June 25, 2011 - Version 8.60 (production release)
- Added Composite Flash tag to facilitate copying of flash information between
XMP and EXIF
- Added new Pentax and Canon LensType values and fixed a Pentax lens name
- Added a few new Leica LensType's (thanks Olaf Ulrich)
- Added a new PentaxModelID
- Enhanced GPSDateStamp conversion to tolerate null separators (Casio EX-H20G)
- Made DNG LinearizationCurve and Nikon ContrastCurve writable but protected
- Renamed Nikon LinearizationTable to NEFLinearizationTable and made writable
but protected
- Removed Leica M8 FrameSelector tag since it seems to have evolved into an
extension of the LensType tag for newer lenses
- Fixed problem with order of operations when using multiple -if options
June 11, 2011 - Version 8.59
- Added new Composite:LensID derived from XMP-aux:LensID
- Added new PentaxModelID and CanonModelID values
- Added a new Pentax LensType (thanks Artur)
- Decode maker notes in Pentax Optio S1 AVI videos
- Extract PreviewWMF from DOCX files
- Recognize WMF images
- Fixed decoding of CanonVRD WBAdjRGBLevels and renamed to WBAdjRGGBLevels
June 2, 2011 - Version 8.58
- Decode a number of CameraInfo tags for the Canon EOS 600D and 1100D
- Improved speed by a factor of 2 when reading M2TS videos
- Fixed memory leak with -stay_open feature when writing
May 26, 2011 - Version 8.57
- Added a couple of new Canon LensType values
- Added a few new Nikon LensID's (thanks Robert Rottmerhusen)
- Added format string to -v2 output for IPTC tags
- Added extra logic to avoid misidentifying unknown IFD-style maker notes
- Decode custom settings for Nikon D700 and D7000
- Fixed problem recognizing NikonCaptureData for ViewNX version 2.1.1
Apr. 16, 2011 - Version 8.56
- Added a new Canon LensType (thanks Rodolfo Borges)
- Decode EXIF information in FujiFilm HS20EXR MOV videos
- Decode NikonCaptureEditVersions when ExtractEmbedded option is used
(previously called NikonCaptureHistory)
- Decode another Samsung tag (thanks Tae-Sun Park)
- Recognize CaptureOne ".newer" COS files
- Reverted JSON output to pre-8.51 behaviour by removing '#' suffix from tag
names when print conversion is disabled on a per-tag basis
- Fixed bug introduced in 8.32 interpreting some expressions when copying tags
Apr. 11, 2011 - Version 8.55
- Added write support for FujiFilm RAF version 0716 images
- Added support for a number of new LR3 XMP tags (thanks Wolfgang Guelcker)
- Decode some more Samsung tags (thanks Tae-Sun Park)
- Improved handling of incorrectly formatted XMP
- Recognize a few alternate PS and EPS file extensions (thanks Jeff Harmon)
- Reverted a few Pentax macro lens names (less consistent, but at least they
match the official Pentax names)
- Fixed problem reading some XMP custom properties
- Fixed minor problem in HtmlDump output for Canon MakerNotes footer
Apr. 2, 2011 - Version 8.54
- Added a number of new values for various tags
- Added a new Nikon LensID
- Decode a number of encrypted Samsung SRW tags (thanks Tae-Sun Park)
- Enhanced -s option so allow a number to be specified
- Fixed problem reading some Casio EX-Z35 MakerNote values
Mar. 27, 2011 - Version 8.53
- Added a new Olympus LensType
- Added a new Nikon LensID
- Added a new PentaxModelID value
- Decode new Pentax MakerNotes format of Optio WG-1 GPS
- Decode Casio, Ricoh and Sanyo face detection information (thanks Jeffrey
Friedl and Emilio for samples)
- Decode FujiFilm face recognition information (thanks Jeffrey Friedl)
- Decode a new FujiFilm tag for GE models
- Allow writing GPSLatitudeRef/GPSLongitudeRef with a signed number
- Return proper FileType for M4P audio files
- Combined Canon FaceDetectFrameWidth/FaceDetectFrameHeight tags into
FaceDetectFrameSize for consistency with other makes
- API Changes:
- Fixed problem when specifying family 1 group in call to SetNewValue()
when tags were previously extracted with ExtractInfo()
Mar. 20, 2011 - Version 8.52
- Added -listr option and mechanism to recognize some unsupported file types
- Added read support for VSD (Microsoft Visio Drawing) files
- Added a new Pentax LensType and improved consistency of macro lens names
- Added another CanonModelID
- Calculate Duration for M2TS (AVCHD) videos
- Decode a new FujiFilm tag
- Recognize .TS extension
- Recognize FotoStation IPTC record 240
- Attempt to better identify FPX-format MSOffice documents with incorrect file
extensions
- Fixed bug applying time shift to Nikon PowerUpTime
- API Changes:
- Enhanced GetNewValues() to allow group name to be specified
- Allow description flag to be set to '0' when calling GetFileType() to
return types of recognized-yet-unsupported files
Mar. 12, 2011 - Version 8.51
- Added -csv option for import/export of CSV database files
- Added ability to import JSON files
- Added read support for APP1 "Ocad" segment
- Added a new Nikon LensID (thanks Robert Rottmerhusen)
- Decode more Reconyx MakerNotes tags (thanks Robert Hass of Reconyx!)
