Download ExifTool 12.78

Phil Harvey has released version 12.78 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 12.76. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

Changes in version 12.78

• Added new Geolocation feature and write only Geolocate tag
• Added new config file entry (@Image::ExifTool::UserDefined::Arguments) to allow default command-line arguments to be specified
• Added print conversion for TIFF-EPStandardID
• Added ability to delete Nextbase information from MP4 videos
• Decode timed GPS from MP4 videos written by Nextbase software
• Decode a number of new tags from Nextbase MP4 videos
• Decode a few new tags from Garmin MP4 videos
• Extract PreviewJXL images from DNG 1.7 files
• Generate Validate, ImageDataHash and UserParam tags earlier to allow them to be used in UserDefined Composite tags
• Enhanced the -c option so a minus sign in the format specification prints a signed coordinate without a leading “+” for positive numbers
• Changed formatting of some Accelerometer tags for consistency
• Changed behavior of -ee3 option to do a brute-force scan for freeGPS in the media data even when referenced by 'gps ' atom
• Other internal changes to decoding of timed GPS from videos
• Fixed problem were ExifTool would give up on extracting some types of timed GPS from videos after 100 void fixes
• Fixed bug that could cause runtime error when reading Ogg files
• Fixed issue where some tags from alternate files using the -fileNUM option weren't generated as requested
• API Changes:
  • Added Geolocation, GeolocMaxDist and GeolocMinPop API options