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

Thu Jan 6 10:44:04 EST 2011

Congrats to the OFFIS team !!!
Julien.

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Steve Pieper <pieper at bwh.harvard.edu>wrote:

> 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
>>
>> -------------------8<---------------8<--------------8<-----------------
>>
>>
>> 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 :-)
>>
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