# Version 0.9.6

pydicom 0.9.6 updates the dictionary to the DICOM 2011 standard, and has a number of bug fixes

## Major changes

- updated the dictionary to the DICOM 2011 standard’s dictionary.

## Bug fixes

- Fixed bug in Dataset.file_metadata() and deprecated in favor of FileDataset (issue 93)

- Fixed UID comparisons against non-string values (issue 96)

- catch exceptions on reading undefined length private data elements (issue 91, issue 97)

- Fixed bug in raising exception for unknown tag

## Other

- added example file write_new.py to show how to create DICOM files from scratch

- updated other example files

- more PEP-8 style changes