drewnoakes/metadata-extractor 2.10.0

v2.10.0

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Exif

• Remove storage of thumbnail data in directories

GIF

• Significant extension of GIF support, including embedded comments, XMP and ICC (#222)

IPTC

• Fix parsing IPTC dates in Directory.getDate (#212)

JPEG

• Extract information about Huffman tables in JPEG files (#231, #234, #239)

PNG

• Improve error recovery when invalid PNG chunk 4CC seen (#206, #207)

TIFF

• Support multi-page TIFF (#228)

XMP

• Remove XMP tags (see 5b07a49)
• Support extended XMP decoding in JPEG, where XMP data is too large for a single JPEG segment (#184, #204)
• Update XMPCore dependency from version 5.1.2 to 5.1.3 (#194, #188)

Makernotes

• Support Reconyx Hyper and UltraFire makernotes (#227)
• Considerably extend Olympus RAW support (#210)
• Only treat Canon makernote tags as embedded directories if they have the correct type (#116)
• Extend Sony, Leica, Samsung and Panasonic support (#214)
• Add support for Apple makernotes
• Extend Makernote support for Canon, including lens IDs
• Fix capitalisation in OlympusEquipmentMakernoteDescriptor
• Fix typo in CanonMakernoteDirectory.TAG_FOCUS_CONTINUOUS descriptor output
• Don't require IFD0 to be present in order to process makernotes

Miscellaneous

• Defer string charset decoding until after extraction, allowing clients to specify alternate encodings (#135, #165#, #166, #191, #192)
• Improved null value tracking and NRE prevention
• Use Euclidean Algorithm to simplify Rational values (#226)
• Introduce Rational.isZero()
• