Micro-Manager Version Archive
Micro-Manager 1.4
Micro-Manager 1.4.14
Windows 32-bit, 46 MB
Windows 64-bit, 45 MB
Mac OS X (Universal Binary), 49 MB
Micro-Manager 1.4.13 (November 30, 2012)
Windows 32-bit, 45 MB
Windows 64-bit, 45 MB
Mac OS X (Universal Binary), 48 MB
Micro-Manager 1.4.12 (November 17, 2012)
Windows 32-bit, 45 MB
Windows 64-bit, 45 MB
Mac OS X (Universal Binary), 48 MB
New in 1.4.12
- Bug fix:
- Micro-Manager exits properly now
- New device adapter:
- SutterMPC Multi-Manipulator controller (David Biggs)
Micro-Manager 1.4.11 (November 8, 2012)
Windows 32-bit, 45 MB
Windows 64-bit, 45 MB
Mac OS X (Universal Binary), 48 MB
New in 1.4.11
- New Features:
- Improved multicamera support
- Single-file, multi-image OME TIFF output format (Henry Pinkard)
- On-the-fly image processing plugin framework (TaggedImagePipeline)
- Major improvements to Hardware Configuration Wizard (Nenad Amodaj)
- Plugins:
- DLLAutoReloader plugin (automatically reloads device adapters)
- Projector plugin enhancement: support for Rapp UGA40 galvo device
- New device support:
- Andor Neo and Zyla cameras (AndorSDK3), David Gault, Norman Glasgow)
- LeicaDMSTC XY Stage (G. Esteban Fernandez)
- LumencorCIA (Louis Ashford)
- MoticMicroscope
- Rapp UGA40 Galvo frap device
- RaptorEPIX camera (David Biggs)
- TOFRA components (Ilya Ravkin)
- Zeiss AxioCam (Henry Pinkard)
Micro-Manager 1.4.10 (April 19, 2012)
Windows 32-bit, 40 MB
Windows 64-bit, 39 MB
Mac OS X (Universal Binary), 47 MB
New in 1.4.10
- Numerous bug fixes in image display and contrast panels
- Open Micro-Manager data sets either into memory (RAM) or as virtual stacks.
- New Device Adapters:
- Mightex_BLS
- Till iMic
- Till Polychrome V
- Improved HamamatsuHam adapter, supports the Flash4.0
Micro-Manager 1.4.9 (March 22, 2012)
Windows 32-bit, 40 MB
Windows 64-bit, 39 MB
Mac OS X (Universal Binary), 47 MB
New in 1.4.9
- Brought back missing Andor DLLs
- Fixed problem of starting MDA during live mode
- Upgraded java to latest version -- 1.6.0_31
Micro-Manager 1.4.8 (March 21, 2012)
Windows 32-bit, 40 MB
Windows 64-bit, 39 MB
Mac OS X (Universal Binary), 47 MB
New in 1.4.8
- Substantially improved display performance
- Improved support for color cameras and multiple cameras
- Improved contrast panels
- A large number of bug fixes
- A new Gaussian fitter plugin that lets you fit and track diffraction limited spots
- Support for a new (beta) device type: Galvos (for phototargeting; currently the Rapp UGA40).
