ExifTool 12.85

Phil Harvey has released version 12.85 of ExifTool. ExifTool is a free and cross-platform program that allows managing and editing the metadata of a large number of files. 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 12.85

• Added GeolocationFeatureType tag
• Added read support for Nikon NKA and NXD adjustment files
• Added a new Apple:ImageCaptureType value, and changed another one
• Decode a few new Pentax tags
• Decode a few new Canon tags
• Decode some Ricoh Exif metadata from MOV videos
• Extract ID3 UserDefinedText and UserDefinedURL tags by name
• Make $advFmtSelf available for user-defined helper functions
• Documented API GeoDir pseudo option feature
• Tolerate pad byte at end of HIF file when writing
• Raised priority of FileName, BaseName, Directory and FileType tags so they don't get hidden by other tags in the file which may have these names
• Changed decoding of QuickTime Rotation (irot) to correspond with EXIF:Orientation (previously this was oddly reported as degrees of counterclockwise rotation)
• Fixed a typo in the print conversion value for a couple of DPX tags
• Fixed problem writing some QuickTime tags with very large (> 16 MB) values
• Fixed bug in build_geolocation utility that resulted in incorrect population numbers when run under ActivePerl