Yesterday, on 2012-02-22 (what a date!) , a new development snapshot of the DCMTK has been made available. This is the sixth snapshot after the official release of version 3.6.0. Again, a couple of minor issues have been fixed that were detected after the publication of the previous version. This time, only few adaptations were necessary for staying up-to-date with the latest final text supplements and correction items to the DICOM standard.
Some highlights of this snapshot are:
- Full support for building shared libraries using CMake, this includes building of Windows DLLs.
- Revised implementation of class OFCondition in order to avoid issues with static initialization order.
- Initial support for wide character strings (UTF-16) used for filenames by the Windows operating system.
- Many minor improvements to the DICOM Structured Reporting (SR) module, e.g. in order to stay up-to-date with the standard’s development.
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 — I guess you knew that already 🙂