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+ANNOUNCEMENT
+
+The DICOM server software used during the June CAR'96 DICOM Demonstration
+is now publically available from:
+
+ftp://ftp.offis.uni-oldenburg.de/pub/dicom/offis/software/ 
+
+The CAR'96 DICOM demonstration featured Modality Worklist Management
+and Image Storage/Query/Retrieval.  The available software includes
+source code and documentation for the worklist management and image 
+storage/query/retrieve server applications, a number of test 
+applications, and the necessary libraries.
+
+This software package as been renamed DCMTK (DiCoM ToolKit).  It contains
+a number of improvements over the software previously available from
+OFFIS/Oldenburg University, the most important being:
+
+- configuration using GNU-Configure
+- a modality worklist SCP and SCU
+- a new C++ encoding/decoding library
+- support for offline media
+- support for explicit VR transfer syntaxes
+- a user-extensible data dictionary
+- support for all balloted image SOP classes
+- numerous bug fixes
+
+The software is now being maintained by OFFIS, a non-profit R&D institute.
+

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+ANNOUNCEMENT
+
+The DICOM server software used during the June CAR'96 DICOM Demonstration
+is now publically available from:
+
+ftp://ftp.offis.uni-oldenburg.de/pub/dicom/offis/software/ 
+
+The CAR'96 DICOM demonstration featured Modality Worklist Management
+and Image Storage/Query/Retrieval.  The available software includes
+source code and documentation for the worklist management and image 
+storage/query/retrieve server applications, a number of test 
+applications, and the necessary libraries.
+
+This software package has been renamed DCMTK (DiCoM ToolKit).  It contains
+a number of improvements over the software previously available from
+OFFIS/Oldenburg University, the most important being:
+
+- configuration using GNU-Configure
+- a modality worklist SCP and SCU
+- a new C++ encoding/decoding library
+- support for offline media
+- support for explicit VR transfer syntaxes
+- a user-extensible data dictionary
+- support for all balloted image SOP classes
+- numerous bug fixes
+
+The software is now being maintained by OFFIS, a non-profit R&D institute.
+

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+ANNOUNCEMENT
+
+The DICOM server software used during the June CAR'96 DICOM Demonstration
+is now publically available from:
+
+ftp://ftp.offis.uni-oldenburg.de/pub/dicom/offis/software/ 
+
+The CAR'96 DICOM demonstration featured Modality Worklist Management
+and Image Storage/Query/Retrieval.  The available software includes
+source code and documentation for the worklist management and image 
+storage/query/retrieve server applications, a number of test 
+applications, and the necessary libraries.
+
+This software package has been renamed DCMTK (DiCoM ToolKit).  It contains
+a number of improvements over the software previously available from
+OFFIS/Oldenburg University, the most important being:
+
+- configuration using GNU-Configure
+- a modality worklist SCP and SCU
+- a new C++ encoding/decoding library
+- support for offline media
+- support for explicit VR transfer syntaxes
+- a user-extensible data dictionary
+- support for all balloted image SOP classes
+- numerous bug fixes
+
+The software is now being maintained by OFFIS, a non-profit R&D institute.
+

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+ANNOUNCEMENT
+
+Version 3.2 of the OFFIS DCMTK (DICOM ToolKit) software is now available
+for public release.  This release includes the following main changes 
+over the previous release (Version 3.1.2):
+
+- dcmgpdir - an application to build a DICOMDIR according to the
+  specifications of Supplement 19: General Purpose CD-R Image Interchange
+  Profile.
+
+- Support for additional Storage SOP Classes (e.g. PET, Visible Light, 
+  Print Storage).
+
+- Basic toolkit support (data dictionary and UID tables) for Queue 
+  Management, Performed Procedure Step, User Preference LUT.
+
+- Support for Supplement 14: Unknown VR.
+
+- More than 80 bug fixes and improvements (see CHANGES file for details).
+
+The Image CTN and Worklist CTN servers from DCMTK Version 3.2 (imagectn 
+and wlistctn) will be used during the DICOM Network Interoperability 
+Demonstration as part of the Industrial Exhibition at CAR'97 in Berlin, 
+Germany (June 26-27).
+
+DCMTK Version 3.2 was also used to assist production of the CAR'97 DICOM
+Demonstration CD.  In particular, the dcmgpdir application was used to
+build the DICOMDIR (Medical Directory) found on the CD.
+
+The DCMTK software can be downloaded via:
+
+	http://www.offis.uni-oldenburg.de/projekte/dicom/dicom_software_e.html
+
+
+---
+Andrew Hewett, Marco Eichelberg, Andreas Barth, Sandra von Gehlen
+Oldenburg, 30 May, 1997

