It is my pleasure to announce that Ruby DICOM 0.5 has been released. The biggest news in this release is perhaps the fact that Ruby DICOM is now compatible with Ruby 1.9.

Some effort have been made to clean up the code, resulting in somewhat snappier execution and a simpler and hopefully more elegant syntax. Existing users should be aware of these changes when upgrading Ruby DICOM.

Another feature worth mentioning, is the fact that all DICOM object information is now available as (read only) attributes. This enables you to use the information any way you may choose to, instead of having to rely on the methods of the library to access the information.

Other than that, a few keywords have been added to allow for more powerful query of the DICOM object. Please see documentation for details.