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Added another H264 Model value (thanks Rob Lewis)

Added support for Canon 5DmkIII firmware version 1.2.1

Added recognition of IBM AVC video files

Added a new CanonModelID

Decode more FLIR tags (thanks Tomas)

Decode H264 MDPM TimeCode

More improvements to Sony LensType decoding (thanks Jos Roost)

Extract information from the ASF Metadata Library in WMV files

Extract ColorBalanceVersion for unknown Nikon ColorBalance information

Updated some ID3 Genre names (thanks Mats Peterson)

Fixed warning when using -p with a string containing a newline

Fixed some incorrect Pentax Q LensType values ]]> http://owl.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/history.html#v9.29 Sat, 18 May 2013 07:00:52 -0400

Added the ability to delete unknown JPEG APP segments by segment name

Added a bunch of new ID3 Genre values (thanks Mats Peterson)

Decode a few more Sony tags (thanks Jos Roost)

Decode a few more tricky FLIR tags (thanks Tomas)

Improved Dutch language translation (thanks Peter van der Laan)

Patched to avoid warning in images where the AFMicroAdj data has been truncated by Canon DPP

Fixed -tagsFromFile and -v so they may now be used when writing via pipes

Fixed writing of Panasonic LensType tags that were broken in the 9.15 update

Fixed incorrect case for list type of XMP DocumentAncestors and TextLayers

API Changes:

• Allow a File::RandomAccess reference as an input to WriteInfo()

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Fixed "ARRAY ref" runtime error introduced in 9.25 that could occur when using the -X option

Fixed runtime warning which could occur when conditionally deleting XMP structure ]]> http://owl.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/history.html#v9.27 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 07:16:54 -0400

Added read support for FLIR FFF and FPF images and decode more FLIR tags

Added some new Pentax LensType's and Nikon LensID's

Added a few new Panasonic ContrastMode values

Decode a number of Canon 6D tags

Allow CanonRaw tags to be written using "CIFF" as a group name

Improved decoding of Canon ColorData information for newer EOS models

Improved decoding of a number of Sony tags (thanks Jos Roost)

Removed index number from duplicate Composite TagID's in XML output

Fixed byte-order problem for a few Nikon D5200 and D7100 tags

Fixed incompatibility with old-style (pre-8.46) XMP user-defined structure definitions ]]> http://owl.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/history.html#v9.26 Sat, 13 Apr 2013 08:15:31 -0400

Added read support for FLIR thermal image metadata in JPEG images

Added write support for DNG version 1.4 images

Added a new Pentax DriveMode value and a new Pentax LensType

Added two new Olympus CameraType values

Added print conversion for XMP Flash tags to provide alternate language support

Decode a few more Nikon and Pentax tags

Decode more Sony tags (thanks Jos Roost)

Decode more Panasonic tags and changed decoding of others

Enhanced -j and -php options to work with -D, -H and -l

Improved German translations (thanks Herbert Kauer)

Patched decoding of QuickTime date/time tags to accommodate Samsung and Sony cameras that use an incorrect time zero of 1970 instead of 1904. This patch will only work for videos produced before 2036, so hopefully Samsung and Sony will fix this problem at their end before then (care to place a wager?)

Fixed issues when using "-wm cg" and writing metadata as a block

Fixed possible "division by zero" error when reading undefined XMP rational ]]> http://owl.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/history.html#v9.25 Sat, 06 Apr 2013 07:35:04 -0400

Added ability to overwrite plus append output files (-w+!)

Added support for Sigma X3F version 3.0 images

Added a few new values for some Pentax tags

Added a few new CanonModelID's

Decode Nikon D5100 and D5200 custom settings plus a few other Nikon tags

Allow the value for missing tags extracted with the -f option to be configured via the API MissingTagValue setting (default is still "-")

Improved decoding of Sony LensSpec (again, thanks Jos Roost)

Fixed bug reading QuickTime extended-size atoms ]]> http://owl.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/history.html#v9.24 Sat, 23 Mar 2013 09:21:39 -0400

Added -W (-tagOut) and -Wext (-tagOutExt) options to allow multiple tags to be extracted to separate output files from a single source file

Added append feature to -w (-w+)

Added ability to extract SoundFile from Ricoh RMETA

Added more SonyModelID and Sony LensType values and improved Sony LensType decoding (thanks Jos Roost)

Added a new Olympus LensType (thanks Niels Kristian Bech Jensen)

Added another Pentax LensType

Decode more Nikon flash information (thanks Alyda Gilmore for the samples)

Decode Pentax Kelvin white balance tags (thanks Klaus Homeister)

Extract PDF embedded image color space

Improved Spanish translations (thanks Emilio Sancha)

More patches to avoid "APP1 segment too large" errors when copying all tags from some RAW images ]]> http://owl.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/history.html#v9.23 Sun, 10 Mar 2013 10:38:49 -0400

Fixed problem extracting metadata from encrypted embedded JPEG images in PDF files and added the ability to extract JPEG 2000 information too ]]> http://owl.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/history.html#v9.22 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 20:19:43 -0500

Added ability to extract embedded images and their metadata from PDF files

Added read support for binary-format PLIST files

Added support for Sigma DP3 Merrill maker notes

Added a few new Sigma LensType values

Added a new FujiFilm PictureMode value

Decode a number of new Pentax tags (thanks Klaus Homeister)

Decode more Sony tags (thanks Jos Roost)

Decode some new Nikon D800 tags (thanks Alyda Gilmore for the samples)

Decode a number of new tags in 3GP videos

Decode Pentax CameraType

Made a few more DNG tags writable (but protected)

Fixed problem reading XREF table of some PDF files

API Changes:

• The CombineInfo() routine is now deprecated because it is likely that nobody ever used it. If anyone actually uses this, please let me know

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NOTICE: This release fixes a problem in the 9.19 Windows version that could cause ExifTool to crash when writing metadata to some files (it seems that one of the files in the 9.19 Windows package was corrupted)

Added a new PentaxModelID

Added write support for a few Getty Images XMP tags

Decode Sony AFAreaModeSetting (thanks Jos Roost) ]]> http://owl.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/history.html#v9.20 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 07:55:43 -0500