Software update: ExifTool 11.75

Phil Harvey has released version 11.75 of ExifTool. ExifTool is a free and cross-platform program that uses the metadata of a large number of files can be managed and edited. It works from the command line, but there are third party solutions available that allow it to be used with a graphical user interface as well. This update is referred to as a development version, the latest stable release is version 11.70. Since version 11.72 the following changes and improvements have been made:

Changes in version 11.75

• Added ability to read some basic characteristics of TXT files
• Added kml_track.fmt to the fmt_files of the full distribution
• Added built-in support for decoding GPS from the four video subtitle text formats that were previously handled by separate config files, and removed these config files from the distribution
• Derive GPSDateTime from CreateDate and SampleTime if not already available when extracting timed GPS metadata from QuickTime-format videos
• Changed family 2 groups of some Extra tags

Changes in version 11.74

• Added support for new XMP IPTC Extension version 1.5 tags
• Added a new Nikon LensID (thanks LibRaw)
• Decode GPS track from Auto-Vox dashcam MOV videos
• Improved Russian translations (thanks Andrei Korzhyts and Alexander)
• Enhanced convert_regions.config to support new IPTC Extension 1.5 ImageRegion
• Changed the way the FlatName element works when used in a structure element (the structure name is now added as a prefix to the flattened tag name)
• Patched gpx.fmt and gpx_wpt.fmt to support sub-seconds in GPSDateTime value

Changes in version 11.73

• Decode timed metadata from Parrot drone videos
• Patched dji.config file to properly handle time zones
• Fixed bug which caused runtime error when reading timed metadata from Cobra Dash Cam AVI videos