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MetadataExtractor v2.0.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2019-05-31 // almost 5 years ago

  • 🚀 Thanks to all the amazing contributors who made this release what it is!

    💥 Breaking changes:

    • 🚚 Thumbnail storage removed (it was broken)
    • ✂ Removed incomplete XMP interpretation. Use the XmpMeta object provided by XmpDirectory instead.
    • Replace PCL target with netstandard1.3

    🆕 New features

    • ➕ Add strong name (signed) package variant (MetadataExtractor.StrongName)
    • ➕ Add support for UTF8, UTF7 and UTF32 (Unicode) encodings when trying to decode string data
    • ➕ Add description of CFA patterns
    • ➕ Add several new Exif tags
    • ➕ Add support for multi-page TIFF files
    • ➕ Add LeicaType5MakernoteDirectory
    • ➕ Add PanasonicRawIfd0Directory
    • ➕ Add PanasonicRawDistortionDirectory
    • ➕ Add PanasonicRawWbInfo2Directory
    • ➕ Add PanasonicRawWbInfoDirectory
    • ➕ Add PrintIMDirectory
    • ➕ Add SamsungType2MakernoteDirectory
    • ➕ Add GifAnimationDirectory
    • ➕ Add GifCommentDirectory
    • ➕ Add GifControlDirectory
    • ➕ Add GifImageDirectory
    • ➕ Add ErrorDirectory

    👌 Improvements

    • 🛠 Fix Exif subfile type description
    • 👉 Use StringValue for JPEG comments to allow reinterpreting the encoding
    • 👌 Support yyyyMMdd date format, used in IPTC
    • 👌 Improve character encoding support in IPTC
    • 👌 Improve Olympus makernote support
    • 👌 Improve Olympus RAW support
    • 👌 Improve Panasonic makernote support
    • 👌 Improve Reconyx HyperFire makernote support
    • 👌 Improve Sony makernote support
    • 👌 Improve API documentation
    • 👌 Improve Rational simplification via the Euclidean method