After a huge development effort of some 150 commits over 9 months, it is a great relief to announce that ruby-dicom 0.9 has finally been released!

This release sees the addition of dynamic dictionary based method names for creating, editing and deleting elements, simplifying your manipulation of the DICOM object.

We have a number of improvements to image handling, introducing the concept of image processors. A number of bug fixes, speed improvements, method additions and renames has resulted in a cleaner and improved library for handling your DICOM needs.

Furthermore, the network code has seen a number of compatibility improvements, and sending DICOM files with DClient should now work for all transfer syntaxes.

Another focus of this development cycle has been to implement a specification test suite, and while not necessarily visible to the end user, it has helped iron out bugs and ensure that the library has fewer surprises and works as expected.

Please check the Changelog and the Documentation for full details.