- New devices, including:
- Aladdin pump (Kurt Thorn)
- Lumencor Spectra (Louis Ashford)
- Micropix Cameras (Ed Simmons)
- Mightex (Yihui Wu)
- Motic Cameras
- MP285 (Sutter Instruments, Mission Bay Imaging)
- NPointC400 (Mission Bay Imaging)
- Omicron (Jan-Erik Herche, Ralf Schlotter)
- VariLC (Rudolf Oldenbourg, MBL)
- Ximea Cameras (Marian Zajko)
Micro-Manager 1.4.7 (November 17, 2011)
Windows 32-bit, 39 MB
Windows 64-bit, 37 MB
Mac OS X (Universal Binary), 39 MB
New in 1.4.7
- Support for multiple cameras (see Utilities->Multi-camera adapter)
- Improved color camera live and snap
- Many bug fixes to multi-dimensional acquisition
- Added option to provide custom time intervals in MDA
- New/Improved device support:
- OpenCVGrabber (Ed Simmons)
- New PI GCS adapter (Stephen Rau)
- Improved Thorlabs DCxxxx (Olf Wohlmann)
- PCO adapter now supports new CMOS cameras (Franz Reitner)
- Support for nPoint stages (Mission Bay Imaging)
- XCite LED (Mission Bay Imaging)
- Thorlabs piezo stage (Nenad Amodaj)
- Updated ABS Camera (now also 64-bit, Heiko Baumann)
- ASI CRISP support, including plugin (Nico Stuurman)
Micro-Manager 1.4.6 (September 2, 2011)
Windows 32-bit, 17 MB
Windows 64-bit, 35 MB
Mac OS X (Universal Binary), 39 MB
New in 1.4.6
- Hardware triggering integrated with Multi-Dimensional Acquisition
- New device support:
- Scientifica stages (Mathew Player)
- Andor3 (supports new Neos camera)
- CARV II spinning disk confocal
- MCU28 (Zeiss CAN XY stage - Nenad Amodaj)
- Pluggable display API (ImageCacheListener)
- Split View Plugin restored to 1.4
- Clojure Editor Plugin
- Fixes to ZeissCAN29
- Changes in Hardware Configuration Wizard
Micro-Manager 1.4.5 (June 13, 2011)
Windows 32-bit, 17 MB
Windows 64-bit, 35 MB
Mac OS X (Universal Binary), 31 MB
Micro-Manager 1.4.4 BETA (April 7, 2011)
Windows 32-bit, 17 MB
Windows 64-bit, 34 MB
Mac OS X (Universal Binary), 31 MB
New in 1.4.4
- Thorlabs BD102 stage (Nenad Amodaj)
- Well plate plugin (Big.jar, Karl Bellve)
- New libusb drivers for K8055
- Script interface to add runnables in acquisition engine
- SimpleCam module with GPhoto support
- Enhanced Contrast Panels (ignore outliers)
- Saving and display on separate threads
- Leica AFC (Hardware Autofocus) (mostly working)
- Numerous bug fixes
Micro-Manager 1.4.2 BETA (March 2, 2011)
Windows 32-bit, 17 MB
Windows 64-bit, 34 MB
Mac OS X (Universal Binary), 31 MB
Micro-Manager 1.4.0 BETA (February 28, 2011)
- Windows 32-bit, 17 MB
- Windows 64-bit, 34 MB
- Mac OS X (Universal Binary), 31 MB
Micro-Manager 1.3
Micro-Manager 1.3.49 (June 13, 2011)
- 32 bit Windows XP, Windows 7, 14 MB
- Mac OS X (Universal Binary), 34 MB
- Debian/Ubuntu Linux
New in 1.3.49 (a minor update):
- Bug fixes in:
- The Imaging Source Camera
- Sutter DG4 filter wheel
- PCO Camera
- ABS Camera
- Thorlabs BBD102 xy stage
- Previous releases
Micro-Manager 1.3.48 (March 2, 2011)
- 32 bit Windows XP, Windows 7, 13 MB
- Mac OS X (Universal Binary), 34 MB
- Debian/Ubuntu Linux
- New devices:
- No Name Laser Combiner
- XCiteExacte Fluorescence Microscopy Illumination system - thanks to Mission Bay Imaging
- Meiji Techno EMZ focus stage - thanks to Koen De Vleeschauwer
- Tethered Camera adapter for Canon and Nikon cameras - thanks to Koen De Vleeschauwer
(uses DSLRRemote, NKRemote, or PSRemote libraries) - GigECamera - thanks to David Marshburn
- Coherent Sapphire Laser
- Device Adapter bug fixes and improvements
- Princeton Instruments camera
- correct handling of output ports
- Spot Camera
- unified code should be running on Windows and OS X
- Sutter Lambda
- some patches for various communication glitches on Lambda 10-2 and Lamdba SC
- DemoCamera and others
- cleanup of superfluous references to boost libraries.
- Andor Camera
- support for iXon features such as: count convert, optacquire, various filters
- support for isolated crop mode
- fix bug in binning
- SimpleAutofocus
- fix a problem where the adapter would crash if selected as a 'synchronized' device.
- performance improvement in median filter algorithm
- fix a compile problem only appearing on Linux g++
- NikonTI
- more patches
- DTOpenLayer
- improve handling of voltage ranges
- Yokogawa CSUX
- ensure CSUX hub supports the brightfield port before creating bright field property
- Scion
- revert to adapter from about February 2010
- PCO Camera
- add OnEMLeftROI property
- add skip frame support
- Princeton Instruments camera
- Bug fixes in core & acquisition:
- TileCreatorDlg.java
- correct numbering of columns
- only add Z to meta data if it's in use,
- write column and row into metadata.
- MMAcquisitionEngineMT.java - fix a problem where Autofocus was not restored after the acquisition
- MMCore.cpp - fix a problem where one mis-communicating device prevents user from correcting the hardware configuration.
