0.18.0

Changed

• Require pydicom 3.0.1 or higher (#168)
• Drop support for Python 3.9 (#168)
• Drop support for Python 3.8 (#168)

New

• Support Python 3.12 (#168)

Changed

• Anonymization failure cites BytesIO object instead of input filename (#159)

0.17.0

New

• Retain selected elements' original values using --keep <tag_name>.
  The argument may be repeated to retain multiple elements' values.
  Elements are identified by name (e.g. "PatientName", "StudyDate") or by
  hexadecimal tag value (e.g. "0010,0010"). (#155)
• Anonymizer.add_element_handler allows addition of new element handlers (even custom ones)
  to override existing behavior. (#155)
• New element handler type dicognito.value_keeper.ValueKeeper that will
  keep element values as-is. (#155)
• New --what-if flag shows intended anonymization actions (as appear in the project README)
  (#163)

Fixed

• --output-directory may create duplicate anonymized files (#161)

Additional Items

• Format code using Ruff (#156)

0.16.0

Changed

• Drop support for Python 3.7 (#151)
• Require pydicom 2.3.1 or higher (#136)

New

• Officially support Python 3.11 (#136)
• Complete list of attribute changes now listed in README (#140)

Fixed

• Version table format has bad separator (#147)
• Private creator 0031,0020 breaks anonymization (#157)

0.16.0a1

Changed

• Require pydicom 2.3.1 or higher (#136)

New

• Officially support Python 3.11 (#136)
• Complete list of attribute changes now listed in README (#140)

0.15.0

Changed

• If neither --in-place/-i or --output-directory/-o are specified on the command line, a
  warning will be printed (#134)

  The anonymization will proceed as if --in-place/-i were specified.
  A future release will require that one of the options be specified.

New

• --in-place/-i flag added to explicitly specify in place editing of source files (#134)

  It's an error to specify both --in-place/-i and --output-directory/-o.

0.14.0

Changed

• Now assuming DA fields are 8 characters long (#123)
• Summary formatted as GitHub Flavored Markdown (#125)
• Anonymized UI values are now consistent between runs if the same seed is supplied (#126)

0.13.0

New

• Command line options define how to detect and handle burned-in annotations in source (#44, #113):

  dicognito --assume-burned-in-annotation if-yes --on-burned-in-annotation warn  # default
  dicognito --assume-burned-in-annotation unless-no
  dicognito --assume-burned-in-annotation never
  dicognito --on-burned-in-annotation fail

• Indicate filename when anonymization fails (#120)
• Officially support Python 3.10 (#115)

Fixed

• Fails to anonymize LEI file with Mitra global patient ID when using pydicom 2.2.x (#118)

Additional Items

• Add type hints, per PEP 484 (#111)
• Remove Python 2.7 shims (#105)

With special thanks for contributions to this release from:

• justineclin 🥇

0.12.0

New

• Officially support Python 3.9 (#99)
• Command line flag --version also outputs environmental info and pydicom version (#103)

Fixed

• Unable to anonymize dataset with encapsulated pixel data that contains embedded sequence delimiter (#96)

0.11.0

New

• Officially support Linux (tested on Ubuntu) (#85)

Changed

• Require pydicom 2.0.0 or higher (#92)

Fixed

• Deflated files are corrupt when anonymized from the command line (#80)
• Date/time offset is not always the same for a given seed (#86)
• Anonymizing dataset with StationName but no Modality fails (#97)

0.10.0

New

• Test on Python 3.8 as well as 3.7

Fixed

• Same patient names anonymize differently when formatted differently (#78)