dcm4che, a DICOM Implementation in JAVA Files

Release Notes - dcm4che3 - Version 3.3.6
http://www.dcm4che.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=11685&projectId=10322

** Sub-task
    * [LIB-323] - Provide method Attributes.itemPointers()
    * [LIB-325] - Add new Attribute Referenced Bulk Data Sequence (FFF8,FFF8)
    * [LIB-326] - Provide method in class Attributes to add Bulk Data Reference encoded as new Item of Attribute Reference Bulk Data Sequence (FFF8,FFF8)
    * [LIB-327] - Add option to DicomInputStream to populate Attribute Referenced Bulk Data Sequence (FFF8,FFF8)
    * [LIB-332] - Add properties offsets and lengths to class BulkData for referencing fragmented pixel data by one BulkData object
    * [LIB-333] - Add methods to SAXReader to populate Attribute Referenced Bulk Data Sequence (FFF8,FFF8) from parsed BulkData XML elements
    * [LIB-334] - Add option to JSONReader to populate Attribute Referenced Bulk Data Sequence (FFF8,FFF8) from parsed BulkData JSON objects
    * [LIB-335] - Change default for DicomInputStream.ConcatenateBulkDataFiles to true


** Bug
    * [LIB-232] - Always rebuild xslt template
    * [LIB-239] - Calling DicomImageReader.read(page, null) may cause NullPointerException
    * [LIB-247] - Implement Continuous Delivery for dcm4che
    * [LIB-270] - storescu.bat has a text typo bug
    * [LIB-276] - wrong source integer in ASSOCIATE-RJ PDU when local open association exceeded
    * [LIB-277] - Error when luanching storescu.bat
    * [LIB-278] - ImageWriter not returned by org.dcm4che3.imageio.codec.ImageWriterFactory.getImageWriter();
    * [LIB-280] - NPE when decompressing JPEGLS images lesser than 256 bytes
    * [LIB-284] - All Tag constants for Command Elements in generated Tag.java are commented as "retired"
    * [LIB-299] - ContentHandlerAdapter can throw ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException during Inline Binary Parsing
    * [LIB-303] - storescu --rel-ext-neg --rel-sop-classes=XXX throws NPE
    * [LIB-307] - getscu: Missing Retrieve Level Value in C-GET RQ Identifier for Retrieve Without Bulk Data 
    * [LIB-308] - QueryRetrieveLevel.validateRetrieveKeys returns wrong results for rootLevel = IMAGE  
    * [LIB-310] - Attributes.getDateRange() does not consider Timezone
    * [LIB-316] - Support Other Double 64 Bit Floating Point Value Representation (OD) according CP-1261
    * [LIB-318] - JSONReader doesn't handle emty objects when reading fragments
    * [LIB-330] - Bulk Data reference to encoded pixel data  in JSON representation is not compliant to the DICOM JSON Model
    * [LIB-331] - Bulk Data reference to encoded pixel data in XML representation is not compliant to the DICOM Native Model


** Improvement
    * [LIB-283] - Support Attributes input for DicomImageReader
    * [LIB-286] - Support source device specific Attribute Coercion Rules
    * [LIB-287] - Support source device specific Compression Rules
    * [LIB-290] - add DicomConfigurationBuilder.persistDefaults(boolean)
    * [LIB-301] - Support Value Representation Unlimited Characters (UC) according CP 1031
    * [LIB-302] - Create Value Representation Universal Resource Identifier or Universal Resource Locator (UR) according CP 1324 
    * [LIB-309] - Prefer TLS over non-TLS Connections by ApplicationEntity.findCompatibleConnection((ApplicationEntity)
    * [LIB-311] - Provide method Attributes.containsTimezoneOffsetFromUTC()
    * [LIB-312] - Do not apply time zone conversion to Patient Birth Date and Time, Context Group Version and Context Group Local Version
    * [LIB-313] - Allow WADO-RS Tool to generate separate metadata/response files
    * [LIB-314] - Support to specify DA/TM attribute pairs for private attributes
    * [LIB-315] - Fragments support for stowrs tool
    * [LIB-317] - Pack VR lookup table to 1/4
    * [LIB-320] - allow to change query level in the query test tool



** New Feature
    * [LIB-206] - Migrate Jpg2Dcm tool from dcm4che2
    * [LIB-279] - Provide LRU  File Cache
    * [LIB-292] - Provide DICOM Dictionary as a tool
    * [LIB-304] - Provide a tool to generate dummy DICOM data
    * [LIB-305] - Support to store Attributes without Bulk Data
    * [LIB-321] - Support to encode references to Bulk Data in Data Sets in binary format





** Story
    * [LIB-260] - GUI - customizability
    * [LIB-294] - GUI - Editing of all device/extension-level fields, collections, maps
    * [LIB-296] - GUI - modularity

** Task
    * [LIB-269] - Refactor last UI propotype to use json-schema
    * [LIB-288] - add LDAP attribute type dcmModality
    * [LIB-297] - Upgrade to DICOM 2015a release
    * [LIB-319] - basic C-Store SCU service
    * [LIB-339] - release dcm4che 3.3.6