DicomEdit 6.8 Release Notes

DicomEdit 6.8 is backwards compatible with all version 6 releases. All previous 6.x scripts should work unchanged.

Bugfixes:

DE-179: Fixed writing values to sequence (VR=SQ) tags. DicomObjectFactory now skips value assignment for SQ-typed elements rather than writing a malformed value.
DE-181: Fixed NullPointerException in lowercase[] function when applied to a tag with a null value. Also hardened BaseScriptApplicator and SerialScriptApplicator against null tag values in the same path.
DE-184: Improved TagPath matching performance by replacing regex comparisons with equals/contains/indexOf where the pattern is a fixed string.
XNAT-8327: Fixed end-line comment removal. The previous ANTLR parse-tree-based approach could mishandle URLs and other strings containing //. Replaced with a string-function implementation that correctly preserves // inside quoted strings.
XNAT-8330: Improved parser robustness by switching ANTLR prediction mode from LL(*) to SLL first, falling back to LL(*) only on ambiguity. Reduces parse time for typical scripts and avoids edge-case prediction failures.
XNAT-8391: AnonymizationResult now releases its reference to the underlying DicomObjectI after the anonymized file is written, reducing peak heap usage during bulk anonymization.

DE-170: Cleaned up POM dependency management.
DE-172: Expanded test coverage for dcm4che2-dependent behavior.
DE-174/175/176: Expanded BaseMizerService and DicomObjectFactory test coverage.
DE-179: Added test coverage for sequence tag value representations.
DE-180: Added DicomObjectI unit tests and javadoc.
XNAT-8443: Removed .gitlab-ci.yml (CI configuration migrated elsewhere).