest release of PathViewer is 3.12.0, and release notes can be found here. Find further documentation of PathViewer here

Linux distributions and their end of Glencoe Software Upgrade Support

The table below summarizes the major Linux distributions under which OMERO Plus is typically installed as well as the vendor-specified end of life for each. Glencoe Software has specified a date after which our support for upgrading or installing OMERO Plus in these environments will end. OMERO Plus installations, migrations and upgrades are no longer covered by the annual SMA following the Glencoe End of Support date. Glencoe Software does not recommend installing OMERO Plus on an OS within 12 months of the vendor end of life.

ZeroC Ice

What is ZeroC Ice?

ZeroC Ice is an open-source software used by OMERO for communicating between the client and the server. It needs to be available as a dependency both on the client and server environments. Thus its ease of installation is critical for developers who want to work against their data in OMERO as well as system administrators who want to deploy OMERO.

Client installation

Java clients can simply depend on the zeroc-ice JAR files available through the Central Repository. Python clients need to install the ZeroC Ice extension for Python. Since Ice 3.6.0, this extension is available through the PyPI repository both as a source distribution and as wheel packages. The 3.6.5 wheel packages are only available for a subset of platforms and end-of-life Python versions. In most scenarios, installing the Ice Python bindings requires building from source, which can take up to several tens of minutes and will often require additional patches to work with recent Python or OpenSSL versions.

To ease OMERO.py deployment, we have pre-built Ice package wheels. The table below summarizes the wheels available for Linux and OS X:

Server installation

In addition to the Ice Python extension described above, deploying an OMERO.server requires binaries including the IceGrid administration tool. We also compiled a set of pre-built binaries under the major operating systems supported by OMERO Plus: