===== What's new in version 2.0.0? =====

PMA.core 2.0.0 is revision 1803 of the PMA.core codebase. It follows [[what_s_new_in_version_1.2.2|PMA.core 1.2.2]] (revision 915). It is a **major** revision, with many new features.

** Cloud storage support **

  * Support for the [[https://aws.amazon.com/s3/|S3]] protocol, most known from [[https://aws.amazon.com/|Amazon AWS]]. The protocol is supported by many other vendors, including [[https://www.ibm.com/cloud/object-storage|IBM]], Western Digital (HGST), and [[https://www.arvados.org|Arvados]], amongst others.
  * Support for [[https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/product-categories/storage/|Microsoft Azure]] storage
  * Databases can now be stored directly in [[https://aws.amazon.com/rds/|Amazon's RDS]], or [[https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/sql-database/|Microsoft Azure SQLServer]] resources. If so desired, customers no longer need to depend on on-server installation of Microsoft SQLServer.

** File format support ** [ [[supported_file_formats|see also page on file formats]] ]

  * Improved TIFF file handling
  * Added support for single component JPEG2000 streams and fluorescent SVS slides
  * Added support for Aperio AFI slides
  * Added support for Hamamatsu NDPIS slides
  * Prevent reading channel color in brightfield images
  * Improved Perkin Elmer QPTIFF slide handling
  * Added support for DICOM and TIFF export in render region
  * Added Olympus Webview format
  * Implement z-stacks for Leica SCN slides
  * Improved MRXS handling and rendering  (memory usage with respect to tile coordinates)
  * Improved BIF handling
  * Re-wrote CZI parsing logic (so not not be dependent on vendor binaries and be able to support the file format in a cloud context)
  * Added support for Unic Tech TMAP file format
  * Improved support for Huron TIFF slides
  * Added support for JPEGXR-encoded MRXS slides
  * Added support for Perkin Elmer QPTiff brightfield slides
  * Added support for Microsoft Deepzoom DZI file format (also used by [[https://openseadragon.github.io/|OpenSeaDragon]])
  * Added support for multi-file [[https://www.openmicroscopy.org/|OME]] TIFF slides
  * Added support for JPEG-XR (as a separate file format).
  * ImageInfo dictionaries are now enriched with vendor-specific meta-data
  * Improved support for Olympus VSI slides (z-stacking, fluo)
  * Added support for KFBio file format
  * Added support for Omnyx RTS file format
  * Added support for Philips iSyntax file format
  * Improved support for DICOM (YCbCr photometric interpretation and JPEG 2000 streams)
  * Improved support for NDPI (barcode clipping)

** Meta-data handling ** [ [[https://realdata.pathomation.com/how-to-handle-slide-meta-data/|see also blog article]] ]

  * Increased form label and name length 
  * Increased FormFieldValue length
  * Manage external connections and data sources (SQLServer / Oracle)
  * Form list value IDs are not zero-based (when set via the API)
  * Implemented PMANN (Pathomation Annotation) provisions for grouped annotation sets

** External annotation support **

  * PMA.core 2.0 supports MLD annotation files from Visiopharm, and ANNOTATION annotation files from Indica Labs (HALO).
  * PMA.core 2.0 supports embedded (native) annotations from a number of select hardware vendors, including Aperio (SVS) and 3DHistech (MRXS).
  * Export annotations to HALO Indicate Labs .ANNOTATION files
  * Export annotations to Visiopharm .MLD files
  * Export annotations to Aperio XML files
  * Convert native and 3rd party annotations to other formats

** Other features **

  * Fixed bug with regards to Elmah error handling
  * Software no longer depends on in-memory tile caching, which was buggy
  * Fixed bug in ACL overview
  * Fix in installation checks
  * Obtain a user's IP address when a session is accessed
  * Add "Any" option to password restriction config
  * Fixed references to use /admin instead of /api where needed, which leads to a more secure application
  * Add check for expired sessions in admin/SessionInfo
  * Conditionally reject users with duplicate email addresses; also check for email uniqueness during user update
  * Improved email report
  * Only search online root-directories; catch Amazon S3 exceptions and continue searching
  * Improved handling of non-existing root-directories
  * Error string fixed
  * Proper handling of empty cache
  * User interface improvements for image management pages
  * Improved cache control
  * License history is now available for troubleshooting and tracking
  * [[https://realdata.pathomation.com/fingerprinting-applications/|Fingerprinting]] can now be used to request annotations and forms (meta-data)
  * Added support for TLS 1.2
  * Updated barcode reading (OCR) library
  * LDAP improvements
  * Added built-in search capabilities to image management pages
  * Site-to-site slide transfer is now possible (works independently from [[https://www.pathomation.com|PMA.transfer]] )
  * Implemented channel clipping and (fluo) histogram functionality
  * Root-directories can now have a quota limit

** Developer support **

  * Improved [[https://swagger.io/|swagger]] documentation
  * Added PMA.UI slide visualization framework documentation
  * Add SessionInfo call to AdminService API
  * Enhancements with regards to tracing database security
  * Control root directory access through AdminService API
  * Suspend user accounts via API
  * ExportAnnotations() API call allows for automated annotation export and conversion
  * Improved API capabilities for form (meta-data) automation
  * Upload automation is possible as an alternative to [[https://www.pathomation.com/pma.transfer|PMA.transfer]]
  * Several API methods were re-implemented to now support multiple SlideRef arguments for improved performance

** See also **

[[release_history|PMA.core release history]]