Software update: ExifTool 12.65

Phil Harvey has released version 12.65 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 12.65:

• Added a new QuickTime Keys tag
• Added a new CanonModelID (thanks Laurent Clevy)
• Added a new Canon LensType (thanks Norbert Wasser)
• Added number in brackets to converted Samsung MCCData value
• Decode a number of new Sony tags (thanks Jos Roost)
• Decode a few new FlashPix tags (github #217)
• Improved decoding of Nikon Z9 firmware 4.0 tags (thanks Warren Hatch)
• Improved parsing of PDF:Keywords to support semicolon-separated lists
• Enhanced -api option to show list of available options if no argument is provided
• Lowered priority of IFD1 tags in ARW images so IFD0/SubIFD take precedence
• Changed QuickTime tag names for atID (AlbumTitleID to ArtistID) and plID (PlayListID to AlbumID) (github issue #216), and added cmID (ComposerID)
• Changed Apple:MediaGroupUUID tag name back to ContentIdentifier
• Patched the -d option to handle the %s format code internally when writing (avoids problems due to inconsistent behavior of this format code in the strptime function on different systems)
• Patched patch of version 12.32 to restore ability to read from named pipes
• Fixed bug which could cause a hang when processing a corrupt BigTIFF image
• Fixed document number for auxiliary image metadata in HEIC files
• Fixed misspelled Apple tag name (thanks Neal Krawetz)
• API Changes:
  • Added AvailableOptions method