Version 0.9.5
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pydicom 0.9.5 is primarily a bug-fix release but includes some contrib files
also.

Major fixes in this release
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* fix for incorrect pixel integer types which could lead to numeric errors
  (issue 79)
* By default an InvalidDicomError will be raised when trying to read a
  non-DICOM file (unless read_file keyword arg {{{force}}} is True) (revision
  fc790f01f5)
* fix recursion error on private data elements (issue 81, issue 84)

Other fixes in this release
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* Fix for unicode decode failing with VM > 1 (issue 78)
* fix for fail of DicomIter on files with Explicit VR Transfer Syntax UID
  (issue 82)
* Fix for Python 2.5 and 'with' statement (revision 1c32791bf0)
* Handle 'OB/OW' VR as well as 'OW/OB' (revision e3ee934bbc)
* Fix dataset.get(tag) so returns same as dataset[tag] (issue 88)

New 'Contrib' files
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* dicom_dao.py by Mike Wallace -- CouchDB storage of DICOM info and binary data
* pydicom_series.py by Almar Klein -- Reads files and separates into distinct
  series.

Other
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* switch to Distribute for packaging
* preliminary work on Python 3 compatibility
* preliminary work on using sphinx for documentation
* preliminary work on better writing of files from scratch
