ExifTool Version History

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Note: The most recent production release is Version 13.10. (Other versions are considered development releases, and are not uploaded to MetaCPAN.)

• Added warnings for out-of-order entries in 'iinf' and 'ipma' boxes of HEIC images
• Added support for date/time formatting codes %f and %z in the inverse print conversion when writing tags
• Updated Geolocation databases from current geonames.org files
• Improved verbose output to show values stored with construction method 1 in MP4-based files
• Enhanced the date/time timezone format specifier %z so that %:z returns the time zone with a colon separator (eg. "-05:00")
• Fixed bug where the existing tag wasn't being removed when writing a new value for an Unknown QuickTime UserData or ItemList tag

• Added a new QuickTime tag (thanks Matti)
• Added a missing format check on a few tags when writing
• Decode a couple of new ICC_Profile tags
• Patched HEIC writer so newly added XMP or EXIF refers to the 'tmap' item as well as the primary item of an HDRGainMap image (since iPhone 15 and 16 do it this way)
• Fixed compatibility issue where Apple Preview would no longer show the gain map image after adding new XMP to an HEIC with an HDR gain map

• Decode ShutterCount for Canon EOS R6 Mark II (thanks Agoston Kapitany)
• Decode a few new Photoshop tags
• Suppress all duplicate Warning tags and add count to end of message
• Changed format of bitmask keys in -listx output
• Internal streamlining of LIGOGPSINFO decoding
• Fixed issue where some tags were incorrectly shown as writable in -listx output
• Fixed incorrect scaling for GPSSpeed in one LIGOGPSINFO variant
• Fixed an issue with filename encoding when the -L option is used and the API WindowsLongPath option is active

• Decode a number of LIGOGPSINFO encrypted and enciphered timed GPS types (long overdue, but it took me a couple of years to acquire enough sample videos to have a good cross-section of the different formats)
• Fixed another place where FileSequence could be incremented twice when a -if condition was used
• Fixed a few places where character 0x7f may not have been escaped in string values
• API Changes:
  • Changed default WindowsLongPath option back to 1 after adding a patch to fix issue with piping from stdin

• Decode timed metadata from MP4 videos of yet another dashcam model
• Patched issue where FileSequence could increment twice for each file when a -if condition was used
• API Changes:
  • Revert default WindowsLongPath option to the pre-13.05 setting until we can solve the pipe problem

• Added a new SonyModelID
• Added support for XMP HDRGainMap and apdi namespaces
• Decode DJI timed djmd and dbgi protobuf-format metadata
• Decode APP10 AROT HDRGainCurve and APP2 URN UniformResourceName
• Decode a couple of new GoPro tags
• API Changes:
  • Changed default WindowsLongPath option to 1 (please report if this causes any problems)

• Added the ability to write GPSDOP and GPSMeasureMode from the -geotag option if hdop or pdop information exists in the input track file
• Added a few new Canon RFLensTypes (thanks Norbert Wasser)
• Decode timed GPS from GoPro Hero 13 videos
• Improved writing of GPSDestLatitudeRef and GPSDestLongitudeRef tags to allow signed numbers to be written in the same way as GPSLatitudeRef and GPSLongitudeRef
• Warn if using an Image::ExifTool library that doesn't match the application version
• Renamed an Unknown Photoshop tag
• Convert GoPro GPSSpeed and GPSSpeed3D from m/s to km/h
• Patched to tolerate XML header in DOCX xml files
• Fixed incorrect file offsets for tags in some embedded files of -htmldump output
• Fixed -htmldump output to show the same names for unknown EXIF tags as with the -u option

• Added ability to include or exclude tags from CSV and JSON imports (-csv=CSVFILE and -json=JSONFILE) by adding -TAG or --TAG options
• Added read/delete support for SEAL metadata in JPG, TIFF, XMP, PNG, WEBP, HEIC, PPM, MOV and MP4 files, and read support in PDF, MKV and WAV files
• Added support for user-defined application extensions in GIF images
• Added print conversion for QuickTime VideoFullRangeFlag
• Apply API LimitLongValues option to hex field in -j output
• Avoid extracting some large AES-encrypted data from PDF files for performance reasons unless the -m option is used (current limits are 100 kB for XMP and 10 kB for everything else)
• Fixed WindowsLongPath option to support wide characters (thanks Frank B)
• Fixed problem writing ICC_Profile to a GIF image which already had one
• Fixed problem writing Apple:FocusDistanceRange
• API Changes:
  • Enchanced GlobalTimeShift option to allow the base tag to be specified, otherwise use the first specified source date/time tag when copying tags

• Enhanced -j -l output to add optional "fmt" and "hex" fields
• Enhanced -geotag option to support Android "Export Timeline data" JSON format
• Changed ProductVersion of Windows launcher to match ExifTool version
• Patched to use empty group name instead of "Copy0" for family 4 group name of missing tag when the -f option is used
• Patched to avoid showing "Unknown" for group of primary tag when -g4 or -G4 was used with the -j or -csv option
• Patched to avoid using Encode module in Windows because it can hang if run from a working directory with a long path name
• Patched to use -csv output if -j also used
• Fixed a few problems with the new WindowsLongPath option
• Fixed problem setting FileCreateDate with Xcode 16 command line tools if the date/time contains a time zone
• Fixed problem in -csv output when combined with -g
• API Changes:
  • Added SaveBin option

• NOTE: Please test the new API WindowsLongPath option because the idea is to enable this by default if everything works out well
• Fixed bug which could result in runtime warning if when API IgnoreTags option is set to "all" when reading a TXT file format
• Fixed problem reading some information from LNK files
• Fixed verbose output to show "Binary data" message for SCALAR values
• Fixed bug where part of the hex dump from a -v3 output could go to stdout instead of the file specified by a -w option
• API Changes:
  • Added WindowsLongPath option for testing
  • Changed CharsetFileName option to automatically assume UTF8 if the file name contains special characters and is valid UTF8

• Added support for reading GPS from Autel Evo II drone videos
• Added a new PhaseOne RawFormat value
• Updated XMP-exifEX tags, exif2xmp.args and xmp2exif.args according to the 2024 EXIF for XMP specification
• Updated Geolocation databases from current geonames.org files
• Updated the MIME types for a couple of font formats
• Enhanced -diff option to work with -ec (C-style escape of special chars)
• Changed name of EXIF Title tag to ImageTitle to correspond with specifiation
• Reverted a geotag warning message to remove debugging information that was added in version 12.67 and moved this information into a -v3 verbose message
• Patched Perl bug which gave "Can't spawn" warning in Windows if control-C was pressed while displaying the exiftool application help
• Fixed API StructFormat JSONQ setting to properly quote values in structures
• Fixed incorrect AudioStreamType for M2TS videos containing a PGS stream
• Fixed -diff option so "same tags" messages are only shown when -v is added (as per the documentation)

• Added -diff option to compare the metadata in two files
• Added a new Canon lens (thanks Norbert Wasser)
• Decode GPS from 70mai A810 dashcam videos
• Decode a new QuickTime tag
• Patched to recognize C2PA APP11 JUMBF header with incorrect byte order written by buggy Microsoft software
• Patched to maintain order of entries in a JSON object when reading
• Patched to maintain order of CSV columns when setting tags from a CSV file
• Patched to maintain order of XMP lang-alt entries when writing/copying
• Fixed typo in an APP12 tag name
• API Changes:
  • Structured values returned as HASH references with the Struct option may contain a new "_ordered_keys_" entry used to preserve the order of the entries
  • Added the OrderedKeys method to return the ordered or sorted keys from a returned structure value

• Added write support for PDF files with huge offsets
• Added a number of new Sony LensType values (thanks Jos Roost)
• Require -v4 or higher to output "JPG RST" lines
• Patched problem with -fast option when reading HEIC file via a pipe
• Patched to avoid hang when reading some corrupted XMP

• Added ability to ignore up to 4095 bytes of garbage at the end of an INDD file with the -m option
• Added a new Canon RFLensType value (thanks Norbert Wasser)
• Added a new Nikon Z LensID
• Decode a number of new Nikon Z6_3 tags (thanks Warren Hatch)
• Decode a few more FujiFilm tags (thanks Greybeard)
• Enhanced %C format code to allow file-name collisions to be avoided by using a colon instead of a decimal in the format modifier
• Fixed bug which could result in hang when using %C code in an output file name

• More improvements to handling of trailers on video files (and add ability to write videos which have an unknown trailer)
• Fixed problem geotagging from some newer Google Takeout files

