Fusion Benchtop Software Guide
Fusion Benchtop Software Guide
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Release Notes 2.8.0

Date 29th September 2026
Firmware: BC43 Version: 2.0.3817 BLE Version: 1.36.23

Fusion 2.8 delivers a major leap in imaging productivity, introducing ultra-large montage acquisition, smarter Focus Seek & Lock workflows, and advanced irregular montage capabilities for more flexible and efficient data acquisition.

 

New Features- Included on Core Fusion 2.8


Large Montage Support

  •  Supports up to 40,000 fields to be acquired in the same protocol.

  •  Multi-image view mode can be used to view all fields in large montages ( up to 40 000 fields) 

 

Focus Stabilisation

  • User-selectable focus stabilization interval from 1 to 30 minutes.

  • Option to automatically perform focus stabilization when moving to a new position.

  • Focus Stabilisation timing checks can be customised for each protocol type to provide more consistent stabilisation.   

  • Focus stabilisation on Montage will use the first position of the first Montage.

 

Overlay Manager

  • Possible to change the colour of any region.  

  • Option to show/hide labels and colour options on overlays.  

  • Possible to bring any overlay to the front via the Region Manager panel.  

  • Possible to copy regions from the Region Manager. 

  • Possible to delete regions from the Region Manager. 

 

 Image Display

  • Updated Imaris Rendering library to version 10.2.1.0

  • Rendering parameters aligned with Imaris application. 

  • Automatically update the current rendering parameters to provide: 

    • higher quality / lower performance when the user is not interacting with the 3D volume,  

    • and lower quality / higher performance when the user is interacting with the 3D volume. 

  •  Improved Default Contrast settings (Auto-Mapping)  

 

Additional Improvements                         

  • Possible to open a single file, a single montage and a full data set. 

  • Possible to add a name identifier of the position in a multi-position protocol: 

    • In file manager – preferences 

    • It is the default  setting

  • Current Coverslip position is reset when user escapes the objective (via 'New Specimen' button) 

  • Improved stage position indicators in multi-position workflows.

    • Clear visual indication when Z Intensity Correction is enabled.

    • Reset Views ( Image View / zoom settings) in Image Acquisition (selected on Rendering Preference) is defaulted to ON.  

o    If ON (default mode) the view is reset to standard settings each time acquisition is performed, or when going to live mode

o    If Off (set it in preferences – rendering), when going to live mode after acquisition, the zoom will be the same as previously selected by the user.  

 

Advanced features ( additional license required)

 

Irregular Montage (License Required) 

  • Available for Multi-Position and Multi-Well protocols.

  • Supports stitch Multi-Position ( or Multi-Well) irregular montage  

  • Supports  manually adding an irregular montage on all positions (wells) of the protocol  

  • Supports manual deletion and editing of individual montage positions in multi-position montage protocols.

  • Supports position-specific customisation.

  • Supports irregular montage creation, deletion, and cloning in all protocol positions.

  • Added problem notifications to notify the user if all or some positions/wells do not have an irregular montage specified for protocols of type multi-position with Perimeter Montage Mode specified. 

  • Possible to localise and visualise the perimeter of the irregular montage in the field of view, by selecting the respective position in the Multi-Position table

  • Import Bounds disabled for Multi-Position irregular montage workflows.

 

Stitching (License Required) 

  • Updated to Imaris Stitcher version 10.2 (current Imaris Stitcher version) 

 

 

Bugs Fixes:

  • Fixed an intermittent issue where a "collection modified" error could cause a crash when changing a protocol state to Running through the REST API.

  • Fix for the limitation on the number of tiles that could be displayed at the same time when in multi-field view mode. 

  • Fixed a bug in multi-position montage protocols. Both acquisition modes are now fully supported:

    • Position-based acquisition: The complete montage -time series is acquired at a given position (field) before moving to the next position.

    • Time point-based acquisition: All montage positions (fields) are visited at each time point throughout the time series before proceeding to the next time point.

  • While running a Multi-Position protocol with multi-image display toggled on for the 'At each position run a time series' option, the acquired data is now displayed during the time series acquisition at each.

  • Fix for channel changing to first in protocol when a protocol paused instead of remaining at the active channel. 

  • Fix for protocols taking longer than expected when using both and inner and outer time loop.