HRM 3.2.0

HRM 3.2.0 comes with several new features and plenty of fixes and tweaks.

The major new functionalities in HRM 3.2.0 are:

A new template sharing mechanism

This allows user to share image, restoration and analysis templates with each other, thus adding a social twist to the HRM ;-) It also shares PSF files associated with the templates.

A vastly extended integration of the HRM with OMERO

The HRM can now interface with a remote OMERO installation at higher performance than in HRM 3.1. For more information about the new OMERO connector, please see our poster at the OME Meeting 2014: http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/presentations/2014/Paris-Posters/Poster-10-Ehrenfeuchter-HRM.pdf.

A (conservative) autocropping option

Autocropping optimizes deconvolution time and memory load for large datasets that present extensive backround regions at the borders that do not carry valuable information.

Migrated documentation

We migrated the installation documentation to readthedocs.org (http://huygens-remote-manager.readthedocs.org/en/latest/). The user manual will also be posted on readthedocs.org soon.

Standardized setup

Please review your HRM installation!

We are trying to consolidate and standardize the way the HRM is meant to be installed and configured as a requirement for major future HRM features. Specifically, the system users running the Queue Manager and the web server are expected to have direct read-write access to the data folders. This basically means that both running the Queue Manager as root and Method 2a on http://huygens-rm.org/home/?q=node/18 will stop working.

In method 2a, the web server user is granted rights to run specific commands (/bin/mkdir, /bin/chown, /bin/chmod, /bin/rm ) via /etc/sudoers. From HRM 3.2.0 on, the Queue Manager and the web server users are expected to be allowed to run those commands directly without sudo rights.

Please notice that HRM 3.2.0 defaults to the new behavior; if you need more time to migrate, you can temporarily force the old behavior by adding the line:

$change_ownership = true;

to the config/hrm_server_config.inc and config/hrm_client_config.inc configuration file (see config/samples/hrm_server_config.inc for more info). Please mind that this behavior is obsolete and will be removed in HRM 3.3.0.

A complete list of new features can be found on http://huygens-rm.org/home/?q=node/27

Requirements

Please notice that HRM 3.2.0 requires the freshly released Huygens Core version 14.6.1-p7 (or newer): please go ahead and download it from http://www.svi.nl/download. It also requires a database upgrade: please login as the administrator after you have updated the HRM code and you will be led directly to the "Database update" page.

Have fun!