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Harvey Posts ExifTool 12.76 Production Release
7 February 2024
Phil Harvey has posted ExifTool v12.76, an update to the recent v12.75 and the first production release since v12.70 on Nov. 24, 2023. The release is available in three formats, including a Windows executable and macOS package.
Changes since the last non-production release include:
Version 12.76:
- Properly implement patch of 12.45 to avoid duplicating raw data when writing Sony ARW images where the raw data is double-referenced as both strips and tiles
- Improved handling of bad offsets in HtmlDump output
Version 12.76:
- Corruption Warning: Fixed bug introduced in 12.45 which could result in corrupted Sony ARW images from some newer models when rewriting lossless compressed ARW images which were previously edited by 12.44 or earlier
- Added ability to read C2PA JUMBF metadata from PDF and SVG files
- Added ability to extract JUMBF metadata as a block
- Added read support for C2PA (JUMBF-format) files
- Removed "date before 1970" warning entirely since 64-bit systems should be able to handle dates in this range
- Improved Canon FocusMode decoding
- Fixed bug introducd in 12.74 which could cause "Undefined subroutine" runtime error when reading MIE files
In addition to the production releases, Harvey posts regular updates to ExifTool to handle new cameras and newly-decoded tags. His site includes an encyclopedia of Exif Tag Names in addition to extensive documentation and links to other resources.
We rely on the Perl library to write copyright information into the Exif header of our JPEGs and into DNG files. We also use it to read Exif header information. Our Services page includes a blow-by-blow account of building an OS X contextual menu service using ExifTool and we've added a Services Request form so you can request our help with your own software development.
We've explained how to reset the capture time in your images with ExifTool in Spring Back After The Fact. And we've written about using the tool in Copyrighter Pro to add copyright information to your images, as well. Most recently, we published Using Exiftool as an Image Organizer.
It's really the Swiss Army knife of Exif data.