Software Update: ExifTool 12.40

Phil Harvey has released version 12.40 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 3rd 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 latest stable release is version 12.30. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

Changes in version 12.40:

• Added PageCount tag to return the number of pages in a multi-page TIFF
• Added a new Nikon LensID (thanks Wolfgang Exler)
• Added a few more Sony LensTypes (thanks Jos Roost)
• Decode some new Canon tags (thanks Mark Reid)
• Decode another Nikon Z9 tag (thanks Warren Hatch)
• Decode Nikon NKSC GPSImgDirection (thanks Olaf)
• Improved handling of empty XMP structures in lists
• Tolerate leading UTF-8 BOM in geotag log files
• Updated photoshop_paths.config to include WorkingPath
• Patched to allow writing of MP4 videos which have url tracks with a missing sample description entry
• Fixed deep recursion error when reading multi-page TIFF images with more than 100 pages
• Fixed potential deep recursion runtime error when writing nested XMP structures
• Fixed warning which could be generated when writing new Composite:GPSCoordinates tag
• Fixed description of GPR (General Purpose RAW) file type
• Fixed typo in the name of a new Nikon tag (thanks Herb)