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Harvey Posts ExifTool 13.25 Production Release
13 March 2025
Phil Harvey has posted ExifTool v13.25, an update to several recent releases this month and the first production release since v13.10 on Dec.20, 2024. The release is available in three formats, including a Windows executable and macOS package.
Changes since the last non-production release include:
Version 13.25:
- Fixed issue which could corrupt HEIC images from newer iPhones when writing QuickTime:Rotation
- Decode more PLIST information from HEIC images
- Updated Geolocation databases from current geonames.org files
- Updated DarwinCore for the 2023 specification
- API Changes: Added KeepUTCTime option
Version 13.24:
- Changed -listf, -listr and -listwf options to print descriptions when either -v or -l is added (previously only -l did this)
- Patched to avoid failed PCAP test due to differing time zones
Version 13.23:
- Added read support for CAP, PCAP and PACPNG files
- Added a number of new Sony LensType2 values
- Added the 2 new GPSAltitudeRef values defined by Exif 3.0
- Decode APP4 "Qualcomm Dual Camera Attributes" metadata
- Exif X/YResolution, ResolutionUnit and FlashpixVersion are no longer treated as mandatory tags (they were changed to optional in the Exif 3.0 specification)
- Patched decoding of Nikon Z8 MenuSettings to accommodate changes in the data structure as of firmware version 2.1
- Patched to avoid bug in Perl v5.26.3 which could cause hang when reading very large and corrupted XMP
- Patched -plot option to avoid bug in Google Chrome SVG marker rendering
- API Changes: Fixed documentation for LargeFileSupport option to reflect current default
Version 13.22:
- Improvements and additions to the new plot feature
- Decode a few more DJI timed metadata tags
- Extract GainMapImage from PNG images
- Reverted WebP FileType change of version 13.20
- Set $^W in the exiftool application to re-enable global warnings (they have been disabled since version 12.92 due to the shebang change)
- Fixed possible incorrect IFD number in "No size tag" warning
- Fixed "File is empty" error when using -plot with -w to write the output file into the same directory as the input 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.
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.