• Added a couple of new CanonModelID values
• Decode ColorData for a couple of new Canon models
• Fixed problem writing video files which have some known trailer types

• Added ability to geotag from new-format Google Takeout JSON files
• Added a few new Android and Xiaomi QuickTime Keys tags
• Added ability to read C2PA JUMBF metadata from TTF/OTF files
• Internal changes to code for creating new directories
• Changed Windows packages to have the application help text file in the exiftool_files folder instead of writing it to a temporary directory
• Removed new QuickTime Keys tags added in 12.93 because these aren't used in top-level metadata (written to the video track by Apple devices)
• Fixed the group names for synthesized default-language QuickTime tags and added a verbose message when generating these tags
• Fixed warning in Geolocation.t self test

• Added a new Nikon LensID
• Added a couple of new OpenEXR Compression types
• Added a couple of new QuickTime Keys tags
• Decode timed metadata from E-ACE B44 dashcam videos
• Made "Unrecognized" Samsung Meta warnings minor
• Fixed bug in -listg6 option which resulted in "uninitialized value" warnings
• Fixed decoding of Func1Button and Func2Button for the Nikon Z6/Z7
• Fixed bug reading JUMB metadata from JXL images

• Removed -w from exiftool shebang due to compatibility issues on some systems

• Added a couple of new OpenEXR Compression values (github#276)
• Updated 2 test files that were causing failed tests (ExifTool itself is unchanged)

• Added support for reading Samsung trailer from PNG images
• Decode two more formats of timed GPS from MP4 videos
• Decode a few more Samung trailer tags (thanks Neal Krawetz)
• Decode Canon AntiFlicker tag
• Drop Nikon ShotInfo record when copying MakerNotes from NEF to JPG if it is larger than 50000 bytes (then MakerNotes would be too large for a single JPEG segment)
• Changed exiftool shebang to use env: "#!/usr/bin/env perl -w"
• Revert change of 12.84 to iterate through sub-documents with the -p option only if -ee is used

• Added new Sony lenses and updated decoding of some tags (thanks Jos Roost)
• Minor change to description of NKA files
• Fixed Archive::Zip problem in Windows executable version

• NOTE: The install procedure for the Windows executable has changed!
• Windows EXE version now uses Oliver Betz's bundle with Strawberry Perl and comes in 32- and 64-bit versions
• MacOS distribution now uses a flattened package
• Added ability to read/write deflate-compressed XMP in HEIC files
• Added a new Canon LensType (thanks Norbert Wasser)
• Added a new XMP-GCamera tag (thanks Herb)
• Added a new Nikon LensID
• Added a few new Canon AFAreaMode values (thanks Wernfried)
• Added config_files/onone.config to the distribution
• Decode timed accelerometer readings from NextBase 622GW videos
• Decode Pentax K-3III CameraOrentation (thanks Peter)
• Improved German translation for LensModel
• Enhanced the API StructFormat JSONQ setting to quote all JSON values, even if they aren't in a structure
• Changed -geolocate option so specifying the Keys group writes Keys:GPSPosition only if an input city is specified, and Keys:LocationName only for input GPS coordinates
• Tweaked API Geolocation option recognized space-separated lat/lon even when there is no decimal point in the numbers
• API Changes:
  • Changed LargeFileSupport default to 2 and added a warning if a large chunk is encountered. Set to 1 to avoid the warning.

• Added ability to write Google Container XMP tags (using the namespace prefix 'GContainer' to avoid conflict with the Google Device Container prefix)
• Decode a few new tags for the Canon EOS R5 (thanks John Moyer)
• Decode battery information for the Pentax K-3 III (thanks Peter)
• Decode RAFCompression from FujiFilm RAF images (thanks Albert Shan)
• Avoid reporting FileSize for pipes
• Updated Geolocation databases from current geonames.org files
• Enhanced Geolocation feature to allow lat/lon to be input with a space separator instead of a comma
• Skip over Matroska Cluster if necessary to read Tags when referenced from SeekHead
• Changed conversion for Matroska SeekID (now in hex with tag name in brackets) and SeekPosition (now returns an absolute offset)
• Fixed problem writing XMP-Device:EarthPos coordinates
• Fixed typo in a value of Canon:DigitalLensOptimizer (thanks Martin B.)
• Fixed decoding of Matroska VideoScanType
• Fixed misleading error message when -o option was used to write to an unsupported file type