- Report the number of encryption bits in the PDF:Encryption tag value
- Allow empty group name when specifying a tag
- Improved decoding of Olympus ArtFilter and MagicFilter tags
- Improved exception handling to continue with next -execute command after
aborting a command due to a serious error
- Fixed problem reading indexed PGF images
to trigger/signal a rebuild for the transition 5.10.1 -> 5.12.1.
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sno@ was right after all, obache@ kindly asked and he@ led the
way. Thanks!
this commit moves from 8.24 (a non-production release which upstream
has requested we don't package) to 8.25.
Changes 8.15 to 8.25 are many minor bug fixes and improvements.
* Added ability to write some Kodak APP3 Meta tags
* Added a few new Olympus LensType's and new values for a couple of other tags
* Added support for yet another Kodak MakerNote variation (M580)
* Added conversion for OOXML DocSecurity tag (thanks Jeff Harmon)
* Added another Nikon ExternalFlashFlags value (thanks Warren Hatch)
* Decode more Canon VRD tags (thanks Gert Kello) and changed some tag names
* Decode a couple of new Canon 7D tags (thanks Vesa Kivisto)
* Decode a few more Sigma tags
* Decode HTML tags written by Microsoft Office
* Decode some MakerNotes tags from Samsung MP4 videos
* Allow RFC 8601 date/time values to be written without seconds
* Fixed conversion for Kodak Meta:SerialNumber
* Changed conversion of Canon FocusDistanceUpper/Lower tags to add units (m)
* Changed the names of some Nikon FlashExposureComp tags
* Changed name of RTF CharactersNoWhiteSpace tag to CharactersWithSpaces to
conform with what Microsoft does with their software as opposed to what they
say in their RTF specification
* Changed a few FlashPix tags for better consistency with OOXML and RTF
* Properly convert OOXML Unicode character entities
* Fixed problem writing some Sigma MakerNote tags
* Fixed problem writing incorrect value for "Uncalibrated" XMP:ColorSpace
* Fixed bug where some unknown Canon values were extracted twice with -U
- API Changes:
- Enhanced GetFileType() to return descriptions for more file types
- Fixed "-TAG-= -TAG=VALUE" syntax to work with shiftable (date/time) tags
and tags with conversions
- Enhanced Geosync tag to allow GPS time-drift correction
- API Changes:
- Added CharsetID3 option
- Changed name of IPTCCharset option to CharsetIPTC (but IPTCCharset may
still be used for backward compatibility)
momentous, it does not appear to be significant.)
