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Harvey Posts ExifTool 13.10 Production Release
20 December 2024
Phil Harvey has posted ExifTool v13.10, an update to the recent v12.76 and the first production release since v12.76 on Oct. 19. The release is available in three formats, including a Windows executable and macOS package.
Changes since the last non-production release include:
Version 13.10:
- Added warnings for out-of-order entries in "iinf" and "ipma" boxes of HEIC images
- Added support for date/time formatting codes percentf and percentz in the inverse print conversion when writing tags
- Updated Geolocation databases from current geonames.org files
- Improved verbose output to show values stored with construction method 1 in MP4-based files
- Enhanced the date/time timezone format specifier percentz so that percent:z returns the time zone with a colon separator (eg. "-05:00")
- Fixed bug where the existing tag wasn't being removed when writing a new value for an Unknown QuickTime UserData or ItemList tag
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.
And we've also developed a Keyboard Maestro macro to install the tar.gz distribution on macOS.
It's really the Swiss Army knife of Exif data.