# ExifTool Version History

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Note: The most recent production release is Version 13.00. (Other versions are considered development releases, and are not uploaded to MetaCPAN.)

Oct. 29, 2024 - Version 13.00 (production release)

- 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)

Oct. 18, 2024 - Version 12.99

- 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

Oct. 8, 2024 - Version 12.98

- 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

Sept. 25, 2024 - Version 12.97

- 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

Sept. 1, 2024 - Version 12.96

- 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

Aug. 30, 2024 - Version 12.95

- 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

Aug. 29, 2024 - Version 12.94

- 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

Aug. 20, 2024 - Version 12.93

- 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

July 24, 2024 - Version 12.92

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

July 24, 2024 - Version 12.91

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

July 24, 2024 - Version 12.90

- 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

July 12, 2024 - Version 12.89

- 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

July 11, 2024 - Version 12.88 - "New Windows/MacOS packages"

- 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.

June 13, 2024 - Version 12.87

- 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

June 7, 2024 - Version 12.86

- 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

May 21, 2024 - Version 12.85

- 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

Apr. 23, 2024 - Version 12.84

- 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

Apr. 18, 2024 - Version 12.83

- 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

Apr. 5, 2024 - Version 12.82 - "GM PDR"

- 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

Mar. 27, 2024 - Version 12.81

- 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

Mar. 19, 2024 - Version 12.80

- 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

Mar. 15, 2024 - Version 12.79

- 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

Mar. 5, 2024 - Version 12.78 - "Geolocation"

- 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

Feb. 16, 2024 - Version 12.77

- 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

Jan. 31, 2024 - Version 12.76 (production release)

- 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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