Many minor fixes and enhancements. Notable entries:
- Added new Geosync tag to allow geotagging of images with timestamps which
are not pre-synchronized to GPS time
- Changed conversion of Canon MeasuredEV to correspond more closely to
LightValue (by adding 5 to the MeasuredEV value, which seems to be good for
all EOS models, but it may be high by up to 1 EV for some PowerShot models)
- IMPORTANT: Not quite done with NRW fixes -- fixed similar bug which could
corrupt NRW images when writing new values larger than 10 MB
- IMPORTANT: Fixed bug introduced in version 7.77 which causes Nikon NRW
images to be corrupted when writing
- API Changes:
- Added support for reading Garmin TCX track logs with the -geotag option
- Decode Nikon D300 firmware 1.10 camera settings (thanks Stuart Solomon)
- Improved geotagging by allowing different NMEA sentences with slightly
different timestamps (within 10 seconds) in the same fix
[Assorted other changes; see "Changes" in source]
- Added support for DNG version 1.3
- API Changes:
- Improved handling of $/ by localizing internally
- Added ability to geotag with KML files (Note: each Placemark must contain a
TimeStamp for this to work)
- Added -struct option for JSON (-j) and XML (-X) outputs
- Added ability to specify geotagging parameters via config file
- API Changes:
- Added GeoMaxHDOP, GeoMaxPDOP, GeoMaxIntSecs and GeoMaxExtSecs options
- API Changes:
- Changed WriteInfo() to use a temporary file instead of a memory buffer
when a source file name is given with no destination file
- Attempt (yet again) to fix problems when UTF-8 encoded strings are
passed to exiftool functions
- Added geotagging feature and new -geotag option (guess who finally bought a
hand-held GPS!)
- IMPORTANT: Fixed bug introduced in version 7.01 which could cause corruption
of TIFF-format images in very rare situations when adding tags to an image
containing very large (> 10 MB) binary data blocks
- Enhanced -listx option to give short output when used after -s
- Included 2 new argument files in distribution: xmp2gps.args and gps2xmp.args
- Prevent writing of TIFF images containing the obsolete (and unsupported)
TIFF 6.0 JPEG extensions
Many minor changes omitted. Highlights:
- Added read support for Panasonic RW2 raw images (and extract meta
information from embedded PreviewImage as Doc1)
- Recognize DCP (DNG Camera Profile) files
- Added read/write support for EXIF files
- Added ability to write EXIF as a block (finally!)
- Decode CameraOrientation for a number of Canon EOS models (thanks Bogdan)
Oct. 27, 2008 - Version 7.51 (production release)
- API Changes:
- Added ExtractEmbedded option
- Added support for XMP PRISM 2.0 schema tags
- Added -X option to output extracted information in XML format
- API Changes:
- Fixed CanWrite() to be consistent with documentation
- Added support for new XMP IPTC Extension 1.0 tags (rev 2)
- Added new Composite LensID tag and changed a number of LensType values in
an attempt to disambiguate Canon, Pentax, Minolta and Sony 3rd party lenses
- API Changes:
- Added ListSep option
- API Changes:
- Added ability to pass options to SetNewValuesFromFile
- WARNING: Older ExifTool versions will not properly rewrite DNG 1.2 images
which contain multiple color profiles
- Added DNGVersion check to avoid future problems with major DNG revisions
- Added support for new DNG version 1.2.0.0 tags
- Decode Nikon Capture NX 2 NikonICCProfile information (thanks Jens Duttke)
to trigger/signal a rebuild for the transition 5.8.8 -> 5.10.0.
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May 31, 2008 - Version 7.30 (production release)
- Added new Canon CustomFunctions values from the EOS 1DmkIII firmware update,
and a new CanonExposureMode value (thanks David Pitcher)
- Added ability to read/write XMP in GIF images
- Added ability to write to GIF87a images (by upgrading them to GIF89a)
- API Changes:
- Extract FileSize information from images passed as a scalar reference
- API Changes:
- Fixed CanCreate so it returns false for non-writable TIFF-based files
- Fixed bug introduced in 7.18 which caused "Error parsing XMP" warning when
deleting all XMP and writing new XMP tags in the same step
- Fixed bug where IFD0 could be deleted when writing JPEG with a bad IFD1
- Fixed problem extracting some writable directories as a block
- Fixed bug which could cause "Not an ARRAY" error when reading PDF files
Mar. 12, 2008 - Version 7.21 (production release)
- Added support for Leica M8 maker notes (in both DNG and JPEG images)
- Added ability to write encrypted Nikon makernote information (!!)
