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)