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+ANNOUNCEMENT
+
+Version 3.2 of the OFFIS DCMTK (DICOM ToolKit) software is now available
+for public release.  This release includes the following main changes 
+over the previous release (Version 3.1.2):
+
+- dcmgpdir - an application to build a DICOMDIR according to the
+  specifications of Supplement 19: General Purpose CD-R Image Interchange
+  Profile.
+
+- Support for additional Storage SOP Classes (e.g. PET, Visible Light, 
+  Print Storage).
+
+- Basic toolkit support (data dictionary and UID tables) for Queue 
+  Management, Performed Procedure Step, User Preference LUT.
+
+- Support for Supplement 14: Unknown VR.
+
+- More than 80 bug fixes and improvements (see CHANGES file for details).
+
+The Image CTN and Worklist CTN servers from DCMTK Version 3.2 (imagectn 
+and wlistctn) will be used during the DICOM Network Interoperability 
+Demonstration as part of the Industrial Exhibition at CAR'97 in Berlin, 
+Germany (June 26-27).
+
+DCMTK Version 3.2 was also used to assist production of the CAR'97 DICOM
+Demonstration CD.  In particular, the dcmgpdir application was used to
+build the DICOMDIR (Medical Directory) found on the CD.
+
+The DCMTK software can be downloaded via:
+
+	http://www.offis.uni-oldenburg.de/projekte/dicom/dicom_software_e.html
+
+
+---
+Andrew Hewett, Marco Eichelberg, Andreas Barth, Sandra von Gehlen
+Oldenburg, 30 May, 1997

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+ANNOUNCEMENT
+
+Version 3.3 of the OFFIS DCMTK (DICOM ToolKit) software is now available
+for public release.  This release includes the following main changes 
+over the previous version (Version 3.2.1):
+
+- Improved support for Windows95/NT with project makefiles for
+  Microsoft Visual C++ 4.0
+
+- Fixes several problems related to opening files and networking
+  under Windows95/NT.  
+
+- Fixes several problems related to incorrect encoding of group length 
+  attributes, sequences and item lengths.  
+
+- Improved data dictionary support.  The data dictionary is now
+  implemented as a hash table with an optimised hash function.  Loading 
+  a data dictionary is now 4 times faster.
+
+- Provides a new framework for pixel data codecs (e.g. the JPEG processes).
+  This includes the new classes DcmPixelData, DcmCodec and supporters
+  but does not yet include any specific compression codec code.
+
+- Provides an emulation of ANSI-C++ string, list and stack classes.
+
+- Various bug-fixes detected during and after the CAR'97 DICOM Demonstration.
+
+See the dcmtk/CHANGES file for more details.
+
+The DCMTK software can be downloaded via:
+
+	http://www.offis.uni-oldenburg.de/projekte/dicom/dicom_software_e.html
+
+
+---
+Andrew Hewett, Marco Eichelberg, Andreas Barth, Sandra von Gehlen
+7 October 1997,
+Oldenburg, Germany
+

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+ANNOUNCEMENT
+
+Version 3.3.1 of the OFFIS DCMTK (DICOM ToolKit) software is now available
+for public release.  This release includes the following main changes 
+over the previous version (Version 3.3.0):
+
+- Added support for experimental use of the proposed new 
+  DICOM Value Representations UT (Unlimited Text) and VS (Virtual String).
+
+- Added basic support for the Structured Reporting (SR) SOP Classes.
+
+- Updated support for Supplements 15 (Visible Light), 
+  16 (Postscript Print Management), 17 (Modality Performed Procedure Step), 
+  22 (Presentation Look Up Table (LUT)), 23 (Structured Reporting), 
+  24 (Stored Print), 30 (Waveform Interchange).  
+
+- Improved auto-detection of transfer syntax 
+  (used when opening a DICOM file without metaheader).
+
+- Added IRIX related information to FAQ.
+
+- Fixed problem on Windows 95 (not NT) preventing the use
+  of explicit IP addresses instead of DNS/hostnames in configuration files
+  and command line switches.
+
+- Fixed problem related to incorrect decoding of data containing
+  Curve Data repeating groups.
+
+- Fixed problem related to incorrect parsing of data 
+  encoded using the RLELossless transfer syntax.
+
+- Various bug-fixes detected after the release of version 3.3.0.
+
+See the dcmtk/CHANGES file for more details.
+
+The DCMTK software can be downloaded via:
+
+	http://www.offis.uni-oldenburg.de/projekte/dicom/dicom_software_e.html
+
+
+---
+Andrew Hewett, Marco Eichelberg, Andreas Barth, Sandra von Gehlen
+17 February 1998,
+Oldenburg, Germany
+

