Today, a new development snapshot of the DCMTK has been made available. This is the fifth snapshot after the official release of version 3.6.0. As it is true for all snapshots since then, a couple of minor issues have been fixed that were detected after the publication of the previous version. In addition, the toolkit has again been adapted for the latest final text supplements and correction items.
This snapshot also contains the first version of a new command line tool dcmsend, which is a Simple Storage Service Class User (SCU) as described in a previous posting. Furthermore, initial support for converting between different character sets has been added to the DCMTK as described in more detail in another posting. Other new features are:
- dcm2xml now also supports the XML format according to the Native DICOM Model (DICOM Part 19, “Application Hosting”).
- A first version of a simple non-validating XML parser has been added. This parser is intended to be used for configuration files and the like.
Further details on what has changed can be found in the corresponding CHANGES file. If you are interested in the differences on a source code level, please check the web interface of our public git repository.