Download ExifTool 12.64

Phil Harvey has released version 12.64 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. Since version 12.62, the following changes and improvements have been made:

Changes in version 12.64:

• Added a new Sony LensType
• Added config_files/guano.config to the distribution
• Added support for Garmin Low-resolution Video (GLV) files
• Added JUMBF to the list of deletable groups
• Added (untested) read support for spherical video tags in Matroska videos
• Decode a number of new Nikon Z9 tags
• Decode AmbisonicAudio tags in spherical MP4 videos
• Decode another Apple tag
• Improved French translations
• Patched to allow writing QuickTime-based videos where the audio/video sample description comes after the sample pointers
• Fixed parsing of GPS from Insta360 videos to properly skip void fixes
• Fixed problem where Apple iPhone 14 images produced invalid XML in -X output when using -struct option
• API Changes:
  • Added StructFormat option to allow JSON format serialized structures
  • Added NoDups option to eliminate duplicate items from queued values ​​when writing List-type tags

Changes in version 12.63:

• Added ability to read/write/create Brotli-compressed metadata in JXL images (requires IO::Compress::Brotli)
• Added partial support for Exif 3.0 specification:
  • Added new EXIF ​​tags
  • Added MPF Original Preservation Image type
  • Support for reading ‘utf8’ values ​​(but still write only as ‘string’)
• Added support for Adobe XMP-hdrgm (HDR Gain Map) tags
• Added support for reading 7z files
• Added XMP panorama tags
• Added warning if -csv is used with -p
• Added warning if trying to geotag from a UTF-16 track log
• Decode ImageWidth/Height from JXL images using partial codestreams
• Decode more Sony tags for some newer models
• Extract GainMapImage (hrgm box) from JXL files
• Extract Guano information from WAV files
• Enhanced ImageDataMD5 feature and renamed to ImageDataHash (with ImageDataMD5 alias for backward compatibility)
• Changed RARVersion tag name to FileVersion
• Fixed bug introduced in 12.46 which could cause a hang when reading a corrupted RIFF-based file
• Fixed writing of Composition:GPSPosition when -n is used
• API Changes:
  • Added ImageHashType option