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)
| Version number | 12.40 |
| Release status | Final |
| Operating systems | Windows 7, Linux, macOS, Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows 11 |
| Website | Phil Harvey |
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| License type | GPL |