• Added a new value for a couple of Olympus tags (thanks Herb)
• Improved handling of ID3 user-defined tags
• Decode all JPEG segments from RICO box in Ricoh MOV videos
• Decode a few new values for some tags written by Canon EOS R cameras (thanks John Moyer and Martin B.)
• Patched some Olympus WB_RBLevels tags to allow 4 values to be written as per some newer models
• Fixed issue when writing IPTC date tags with a date/time value containing subseconds with 4 or more digits

• Added GeolocationFeatureType tag
• Added read support for Nikon NKA and NXD adjustment files
• Added a new Apple:ImageCaptureType value, and changed another one
• Decode a few new Pentax tags
• Decode a few new Canon tags
• Decode some Ricoh Exif metadata from MOV videos
• Extract ID3 UserDefinedText and UserDefinedURL tags by name
• Make $advFmtSelf available for user-defined helper functions
• Documented API GeoDir pseudo option feature
• Tolerate pad byte at end of HIF file when writing
• Raised priority of FileName, BaseName, Directory and FileType tags so they don't get hidden by other tags in the file which may have these names
• Changed decoding of QuickTime Rotation (irot) to correspond with EXIF:Orientation (previously this was oddly reported as degrees of counterclockwise rotation)
• Fixed a typo in the print conversion value for a couple of DPX tags
• Fixed problem writing some QuickTime tags with very large (> 16 MB) values
• Fixed bug in build_geolocation utility that resulted in incorrect population numbers when run under ActivePerl

• Added ability to read speed and accuracy_horizontal when geotagging from OpenTracks GPX files
• Decode a few more Apple tags and a new CanonVRD tag
• Enhanced Geolocation feature with the ability to return any number of nearby cities
• Allow coordinates to be entered without comma separator for the Geolocation feature as long as both coordinates have a decimal point
• Changed -p option to iterate through sub-documents if they exist even if -ee isn't used
• Fixed long-standing bug in Windows version that didn't properly handle dates older than 50 years when writing FileModifyDate or FileCreateDate
• Fixed API TimeZone option to work in Windows
• Fixed problem where the SetTags helper function didn't properly copy tags which have print conversions
• Fixed problem where a new subregion couldn't be added through a user-defined Geolocation database entry
• Fixed problem where the API GeolocFeature option didn't work for some features if a user-generated custom database was used

• Added SetTags helper function for use in advanced formatting expressions
• Added a couple of new tags from the DNG 1.7.1 specification
• Added a new Nikon Z lens
• Added a couple of new QuickTime tags
• Added a few more XMP-GCamera tags
• Added build_geolocation utility to the full distribution
• Decode a new CanonVRD tag and rename another one
• Updates to Sony maker note decoding for newer models (thanks Jos Roost)
• Minor change in -p option to avoid adding the trailing newline if the -b option is also used
• Minor changes to GM PDR decoding for Gear and angle measurements
• Removed Geolocation alternate language support from the standard distribution, and added PPLX feature codes
• Set family 1 group name for NextBase 'nbmt' information to "Nextbase"
• Fixed incorrect ID of a DNG tag
• API Changes:
  • Added IgnoreGroups option

• Added support for reading GM PDR data from MP4 videos written by cars such as Corvettes and Cameros
• Added support for reading timed GPS from Wolfbox dashcam videos
• Added "Unknown trailer" to QuickTime warnings originating from an unknown trailer
• Added a new Nikon LensID
• Extract PreviewImage from Chigee AIO-5 dashcam videos
• Changed name and print conversion of a recently added FujiFilm tag
• Only issue "Tag not defined" warnings for the first sub-document when using the -p option
• Fixed a Nikon Z lens name (github #250)
• Fixed Windows version so -sort works properly with -listgeo
• API Changes:
  • Added PrintCSV option for optimized extraction of GM PDR data in CSV format

