ExifTool 8.77

Major Features:

1. Powerful, fast, flexible and customizable
2. Supports a large number of different file formats
3. Reads EXIF, GPS, IPTC, XMP, JFIF, MakerNotes, GeoTIFF, ICC Profile, Photoshop IRB, FlashPix, AFCP, ID3 and more...
4. Writes EXIF, GPS, IPTC, XMP, JFIF, MakerNotes, ICC Profile, Photoshop IRB, AFCP and more...
5. Reads and writes maker notes of many digital cameras
6. Decodes a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma
7. Numerous output formatting options (including tab-delimited, HTML, XML and JSON)
8. Multi-lingual output (cs, de, en, en_ca, en_gb, es, fr, it, ja, ko, nl, pl, ru, sv, tr, zh_cn or zh_tw)
9. Geotags images from GPS track log files (with time drift correction!)
10. Generates track logs from geotagged images
11. Shifts date/time values to fix timestamps in images
12. Renames files and organizes in directories (by date or by any other meta information)
13. Extracts thumbnail images, preview images, and large JPEG images from RAW files
14. Copies meta information between files (even different-format files)
15. Reads/writes structured XMP information
16. Deletes meta information individually, in groups, or altogether
17. Sets the file modification date from EXIF information
18. Supports alternate language tags in XMP, PNG, ID3, Font, QuickTime, ICC Profile, MIE and MXF information
19. Processes entire directory trees
20. Creates text output file for each image file
21. Creates binary-format metadata-only (MIE) files for metadata backup
22. Automatically backs up original image when writing
23. Organizes output into groups
24. Conditionally processes files based on value of any meta information
25. Ability to add custom user-defined tags
26. Support for MWG (Metadata Working Group) recommendations
27. Recognizes thousands of different tags
28. Tested with images from thousands of different camera models
29. Advanced verbose and HTML-based hex dump outputs

Enhancements:  

• Added some new and updated some existing Sony/Minolta LensType values
• Added a new Canon LensType
• Added two missing Minolta Teleconverter values
• Decode Olympus ArtFilterEffect
• Enhanced -c (CoordFormat) option to allow signed coordinate output
• Changed -sort option to always sort -json and -X outputs by tag name
• Minor change to an Olympus LensType name (thanks Niels Kristian Bech Jensen)
• Fixed problem geotagging orientation information from PTNTHPR sentence
• Fixed decoding of negative Pentax EffectiveLV values
• Fixed typo in an Olympus LensType 

Requirements:

• Perl 5.004 or later