Software update: ExifTool 12.56

Phil Harvey has released version 12.56 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 are released regularly, but most releases are made available under the beta banner. This update is also referred to as a development version; the latest stable release is version 12.50. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

Changes in version 12.56:

• Added support for VNT (both Scene7 Vignette and V-Note document) files
• Added read support for InfiRay IJPEG metadata (thanks Marcos Del Sol Vives)
• Added some new Sony LensType values ​​(thanks Jos Roost and François Piette)
• Added a new FujiFilm VideoRecordingMode value (thanks Greybeard)
• Added two new Canon LensTypes and CanonModelIDs (thanks Norbert Wasser)
• Added ability to extract semantic images from Apple ProRaw DNG files
• Added read support for the PNG cICP chunk
• Decode more Nikon tags (thanks Warren Hatch)
• Extract PreviewImage from Insta360 trailer record 0x200
• Extract EmbeddedImageRectangle and some other new tags from VNT files
• Minor improvement to arg_files/xmp2exif.args (thanks StarGeek)
• Enhanced -ee option to extract metadata from all frames of a multipart EXR image
• Removed EXR Layout tag and incorporated into new Flags tag
• Patched possible hang problem when reading corrupted .rm audio files