• Added ability to read EXIF and XMP from EXR images
• Added ability to delete unknown trailer when writing MOV/MP4 videos
• Added ability to write a couple of Stable Diffusion PNG tags
• Added ability to write one of the Microsoft Xtra Description tags (github #248)
• Added support for using alternate city names in reverse Geolocation
• Added support for reading timed GPS from DOD LS600W TS videos
• Added support for new version of Canon DR4 files
• Added a number of new iTunesInfo tags
• Added a new Olympus LensType
• Decode a number of new Nikon tags (thanks Warren Hatch)
• Allow regular expressions to be used when writing Geolocate tag
• Enhanced writing of Geolocate tag to also write Keys:LocationName
• Cache the results of the last reverse geolocation search to speed batch processing when multiple files have the same search parameters
• Patched problem that could cause runtime errors with some invaid tag names
• Fixed a couple of newly added FujiFilm tags
• Fixed decoding of FujiFilm AFAreaZoneSize
• API Changes:
  • Added GeolocAltNames option

• Added GeolocationFeatureCode tag
• Added XMP-acdsee-rs tags and a new XMP-xmpDM tag
• Added ACDSeeRegion2MWGRegion conversion to config_files/acdsee.config
• Added GPSAltitudeRef to XMP-iptcExt LocationDetails structure
• Added a couple of new FujiFilm tags and a new CropMode value
• Added conversion for XMP-aux:ApproximateFocusDistance "infinity"
• Improved Geolocation regular expressions to allow negative matches
• Improved accuracy of Geolocation distance/bearing calculations
• Changed structure of Geolocation database (now version 1.02)
• Minor change to key format for user-defined Geolocation name translations
• Ignore API Geolocation option when copying tags if none of the Geolocation tags are being copied
• Fixed case/spacing of "C2PA" in some CBOR tag descriptions
• Fixed bug extracting binary data from EXR files
• API Changes:
  • Added GeolocFeature option

• Improvements to new Geolocation feature:
  • Added reverse Geolocation ability (obtain GPS coordinates from city name), with support for regular expressions
  • Added ability to geolocate while geotagging
  • Added -listgeo option to list the Geolocation database
  • Added the ability to include user-defined cities in the Geolocation database
  • Added the ability to write XMP-iptcExt LocationShown tags using Geolocate feature
  • Added the ability to specify which tags to read from file for the API Geolocation option
  • Added language translations for Geolocation names
  • Increased resolution of Geolocation GPS positions and stored populations
• API Changes:
  • Save necessary data members to allow GetInfo to be accessed by user-defined tags

• Added new Geolocation feature and write-only Geolocate tag
• Added new config file entry (@Image::ExifTool::UserDefined::Arguments) to allow default command-line arguments to be specified
• Added print conversion for TIFF-EPStandardID
• Added ability to delete Nextbase information from MP4 videos
• Decode timed GPS from MP4 videos written by Nextbase software
• Decode a number of new tags from Nextbase MP4 videos
• Decode a few new tags from Garmin MP4 videos
• Extract PreviewJXL images from DNG 1.7 files
• Generate Validate, ImageDataHash and UserParam tags earlier to allow them to be used in UserDefined Composite tags
• Enhanced the -c option so a minus sign in the format specification prints a signed coordinate without a leading "+" for positive numbers
• Changed formatting of some Accelerometer tags for consistency
• Changed behaviour of -ee3 option to do a brute-force scan for freeGPS in the media data even when referenced by 'gps ' atom
• Other internal changes to decoding of timed GPS from videos
• Fixed problem were ExifTool would give up on extracting some types of timed GPS from videos after 100 void fixes
• Fixed bug that could cause runtime error when reading Ogg files
• Fixed issue where some tags from alternate files using the -fileNUM option weren't generated as requested
• API Changes:
  • Added Geolocation, GeolocMaxDist and GeolocMinPop API options

• Added new Olympus CameraType and LensType value (thanks herb)
• Added a new Canon Irix LensType
• Added the ability to delete MacOS XAttrMDItemWhereFroms
• Decode a few new Canon DPP tags (thanks John Moyer)
• Decode timed GPS from Adzome GS65H MOV videos
• Improved handling of XML-unfriendly characters in JSON field names (fixes issue where -X option could produce invalid XML when reading JSON with the -struct option)
• Fixed decoding of ShutterCount for Canon G5X-ii CR3 files

• Properly implement patch of 12.45 to avoid duplicating raw data when writing Sony ARW images where the raw data is double-referenced as both strips and tiles
• Improved handling of bad offsets in HtmlDump output

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