- Fixed decoding of Nikon D3 color balance information
- Decode AFPointsUsed for Nikon D3 and D300 (thanks Jens Duttke)
[many minor changes]
Feb. 5, 2008 - Version 7.15 (production release)
- API Changes:
- Also allow File::RandomAccess reference as argument to ImageInfo()
- Added -T option (equivalent to -t -S -q -f)
[many small fixes and improvements omitted; see Changes file.]
- API Changes:
- Changed WriteInfo() behaviour to be more consistent when editing file in
place and a new FileName is specified (original file is now deleted)
- Improved warning message when trying to write an 'unsafe' tag
- API Changes:
- Added option to allow makernote block to be extracted without rebuilding
plus hundreds more; see Changes in $WRKSRC.
Many minor changes omitted; intermediate changelogs combined.
- Added read support for DOC, XLS and PPT documents
- Updated GeoTiff support for new definitions in libgeotiff-1.2.3
- Added ability to write certain EXIF tags (ie. UserComment) as Unicode
- Added ability to read/write MIE trailers in JPEG and TIFF images
- Added Nikon ImageAuthentication tag (thanks Jeffrey Friedl)
- API Changes:
- GetFileType() may now also be used to return a file description
- Added read support for a number of audio file formats: Ogg Vorbis,
Ogg FLAC, FLAC, APE (Monkey's Audio) and MPC (Musepack)
- Improved parsing of ID3 v2.3 and v2.4 information
- Added read/write support for Canon VRD (Recipe Data) files and trailers
- Improved handling of trailers in JPEG and TIFF-format images:
- Fixed bug when re-writing NEF files which caused new preview image written
by Nikon Capture 4.4.0 to be lost
- Added ability to create JFIF segment
- Re-worked Sony and Minolta LensID lists and added a number of new lenses
- Added ability to delete a group and write back information in one step
- Compatibility warning: This changes previous behaviour when adding and
deleting information in the same operation if new tag values are set
after a group has been flagged for deletion
- Decode Sony LensID's (thanks Thomas Bodenmann)
- Added shortcut MakerNotes tag to represent the maker notes tags from all
manufacturers (useful when copying tags between files)
[many minor changes; see Changes in source]
- Renamed Canon AFPointsUsed20D to AFPointsUsed and decode for 30D and 400D
- Added new Canon AutoISO tag, renamed Canon:ISO tag to ShotISO, and added a
new composite ISO tag to give the ISO that was actually used
- Decode a number of new values for FujiFilm PictureMode (thanks Michael
Meissner)
- Added support for Nikon D80 lens information and recognize a new lens
(thanks Robert Rottmerhusen)
Changes in ${WRKSRC}.
- Improved decoding of Canon PictureStyle information
- Decode a number of new tags in Canon, Casio, FujiFilm, Minolta, Nikon,
Panasonic, Pentax, Ricoh and Sony and maker notes
- Improved recognition of various Minolta maker note formats
- Added a number of new Nikon Capture tags
- API Changes:
- Added FastScan option
- Return "0000:00:00 00:00:00" instead of "1970:01:01 00:00:00" as the string
representation of numerical times with a value of zero
- Added read support for Real audio/video (RA, RM, RV, RMVB, RAM, RPM) files
- Added read support for SWF (Shockwave Flash) files
- Fixed problem with rpmbuild on Mandriva 2006.0 (thanks Niels Kristian)
- Improvements to Nikon AF point decoding (thanks Roger Larsson)
- Made FileName and Directory writable (enabling a whole new functionality!)
