-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-1577 2009-02-13 03:20:10 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : perl-Image-ExifTool Product : Fedora 9 Version : 7.67 Release : 1.fc9 URL : http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/%7Ephil/exiftool/ Summary : Utility for reading and writing image meta info Description : ExifTool is a Perl module with an included command-line application for reading and writing meta information in image, audio, and video files. It reads EXIF, GPS, IPTC, XMP, JFIF, MakerNotes, GeoTIFF, ICC Profile, Photoshop IRB, FlashPix, AFCP, and ID3 meta information from JPG, JP2, TIFF, GIF, PNG, MNG, JNG, MIFF, EPS, PS, AI, PDF, PSD, BMP, THM, CRW, CR2, MRW, NEF, PEF, ORF, DNG, and many other types of images. ExifTool also extracts information from the maker notes of many digital cameras by various manufacturers including Canon, Casio, FujiFilm, HP, JVC/Victor, Kodak, Leaf, Minolta/Konica-Minolta, Nikon, Olympus/Epson, Panasonic/Leica, Pentax/Asahi, Ricoh, Sanyo, Sigma/Foveon, and Sony. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Updated from 7.60 (previous stable) to 7.67 (current stable). Upstream Changelog: Feb. 9, 2009 - Version 7.67 (production release) * IMPORTANT: Fixed bug introduced in version 7.01 which could cause corruption of TIFF-format images in very rare situations when adding tags to an image containing very large (> 10 MB) binary data blocks Feb. 7, 2009 - Version 7.66 * Improved language support * Changed conversion for a couple of the EXIF Flash values * Removed trailing white space from Make and Model values * Removed null terminators that may be left on some string values * Fixed problem with family 1 group names for QuickTime Date tags * Fixed problem with invalid names being generated for some unknown tags * Fixed decoding of ASF PreviewMimeType and PreviewDescription * Fixed formatting problems with -j output when combined with some options Feb. 5, 2009 - Version 7.65 * Added -j option for JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) output format * Improved French language translation for File group (thanks Jean Piquemal) * Enhanced -listx option to give short output when used after -s * Renamed "tagid" attribute to "id" in -X output to match -listx output * Fixed bug introduced in 7.64 which resulted in runtime warning when extracting non-existent tags with the -f option * Fixed problem which could cause runtime error with -listx option on some systems * Fixed problem with family 1 group names for QuickTime date tags Feb. 3, 2009 - Version 7.64 - "Babel fish" * Added -listx and -lang options * Added preliminary support for the following languages (thanks Jens!): o en [default] o ch_s (thanks Haibing Zhong) o cz (thanks Petr Michálek) o de (thanks Jens Duttke) o en_ca (for those of us who like to see "colour" to be spelled properly) o en_gb (correct "colour" plus a few other quirks) o es (thanks Santiago del Brío González) o fr (thanks Bernard Guillotin) o it (thanks Emilio Dati) o jp (thanks Kazunari Nishina) o nl (thanks Peter Moonen and Herman Beld) o pl (thanks Przemyslaw Sulek) * Added support for new XMP Windows Live Photo Gallery tags * Decode two new Panasonic tags and improved decoding of some others * Decode a few new 3rd party EXIF and IPTC tags * Enhanced -X output by adding -t feature for tag table information * Improved decoding of Photoshop ClippingPathName and remove Unknown flag * Renamed Panasonic EXIF "Title" tag to "PanasonicTitle" and improved decoding * Fixed problem which could cause crash if reading corrupted images on Windows * Fixed inconsistencies rewriting XMP which uses extra rdf:Description elements instead of rdf:parseType='Resource' attribute * Fixed decoding of Nikon D40 RemoteOnDuration * API Changes: o Added Lang option Jan. 23, 2009 - Version 7.63 * Added new Composite tags: SubSecCreateDate and SubSecModifyDate * Decode Sony DSLR WB_RGBLevels tags (thanks Andrey Tverdokhleb) * Decode a few more NikonScan tags (thanks Brendt Wohlberg) * Included new argument files in distribution: xmp2exif.args and exif2xmp.args * Improved decoding of PentaxModelID for K-m and K2000 * Minor change to decoding of Canon 1DmkIII ISOSpeedRange * Downgrade "MRW format error" to a warning when reading ARW images containing MRW information that has been corrupted by the Sony IDC utility * Renamed Kodak SubSecTime tag to Time * Changed Composite DateTimeCreated tag to use only IPTC tags * Changed name of Sony/Minolta MRW WBLevels tag to reflect ordering of color components * Fixed problems recognizing some MP3 files Jan. 16, 2009 - Version 7.62 * Decode a number of new tags for recent Canon EOS models * Decode ID3v2.3 Compilation tag (written by iTunes) * Added a number of new ID3 genre's and improved ID3v2 genre conversion * Avoid converting MIE ISO 8859-1 string values * Enhanced XML output (-X) to work with binary data (-b) option and encode values in base64 if necessary * Fixed problem with invalid UTF-8 when writing XMP or using -X (XML) option Jan. 10, 2009 - Version 7.61 * Added a new Pentax LensType and a new PentaxModelID (thanks Denis Bourez) * Added ability to copy makernotes from Pentax or Samsung native DNG image * Decode makernotes in Samsung GX model DNG images * Decode CameraTemperature for Canon EOS cameras with Live View (thanks Karl-Heinz Klotz) * Decode a number of Canon 5DmkII CameraInfo tags * Included 2 new argument files in distribution: xmp2gps.args and gps2xmp.args * Prevent writing of TIFF images containing the obsolete (and unsupported) TIFF 6.0 JPEG extensions * Fixed bug which could result in runtime warning when writing makernotes as a block -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Wed Feb 11 2009 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcall...@redhat.com> 7.67-1 - update to 7.67 * Tue Jan 6 2009 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcall...@redhat.com> 7.60-1 - update to 7.60 * Mon Oct 27 2008 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcall...@redhat.com> 7.51-1 - update to 7.51 * Wed May 28 2008 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcall...@redhat.com> 7.25-2 - get rid of empty arch-specific directories (bz 448744) * Fri Apr 25 2008 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcall...@redhat.com> 7.25-1 - update to 7.25 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update perl-Image-ExifTool' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-announce