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Harvey Posts ExifTool 13.36 Production Release
9 September 2025
Phil Harvey has posted ExifTool v13.36, the first production release since v13.35 on Sept. 6. The release is available in three formats, including a Windows executable and macOS package.
Changes since the last non-production release include:
Version 13.36:
- Added a new Nikon LensID
- Added new Sony and Pentax camera ID's
- Tolerate 'junk' after 'WAVE' chunk in LA, PAC, OFR and WV audio files
- Use gnu tar 1.35 to build the .tar.gz distribution package (versions 13.31-13.35 used bsdtar 3.5.3, and earlier versions used bsdtar 2.8.3)
Version 13.35:
- Added a new CanonModelID
- Added new Olympus PictureMode and LensType values
- Decode GPS from another DJI protobuf format (DJI Neo)
- Decode a few new Fujifilm tags
- Enhanced -ee option to extract M-Raw information from all images in Fujifilm RAF files
- Improved handling of standard-format unknown XMP date/time tags when the API XMPAutoConv option is set (which is the default) to put them in the "Time" group and apply the -d date/time formatting
- Improved -fileNUM option so it may be used to access tags from alternate files when the specified target FILE doesn't exist
- Improved print conversions for some Canon tags to handle "n/a" values
- Enhanced JSON long output (-j -l) so the API SaveBin option also returns the Rational ("rat") value if available
- Changed -if option so the expression is evaluated even when the source file doesn't exist (to allow more flexibily when using -fileNUM option or when creating the output file when writing)
- Fixed decoding of a few new Pentax tags
- Fixed -diff feature to report differences in binary-data values and to be consistent with handling of backslashes in Windows path names
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.