- TileCreatorDlg.java
Micro-Manager 1.3.47 (November 1, 2010)
- Windows XP, 13 MB
- Mac OS X (Universal Binary), 34 MB
- Debian/Ubuntu Linux
- New devices:
- Agilent Laser Combiner
- Lumen Dynamics (Exfo) X-Cite 120PC
- Olympus MT20 (Michael Mitchell, EMBL)
- Pololu Maestro Servo Controller
- Several bug fixes and improvements in device code:
- Andor camera
- Leica camera
- Mad City Labs motion controller
- NikonTI microscope
- Olympus microscope
- PCO camera
- Photometrics camera
- QImaging camera
- Scion camera
- Serial adapter
- Spot camera
- SutterLambda controller
- TheImagingSource camera
- Bug fixes in the user interface:
- Contrast Panel
- Multi-dimensional acquision
- Slide Explorer Plugin
Version 1.3 of Micro-Manager has stabilized: further changes to 1.3 will be limited to bug fixes.
New features in Micro-Manager will be introduced in version 1.4.
Micro-Manager 1.3.43 (December 23, 2009)
- Windows XP, 9 MB
- Mac OS X(Universal Binary), 34 MB
- Newly supported devices
- SLM/Projector support
- Andor Laser Combiner (not yet tested!)
- Prior NanoScanZ
- Improved Device Support
- Nikon Eclipse Ti microscope now works with latest driver 2.0.2 from Nikon
- Nikon Eclipse Ti microscope: user can now select Speed and Tolerance of stage axes
- Nikon IntensiLight Neutral Density filters
- DemoCam now supports color image generation
- Update to Photometrics / Roper Scientific libraries (thanks to Photometrics)
- Fix image freezing problem seen with Hamamatsu cameras
- Improved Support for QImaging QCam (thanks to Jeff Kuhn)
- Improved Support for Apogee Cameras (thanks to Bob Dougherty)
- Zeiss Definite Focus improvements
- Configuration & GUI & Log Level
- Improved Plugin Mechanism
- More informative error messages, better exception handling
- Device Properties will now be nicely sorted in drop downs
- Fixed a problem with saving current configuration when specifying a file name
- Image Gamma slider control
- Improved stability of Live Mode
- Multi-D acquisition: Added per-channel skip Z-stack option
- Build Projects & Procedures
- OS X packages are now Universal (PPC, x86, x64) and can be run as 64-bit applications
- The Windows Project files now use relative paths
- Software is built daily for both Windows and OS X
- Boost libraries are now used for logging, Posix time, and Thread ID functions
Previous releases
Micro-Manager 1.3.41 beta, (October 12, 2009)
- Windows XP, 9 MB
- Mac OS X(Intel), 18 MB
- New supported devices
- Scion cameras (Douglas Remsberg, Scion)
- Diagnostic SPOT cameras (Windows, Mac)
- TWAIN cameras (operational on Leica cameras)
- Leica DM6000 microscope
- Thorlabs DCxxxx LED controllers
- Thorlabs Filterwheel
- Coherent Cube
- Neos AOTF
- A new python wrapper for the Micro-Manager core
- Fixes to keyboard shortcuts
- Live display of average and standard deviation of images
- Re-orderable positions lists
- Many fixed bugs
Micro-Manager 1.3.40 beta, (July 21, 2009)
- Windows XP, 8 MB
- Mac OS X(Intel), 17 MB
- Mac OS X(PPC), 16MB)
- Major upgrade to autofocus system
- New integrated user interface for hardware and image-based autofocus
- Support for Nikon Perfect Focus, Zeiss Definite Focus, Olympus ZDC, ASI CRIFF
- Image-based autofocus plugins
- New API to write your own autofocusing algorithm in Java or C++
- Zeiss Colibri illuminator
- Olympus BX61 support (by Shalin Mehta, National University of Singapore)
- Andor linux patches (by Karl Bellve, UMass)
- Thorlabs SC10
- Improvements to configuration editing
- Re-vamped gui for Multi-Dimensional Acquisition
- Mouse-scroll-wheel works in scripting panel
- NikonTI TIRF attachment support
- Leica DMR microscope support
Micro-Manager 1.3.39 beta, (May 15, 2009)
- Windows XP, 8 MB
- Mac OS X(Intel), 16 MB
- Fixed build bugs
- Drag stage with hand tool
- New Mad City Stage versions
- Improved registration dialog
