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
• 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.

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)

- Windows XP, 5.4 MB

• 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)

- Mac OS X(Intel), 14.9 MB

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)

- Mac OS X(Intel), 14.9 MB

• Corrected driver complement

Micro-Manager 1.3.23 beta, (February 17, 2009)

- Windows XP, 5.4 MB

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!)