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+
+ANNOUNCEMENT
+
+Version 3.4.0 of the OFFIS DCMTK (DICOM ToolKit) software is now available
+for public release.  This release includes the following main changes 
+over the previous version (Version 3.3.1):
+
+- The DICOM data dictionary has been completely re-worked based
+  on the 1998 edition of the DICOM standard and the latest supplements.
+
+- The new module dcmimgle ("dcmimage light edition") contains routines to 
+  efficiently render DICOM grayscale images. The library supports all DICOM 
+  grayscale transformations including the various look-up tables. It also 
+  supports rotating, scaling, and processing of overlay bitmaps. This module 
+  has been added to DCMTK to support the Grayscale Softcopy Presentation 
+  State demonstrator (DICOMscope) which has been shown at the European 
+  Congress of Radiology 1999.
+
+- The new module dcmpstat contains routines to read, manage and write DICOM 
+  Grayscale Softcopy Presentation State objects according to Supplement 33 
+  (revised frozen draft for demonstration, Version 18). This module has also 
+  been added to DCMTK to support the Grayscale Softcopy Presentation State 
+  demonstrator (DICOMscope) which has been shown at the European Congress of 
+  Radiology 1999.
+
+- All applications in the dcmdata and dcmnet modules have been updated to 
+  use a new command line option scheme which makes calls more self-explaining 
+  as the tools get more and more options.
+
+- Experimental support for the network transmission of DICOM images
+  in encapsulated transfer syntax (compressed) has been added to the
+  dcmnet library and the storescu, storescp and movescu applications.
+
+- Experimental support for C-GET and extended SOP class negotiation
+  has been added to the dcmnet library.  
+
+- The Worklist CTN now supports all type 1 and 2 attributes as return
+  keys and has also been ported to Windows.
+
+- New FAQ entries: Building DCMTK on HP-UX 10 or Unixware, Building the 
+  DCMTK libraries as shared objects on Unix platforms, Images received in 
+  /tmp when running imagectn as root.
+
+- Improved handling of unknown (or unsupported) VRs when reading or 
+  receiving explicit VR data. Allows to communicate with certain modalities 
+  using private VR names like "??" without extended length field.
+
+- Many bug fixes and minor improvements - See the dcmtk/CHANGES file for 
+  more details.
+
+
+Attention: The file format of the imagectn index file has changed with the 
+new release. You need to rebuild index files when updating imagectn to 
+DCMTK 3.4.0.
+
+Many people have contributed to this new release of DCMTK, appearing here 
+in alphabetical order. Thank you very much for your support!
+  Yongjian Bao <[email protected]>
+  Heinz Blendinger <[email protected]>
+  David Clunie <[email protected]> 
+  Sacha Helbig <[email protected]>
+  Andy Hewett <[email protected]>
+  Markus Mertens <[email protected]>
+  Gilles Mevel <[email protected]>
+  Wolfgang Rapp <[email protected]>
+  Alexander Sahler <[email protected]>
+  Andreas Schroeter <[email protected]>
+  Lutz Vorwerk <[email protected]>
+
+OFFIS staff who have worked on this release are:
+  Marco Eichelberg <[email protected]>
+  Joerg Riesmeier <[email protected]>
+
+The DCMTK software can be downloaded via:
+  http://www.offis.uni-oldenburg.de/projekte/dicom/
+
+
+Kuratorium OFFIS eV, Oldenburg, Germany, 1999-05-03

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+ANNOUNCEMENT
+
+Version 3.4.1 of the OFFIS DCMTK (DICOM ToolKit) software is now available
+for public release.  This release includes the following main changes 
+over the previous version (Version 3.4.0):
+
+- The DICOM data dictionary has been re-worked based on the 1999 edition of 
+  the DICOM standard, the latest supplements and correction proposals (CP 
+  package 6).
+
+- The speed of network transmission has increased significantly, in 
+  particular for small transfers like C-FIND. By default a 32K socket 
+  buffer is now used and the Nagle algorithm is switched off.
+
+- The grayscale calibration routines in the dcmimgle module have been
+  extended to support both the DICOM Grayscale Standard Display Function
+  and the CIE LAB display function.
+
+- The dcmpstat module has been reworked to implement the final version of
+  the Grayscale Softcopy Presentation State Supplement.
+
+- An implementation of a DICOM Basic Grayscale Print Management SCU 
+  supporting the Presentation LUT SOP Class has been added to the dcmpstat 
+  module.
+
+- The imagectn and ctndisp applications have been adapted to the common   
+  command line scheme introduced in version 3.4.0.
+
+- Experimental library support for redirecting error messages into a memory 
+  stream instead of printing them to stdout/stderr has been implemented 
+  (for GUI applications).
+
+- Experimental support for the Patient/Study Only Query/Retrieve model has 
+  been added to the imagectn application.
+
+- Many bug fixes and minor improvements - See the dcmtk/CHANGES file for 
+  more details.
+
+
+This version of the OFFIS DCMTK contains the C++ source code that is 
+required to compile the DICOMscope 2.0 software (as exhibited at RSNA 
+InfoRAD 1999) from source. However, the Java2 source code, which is also 
+required by DICOMscope 2.0, is distributed separately.
+
+
+Many people have contributed to this new release of DCMTK, appearing here 
+in alphabetical order. Thank you very much for your support!
+  Andreas Barth <[email protected]>
+  Andy Hewett <[email protected]>
+  David Lappen <[email protected]>
+  Markus Mertens <[email protected]>
+  Gilles Mevel <[email protected]>
+  Sebastian Meyer <[email protected]>
+
+OFFIS staff who have worked on this release are:
+  Marco Eichelberg <[email protected]>
+  Joerg Riesmeier <[email protected]>
+  Andreas Thiel <[email protected]>
+
+The DCMTK software can be downloaded via:
+  http://www.offis.uni-oldenburg.de/projekte/dicom/
+
+
+Kuratorium OFFIS eV, Oldenburg, Germany, 2000-03-10
+