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Change Log
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3.0.0 — 2022-05-08
* **BREAKING CHANGE:** Add type hints, which removes Python2 compatibility
* Update make_string util to clean up bad values (#128) by Étienne Pelletier
* Fix Olympus SpecialMode Unknown Values (#143) by Paul Barton
* Remove coding system from UserComment sequence only if it is valid (#147) by Grzegorz Ruciński
* Fixes to orientation by Mark
* Add some EXIF tags
* Add support for PNG files (#159) by Marco
* Fix for HEIC Unknown Parsers (#153) by Paul Barton
* Handle images that has corrupted headers/tags (#152) by Mahmoud Harmouch
2.3.2 — 2020-10-29
* Fixes for HEIC files from Note10+ (#127) by Drew Perttula
* Add missing EXIF OffsetTime tags (#126) by Étienne Pelletier
2.3.1 — 2020-08-07
* Fix bug introduced with v2.3.0 in HEIC processing.
2.3.0 — 2020-08-03
* Add notice on Python2 EOL
* Modernize code and improve testing, split up some huge functions
* Added support for webp file format (#116) by Grzegorz Ruciński
* Add linting
* Added missing IFD data type; correct spelling mistake (#119) by Piero Toffanin
* Add syntax highlight for README (#117) by John Lin
* Add Python 3.8 to CI (#113) by 2*yo
* make HEIC exif extractor much more compatible (#109) by Tony Guo
* Add black level tag (#108)
* Use list instead of tuple for classifiers (#107) by Florian Preinstorfer
2.2.1 — 2020-07-31
* Very minor corrections.
2.2.0 — 2019-07-24
* Add support for Python 3.5, 3.6, 3.7
* Drop official support for Python 2.6, 3.2, 3.3
* Fix for string count equals 0 (issue #67)
* Rebasing of struct pull requests: closes #54, closes #60 by Christopher Chavez
* Refactor to use Python's struct module for packing/unpacking by Dave Jones (waveform80)
* Support floating point fields" by Reed Nightingale (reedbn)
* Raw images support by changing Tiff detection by xaumex
* Fix GPS information erroneously None (#96) by Christopher Chavez
* Initial HEIC support (Sam Rushing)
2.1.2 — 2015-09-14
* Fix 90 CW (6) and Rotated 90 CCW (8) which were swapped with each other by Mark Hahnenberg
* Catch memory and overflow errors on file seek, print a warning
* Put manufacturers' makernote definitions in separate files
2.1.1 — 2015-05-16
* Add a CONTRIBUTING file for Github.
* Add some FujiFilm tags.
* Revert Canon Makernote processing modifications
2.1.0 — 2015-05-15
* Bypass empty/unreadable Olympus MakerNote info (issue #42)
* Support Apple Makernote and Apple HDR details by Jesus Cea
* Correcty process the Makernote of some Canon models by Jesus Cea
* Support HDR in Canon cameras by Jesus Cea
2.0.2 — 2015-03-29
* Fixed bug when importing as a module (issue #31)
2.0.1 — 2014-02-09
* Represent the IFD as a string to fix formatting errors (issue #45)
* Fix unicode errors in python2 (issue #46)
* Fix for tag name backwards compatibility with 1.X series
2.0.0 — 2014-11-27
* Drop support for Python 2.5
* Add support for Python 3.2, 3.3 and 3.4 by velis74
* Add Travis testing
* Cleanup some tag definitions
* Fix bug #30 (TypeError on invalid IFD)
* Fix bug #33 (TypeError on invalid output characters)
* Add basic coloring for debug mode
* Add finding XMP tags (experimental, debug only)
* Add some missing Exif tags
* Use stdout for log output
* Experimental support for dumping XMP data
1.4.2 — 2013-11-28
* A few new Canon tags
* Python3 fixes by velis74 and leprechaun
* Fix for TypeError (issue #28)
* Pylint & PEP8 fixes
1.4.1 — 2013-10-19
* Better version handling
* Better PyPI packaging
1.4.0 — 2013-09-28
* Many new tags big thanks to Rodolfo Puig, Paul Barton, Joe Beda
* Do not extract thumbnail in quick mode (issue #19)
* Put tag definitions in separate module
* Add more timing info & version info
1.3.3 — 2013-08-03
* Add timing info in debug mode and nicer message format
* Fix for faster processing
1.3.2 — 2013-07-31
* Improve PyPI package
* fix for DeprecationWarning: classic int division
* Improvements to debug output
* Add some Nikon makernote tags
1.3.1 — 2013-07-29
* More PEP8 & PEP257 improvements
* Better logging
1.3.0 — 2013-07-27
* Set default values in case not set (ortsed)
* PEP8 & PEP257 improvements
* Better score in pylint
* Ideas and some code from Samuele Santi's and Peter Reimer's forks
* Replace print with logging
* Package for PyPI
1.2.0 — 2013-02-08
* Port to Python 3 by DarkRedman
* Fix endless loop on broken images by Michael Bemmerl
* Rewrite of README.md
* Fixed incoherent copyright notices
1.1.0 — 2012-11-30 - all by Gregory Dudek
* Overflow error fixes added (related to 2**31 size)
* GPS tags added.
