Software Update: ExifTool 12.06

Phil Harvey has released version 12.06 of ExifTool. ExifTool is a free and cross-platform program that allows 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. New versions appear regularly, but most releases are made available under the beta flag. This update is also referred to as a development version, the last stable release is version 12.00. Since version 12.04, the following changes and improvements have been made:

Changes in version 12.06

• Added read support for Lyrics3 metadata (and fixed problem where APE metadata may be ignored if Lyrics3 exists)
• Added a new Panasonic VideoBurstMode value (thanks Klaus Homeister)
• Added a new Olympus MultipleExposureMode value
• Added a new Nikon LensID
• Added back conversions for XMP-dwc EventTime that were removed in 12.04 with a patch to allow time-only values
• Decode GIF AspectRatio
• Decode Olympus FocusBracketStepSize (thanks Karsten)
• Extract PNG iDOT chunk into Binary format with the name AppleDataOffsets
• Process PNG images which do not start with mandatory IHDR chunk

Changes in version 12.05

• Added a new Panasonic SelfTimer value (thanks Herb)
• Decode a few more DPX tags (thanks Harry Mallon)
• Extract AIFF APPL tag as ApplicationData
• Fixed bug writing QuickTime ItemList ‘gnre’ Genre values
• Fixed an incorrect value for Panasonic VideoBurstResolution (thanks Herb)
• Fixed problem when applying a time shift to some invalid makernote date/time values