- Float property value bug fixed
- Position list made editable
- Andor camera freezing snap bug fixed
- MF Shutter issues fixed
Micro-Manager 1.3.38 beta, (April 29, 2009)
- Windows XP, 8 MB
- Mac OS X(Intel), 16 MB
- Debian package (maintained by Johan Henriksson)
- New image-based autofocus (Contribued by 100x Imaging)
- Extensive fixes to various PVCAM adapter bugs
- Linux patches by Johan Henriksson and Karl Bellve
- Improved code logging
- Andor properties problem fixed
- Image5D to hyperstack conversion improved
- Adapters for NI, PI, and Thorlabs by Brian Ashcroft
- Core API changes for multiple cameras
Micro-Manager 1.3.37 beta, (April 9, 2009)
- Windows XP, 8 MB
- Mac OS X(Intel), 16 MB
- Fixed mouse moving the stage in live mode
- Physical ROI now visible in Image5D Snap
- Multi-D Acquisition settings a restored after a Multi-D run
- Fixed z-offset problem with Multi-D Acq
- Beanshell scripts for unit testing of device adapters
- Fixed sensicam binning problem (Franz)
- Metadata viewer now saves contrast and colors
- Image5D window now acquires a name when saved
- Improved Multi-D Acquisition gui logic
Micro-Manager 1.3.36 beta, (April 3, 2009)
- Windows XP, 8 MB
- Mac OS X(Intel), 16 MB
- Olympus focusing (z stage) bug fixed
- QCam Mac live mode hanging bug fixed
- Fixed memory leaks in Multi-D Acquisition
- Pixel size calibration fixed to propagate from Multi-D Acquisition
- Quantix Photometrics Error 22 bug corrected
- Introduced new global script methods: doc(), inspect(), update()
- ASI Well Plate Transfer Robot adapter added
- Internationalization bug fix
- Histogram scaling restored
Micro-Manager 1.3.34 beta, (March 18, 2009)
- PrecisExcite bug fix
Micro-Manager 1.3.33 beta, (March 16, 2009)
- Windows XP, 5.4 MB
- Mac OS X(Intel), 14.9 MB
- PrecisExcite adapter
- Made OS X 10.4 compatible again
Micro-Manager 1.3.32 beta, (March 13, 2009)
Micro-Manager 1.3.31 beta, (March 11, 2009)
- Windows XP, 5.4 MB
- Mac OS X(PPC), 26 MB
Micro-Manager 1.3.30 beta, (March 4, 2009)
- Windows XP, 5.4 MB
- Mac OS X(Intel), 14.9 MB
Bugs are seen in some PVCAM cameras in this release:
- Auto shutter fails to stay open during exposure
- Burst mode sometimes stops unexpectedly
Bug fixes in this release:
- Andor adapter: fixes to make Luca R work
- PCO adapter: fixed bug in binning (Franz)
- Olympus adapter: various bug fixes
- Leica: added control for Halogen Lamp (Prashanth, 100xImaging)
- PVCAM: various bug fixes (various authors)
Micro-Manager 1.3.24 beta, (February 24, 2009)
- Corrected driver complement
Micro-Manager 1.3.23 beta, (February 17, 2009)
Micro-Manager 1.3.22 beta, (February 13, 2009)
- Mac OS X(Intel), 14.1 MB (Missing drivers; do not use!)
- Mac OS X(PPC), 26 MB
This new release includes:
- Faster live mode (using camera sequence mode, in collaboration with 100XImaging)
- New Micro-Manager plugin mechanism (provided by 100XImaging)
- Keratocyte Tracker plugin (provided by 100XImaging)
- New "Acquire" button collects series of still images with metadata
- Keyboard commands to move stages
- New autofocussing mechanism (provided by 100XImaging)
- Improved Script Panel (new interactive Beanshell interpreter)
- Extensions to the scripting interface
- Many minor bugfixes in all parts of the application
- New Devices:
- ABSCameras (provided by Michael HimmelReich)
- Arduino digital IO board
- Piper (Stanford Photonics cameras, provided by Stanford Photonics)
- Leica DMI microcopes (provided by 100XImaging)
- Device updates:
- Andor added external triggers and updated support for new cameras
- Nikon TE2000 added filter wheel (100X Imaging)
- Moved DAZStage, DAShutter and MultiShutter into adapter Utilities
- Added StateDeviceShutter (in Utilities) that enables using a filter wheel as a shutter
Even earlier releases
Micro-Manager 1.2 Windows (Very Old!) | Micro-Manager 1.2 Mac (Very Old!)