1.0.10 — 2012-09-26
* Add GPS tags
* Add better endian debug info
2012-06-13
* Support malformed last IFD by fhats
* Light source, Flash and Metering mode dictionaries by gryfik
2008-07-31
* Wikipedia Commons hunt for suitable test case images,
* testing new code additions.
2008-07-09 - all by Stephen H. Olson
* Fix a problem with reading MakerNotes out of NEF files.
* Add some more Nikon MakerNote tags.
2008-07-08 - all by Stephen H. Olson
* An error check for large tags totally borked MakerNotes.
With Nikon anyway, valid MakerNotes can be pretty big.
* Add error check for a crash caused by nikon_ev_bias being
called with the wrong args.
* Drop any garbage after a null character in string
(patch from Andrew McNabb <amcnabb@google.com>).
2008-02-12
* Fix crash on invalid MakerNote
* Fix crash on huge Makernote (temp fix)
* Add printIM tag 0xC4A5, needs decoding info
* Add 0x9C9B-F range of tags
* Add a bunch of tag definitions from:
http://owl.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/TagNames/EXIF.html
* Add 'strict' variable and command line option
2008-01-18 - all by Gunter Ohrner
* Add ``GPSDate`` tag
2007-12-12
* Fix quick option on certain image types
* Add note on tag naming in documentation
2007-11-30
* Changed -s option to -t
* Put changelog into separate file
2007-10-28
* Merged changes from ReimarBauer
* Added command line option for debug, stop
processing on tag.
2007-09-27
* Add some Olympus Makernote tags.
2007-09-26 - all by Stephen H. Olson
* Don't error out on invalid Olympus 'SpecialMode'.
* Add a few more Olympus/Minolta tags.
2007-09-22 - all by Stephen H. Olson
* Don't error on invalid string
* Improved Nikon MakerNote support
2007-05-03 - all by Martin Stone
* Fix for inverted detailed flag and Photoshop header
2007-03-24
* Can now ignore MakerNotes Tags for faster processing.
2007-01-18
* Fixed a couple errors and assuming maintenance of the library.
2006-08-04 all by Reimar Bauer
* Added an optional parameter name to process_file and dump_IFD. Using this
parameter the loop is breaked after that tag_name is processed.
* some PEP8 changes
Original Notices
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Contains code from "exifdump.py" originally written by Thierry Bousch
<bousch@topo.math.u-psud.fr> and released into the public domain.
Updated and turned into general-purpose library by Gene Cash
Patch Contributors:
* Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@crufty.net>
s2n fix & orientation decode
* John T. Riedl <riedl@cs.umn.edu>
Added support for newer Nikon type 3 Makernote format for D70 and some
other Nikon cameras.
* Joerg Schaefer <schaeferj@gmx.net>
Fixed subtle bug when faking an EXIF header, which affected maker notes
using relative offsets, and a fix for Nikon D100.
2004-02-15 CEC
* Finally fixed bit shift warning by converting Y to 0L.
2003-11-30 CEC
* Fixed problem with canon_decode_tag() not creating an
IFD_Tag() object.
2002-01-26 CEC
* Added ability to extract TIFF thumbnails.
* Added Nikon, Fujifilm, Casio MakerNotes.
2002-01-25 CEC
* Discovered JPEG thumbnail in Olympus TIFF MakerNote.
2002-01-23 CEC
* Trimmed nulls from end of string values.
2002-01-20 CEC Added MakerNote processing logic.
* Added Olympus MakerNote.
* Converted data structure to single-level dictionary, avoiding
tag name collisions by prefixing with IFD name. This makes
it much easier to use.
2002-01-19 CEC Added ability to read TIFFs and JFIF-format JPEGs.
* Added ability to extract JPEG formatted thumbnail.
* Added ability to read GPS IFD (not tested).
* Converted IFD data structure to dictionaries indexed by tag name.
* Factored into library returning dictionary of IFDs plus thumbnail, if any.
2002-01-17 CEC Discovered code on web.
* Commented everything.
* Made small code improvements.
* Reformatted for readability.
1999-08-21 TB
* Last update by Thierry Bousch to his code.
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