[Ctk-developers] FYI: DCMTK 3.6.0 available for public release!

Thu Jan 6 15:39:45 UTC 2011

Hi Micheal -

Wow - you guys have been busy!  I'm looking forward to playing with the 
new dcmtk - enjoy your break!

-Steve

On 01/06/2011 10:27 AM, OFFIS DICOM Team wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> you won't believe it -- but today we released version 3.6.0 of DCMTK :-) It
> took us some years to finally consolidate all our recent changes into a
> release but I hope next official version will not take us 5 years again...
> However, we have not been lazy the last years, see the official
> announcement
> with the "best of" changes below. I know most of you are working on the
> latest snapshots/git checkouts anyway.
>
> Thank's to all the CTK people that were contributing to DCMTK and
> especially
> kickstarted the CMake build system to run under Unix systems!
>
> I am sorry that we/I do not have time to put much work into CTK's DICOM
> interfaces the last months. I have already mailed Marco how we could move
> forward with that from my point of view.
>
> Enjoy the CTK Hackfest in February! Unfortunately I'm not able to
> participate since I (must) take my 2010 holidays in complete February
> and it
> is always difficult for me to get funding here for such trips in
> general. If
> will try to be online some hackfest hours in Skype. So if you have some
> urgent issues to discuss, add me as "michaeloffis" to your contact list or
> email me.
>
> Best regards
> Michael
>
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>
> ANNOUNCEMENT
>
> Version 3.6.0 of the OFFIS DCMTK (DICOM ToolKit) software is now available
> for public release. This release includes the following main changes over
> the previous version 3.5.4:
>
> - DCMTK 3.6.0 now also builds correctly with GNU gcc 4.1 (and higher),
> Visual Studio 2008 and 2010.
>
> - Tested with latest versions of the following operating
> systems/environments:
>
> - Linux on x86 and x86_64
> - FreeBSD on x86 and x86_64
> - MacOS X on x86_64
> - Windows on x86 and x86_64
> - Cygwin and MinGW/MSys on x86
>
> For a complete list of tested systems and compilers, see the INSTALL file.
>
> - The CMake build system can now also be used with other operating systems
> than Windows. However, GNU autoconf is still supported and should be
> preferred on systems where the CMake project files fail.
>
> - New module oflog introduces a unified DCMTK-wide approach for logging
> based on the log4cplus library. Direct output to console, file, syslog
> and event log. All DCMTK command line tools now have the same set of
> logging options.
>
> - New module dcmjpls adds support for JPEG-LS compressed DICOM images based
> on the CharLS library. The tools dcmcjpls and dcmdjpls allow for
> compressing and decompressing DICOM images with JPEG-LS from the command
> line.
>
> - New tool img2dcm allows for converting JPEG and BMP images to various
> DICOM image IODs, e.g. old and new Secondary Capture, Visible Light
> Photographic. The underlying C++ class library can also be used
> separately.
>
> - New tool dcm2pdf allows for extracting PDF files from DICOM Encapsulated
> PDF Storage SOP instances.
>
> - New tool dcml2pnm allows for converting JPEG-LS compressed DICOM imagesto
> standard image formats like TIFF or BMP.
>
> - The tools dcmdump and storescu have new options for searching directories
> recursively for DICOM files.
>
> - The tool dcmdump now also has a colored output of the textual dump. So
> far, this option is available on non-Windows systems only (uses ANSI
> escape code).
>
> - The tool dcmodify now also supports reading the value of insert and
> modify
> statements from a file. This is especially useful for large element
> values.
>
> - The tool dsr2html now also supports the output in HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.1
> format. There are also new options that affect the rendering result.
>
> - The tool dump2dcm now also supports compressed pixel data. In addition,
> the memory requirements for very large data elements have been reduced.
>
> - The tool xml2dcm can now also read binary data (e.g. pixel data) from a
> separate file. The corresponding feature is not yet available in dcm2xml.
>
> - The tool storescp now has a new option that allows for accepting all
> supported transfer syntaxes on a single association.
>
> - The tool wlmscpfs now supports multi-process mode both on Posix and
> Windows platforms where a new child process is created for each incoming
> association.
>
> - Refactored code of the tool findscu into a C++ class. This facilitates
> re-use of the findscu code in other applications.
>
> - Added further "switches" to the dcmdata module which allow to better cope
> with incorrectly encoded DICOM files or datasets. These switches are also
> available as new options to the tools dcmdump and dcmconv.
>
> - The dcmdata module now also gives access to partial attribute values
> without loading the complete attribute value into memory, if kept in file.
>
> - The write methods in dcmdata now handle large raw data elements without
> loading everything into memory. This allows very large images to be sent
> over a network connection or to be copied without ever being fully in
> memory.
>
> - The dcmdata module now has a common interface for the frame-wise accessto
> compressed and uncompressed pixel data without ever loading the complete
> object into main memory.
>
> - The dcmimgle/dcmimage module makes use of the new partial access to pixel
> data for processing large multi-frame images in a stepwise manner.
>
> - The dcmimgle/dcmimage module and related tools now also support a new
> bilinear and a bicubic scaling algorithm for image magnification.
> Furthermore, the sigmoid VOI LUT function has been implemented.
>
> - Added support for Colon CAD SR, Spectacle Prescription Report, Macular
> Grid Thickness and Volume Report as well as Implantation Plan SR
> documents to the dcmsr module.
>
> - Incorporated fixes to dcmsr module which were introduced by various
> correction proposals. Added support for the new optional Preliminary
> Flag.
>
> - DICOMDIR tools and classes now support all new SOP classes and directory
> record types. Also added a new operating mode that allows for updating
> existing entries in a DICOMDIR.
>
> - Introduced general path syntax for accessing nested elements from command
> line tools like findscu or dcmodify.
>
> - Added methods for checking the value representation (VR) and value
> multiplicity (VM) of data elements for conformance with the DICOM
> standard.
>
> - Network tools now support transmission and receipt of JPEG-LS and MPEG2
> transfer syntaxes.
>
> - Added support for the extended negotiation of user identity to the dcmnet
> module. The first tool that makes use of this new feature is storescu.
>
> - Introduced new experimental SCU and SCP classes that act as a C++ wrapper
> to the still C-based dcmnet module.
>
> - Added new class OFFile that provides a simple encapsulation layer for
> file
> based stream I/O and, in particular, provides large file support (LFS)if
> available on the underlying operating system/platform through a single
> API.
>
> - Out of the box compilation with OpenSSL 1.0.0 is now supported.
>
> - Revised installation directory scheme in order to be more compliant with
> the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) and derived file system standards.
>
> - Added data dictionary including private ASTM tags from DICONDE (Digital
> Imaging and Communication in Nondestructive Evaluation) standard.
>
> - The DICOM data dictionary as well as the list of SOP classes and transfer
> syntaxes have been re-worked based on the latest edition of the DICOM
> standard plus all additionally approved supplements and correction
> proposals (as of 2010-11-30). Please note that there have been minor
> name changes!
>
> - Many bug fixes and minor improvements as usual - see the more than 12,000
> lines long CHANGES.360 file for more details.
>
> The DCMTK software can be downloaded via:
>
> http://dicom.offis.de/dcmtk or http://www.dcmtk.org/
>
> Thank you for your contribution!
>
> Greetings from Oldenburg,
> Jörg, Marco, Michael and Uli
>
> P.S: Enjoy :-)
>