2011-11-11 pydicom 0.9.6 released

pydicom 0.9.6 updates the dictionary to the DICOM 2011 standard, and fixes several bugs. For more details, see the ReleaseNotes

2011-08 pydicom poster at AAPM/COMP joint meeting

http://aapm.org/meetings/2011AM/PRAbs.asp?mid=59&aid=16677

2010-10-17 pydicom 0.9.5 released

Bug fixes and some contributed files in the contrib folder.

2010-02-16 pydicom 0.9.4 released

License returned to MIT-based. Updated source for private dictionaries. Significantly faster reading of DICOM files. For more details, see the ReleaseNotes.

2009-11-19 License

There was a question raised about the pydicom MIT-based license in issue 61. While this is considered, the googlecode license has been changed to LGPL.

2009-11-11 New pydicom-dev group created, and pydicom icons

A new google group, pydicom-dev, was created for discussion about developing the pydicom code itself. More details are at this pydicom group post.

Roy Keyes contributed a graphic for pydicom -- it's in use on the google code project page, and on the pydicom and pydicom-dev discussion groups. Thanks Roy!

2009-10-31 Mercurial now used for version control

Still hosting the code at pydicom.googlecode.com, but using the Mercurial version control. See reasons for the change at http://groups.google.com/group/pydicom/browse_thread/thread/da9e4456e0ffe613

2009-06-10 pydicom mentioned in Open Source Health Care press release

In a press release from Black Duck software, distributed through Marketwire and picked up all over the internet, pydicom was mentioned beside dcm4che: "...There are 69 additional open source projects in the DICOM ecosystem including pydicom, dicom-archive, EchoScu-DICOM, and many more." -- Open Source Software Projects in Health Care Offer Significant Cost Savings, Reports Black Duck Software.

2009-05-23 pydicom 0.9.3 released

Added private tag dictionary and now display private tag description when available; added support for deferred reading of large data element values, bug fixes, etc; changed to MIT-style license. For more details, see the ReleaseNotes.

2009-01-11 pydicom 0.9.2 released

A number of bug fixes, added support for characters sets, renamed Attribute class to DataElement. For full details, see the ReleaseNotes.

2008-12-23 Pydicom included in python(x,y)

pydicom is included in the full release of python(x,y) 2.1.6, a collection of (and single installer for) scientific-oriented Python libraries, development environment tools and their related documentation.

2008-10-26 Google Group Created

pydicom now has a google group (http://groups.google.com/group/pydicom) for new version announcements, asking and answering questions, suggesting improvements, contributing example code ... any discussion around the pydicom package. I encourage anyone who is using the code to join the group to stay up to date with the latest information.

2008-10-11 Registered with Python Package Index

Registered pydicom manually with the Python Package Index: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pydicom/0.9.1

2008-10-06 pydicom-0.9.1 released

pydicom-0.9.1 released in both source and binary distributions. Announced on comp.protocols.dicom newsgroup.

2008-09-07 First posting of pydicom code

Chose googlecode.com for hosting the pydicom code, and uploaded the source code for what I have been calling version 0.9.0