- Made Rotation writable in CRW images
- Improved JPEG writer to tolerate any segment ordering
- Added ability to write ICC_Profile data as a block
- Added read/write support for ICC and ICM color profile files
- API Changes:
- Added ability to prefix tag name with group in arguments to ImageInfo()
(read/write symmetry is now improved since this feature already existed
in the write routines, and now group names can be used in shortcuts)
- Changed order of filtering for Group# option and tag exclusions to be
applied after extracting tags specified in calls to ImageInfo()
- Added -overwrite_original_in_place option
- Added a number of new XMP tags and bring XMP support up to new
specification, plus a few undocumented XMP-aux tags (thanks Lou Salkind)
- Added ability to decode DNGMakerNotes
- Added back RedBalance and BlueBalance as composite tags
Feb. 19, 2006 - Version 6.00 (production release)
[minor changes omitted -gdt]
- Added read support for Sony SR2 raw images (but most tags still unknown)
- Added read support for Kyocera Contax N Digital RAW images
- Added ability to write or delete shortcuts which reference multiple tags
(previously only shortcuts referencing a single tag were writable)
- Changed descriptions of FNumber, ExposureTime, ISO, DateTimeOriginal,
CreateDate and ModifyDate to more closely match their tag names
- Separated Canon and Nikon Red/BlueBalance information into individual
components with tag names like WB_RGGBLevels
- Decoded a number of new Canon tags for EOS models, including ColorBalance
tables, 20D AF points and SensorInfo (thanks Rainer Honle)
- Fixed incorrect decoding of EOS 10D/300D color balance modes
- Set MIME type for all RAW image formats to "image/x-raw"
- The -f option is no longer implied when -S and -s are combined
- Fixed problem with validation of Canon PictureInfo for images rotated by
Canon ZoomBrowser EX (thanks Joshua Bixby)
[prior non-production release notes merged]
- Major additions to Canon maker note decoding, including EOS-1D personal
functions (thanks Rainer Honle for decoding many 5D tags)
- Enhanced FMT syntax for -o, -w and -tagsFromFile options
- Decode maker notes of Samsung DX-1S
- Added ability to list tags in a specific group
- Added support for Canon 5D custom functions (thanks Rainer Honle)
- Added support for Canon 1DmkII and 350D custom functions
- Decode AIFF SampleRate
- Properly identify CR2 images read via pipes (previously identified as TIFF)
- Improved formatting of printed values for some DNG tags
- Fixed problem extracting OriginalRawImage from little-endian DNG images
- Fixed problem where "unreferenced bytes" error could be incorrectly issued
when deleting all EXIF from a TIFF image
- Added ability to write JFIF information
- Added ability to extract and decompress original raw image from DNG
- Added read support for AIFF audio files
- API changes:
- SetNewValue() now accepts an ARRAY reference for setting list-type tags
such as Keywords, or a SCALAR reference for binary data, so it may now
be called directly with any value returned by GetValue().
- Recognize Panasonic Type 2 maker notes
- Changed Nikon LensID to a composite tag to allow better decoding of
non-Nikon lenses, and added a bunch of new lenses to the list
- Added ability to read and write AFCP information in JPEG images
- Added read support for WMV video and WMA audio files (ASF format files)
- Added EXIF tags 0x82a5-0x82ac
- Added support for JVC maker notes
- Extract a number of new DNG tags plus DNG JPEG preview image
- Added support for AVI and MP4 videos
- Improved decoding of Olympus maker notes
- Improved APP12 decoding
- Improved CanonPictureInfo validation to work with more PowerShot models
- Decode maker notes of Nikon D1
- Combining -t with -S now gives a single-line tab-delimited list of values
- Extract preview image for Samsung Digimax i5
- Added support for JVC maker notes
- Extract a number of new DNG tags plus DNG JPEG preview image
- Added support for AVI and MP4 videos
- Decode maker notes of Nikon D-1
- Combining -t with -S now gives a single-line tab-delimited list of values
- Fixed problem deleting entire XMP data block using '-xmp=' syntax
- Added -F option to allow maker notes offsets to be fixed
- Added -htmlDump option to generate a verbose HTML-based hex dump of EXIF
and/or TIFF information (cool new diagnostic tool)
- Improved synthetic maker notes when coping tags from CRW file
- API changes:
- Added HtmlDump and TextOut options
- Fixed bug which caused error rewriting Minolta MRW images
- Changed writing of TIFF so that existing IPTC will be rewritten as int32u
whenever IPTC is edited, regardless of original format type. This allows
files to be 'fixed' even if IPTC was previously another format (now we get
to see if there is any software out there that barfs on int32u's...)
- Changed the -s option so tag names are displayed instead of descriptions
(now similar to the -S option, but values are aligned in a column)
- Changed writing of new TIFF IPTC information to make it visible in Nikon
Capture (for some reason requires int32u format)
