Software update: ExifTool 12.61

Phil Harvey has released version 12.61 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 12.60. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

Changes in version 12.61:

• Added ImageDataMD5 support for J2C and JXL images
• Added support for PDF 2.0 (specification is freely finally available)
• Added ability to extract timed Accelerometer data from Azdome GS63H MP4 videos which don’t contain GPS
• Added some new Sony lenses (thanks Jos Roost)
• Decode some new tags for the Sony ZV-E1 (thanks Jos Roost)
• Decode more tags for the Nikon Z30 (thanks Xavier)
• Enhanced -fileNUM option to allow tags from the main file to be used in the file name string
• Validate sample offset and size when calculating ImageDataMD5 for MP4 videos (note: may change ImageDataMD5 value for videos where audio data runs past end of media data)
• Return error when attempting to write a fragmented JXL file
• Improved robustness for determining image size for corrupted JPEG
• Patched to allow Insta360 GPS records of unexpected length and tweaked verification algorithm to determine validity of these records
• Fixed bug introduced in 12.57 where -progress:%f cool runtime warnings
• Fixed “–” option to ignore subsequent -common_args option
• Fixed incorrect ImageDataMD5 for Sony A100 ARW images
• Fixed problem reading new XMP-et:OriginalImageMD5 tag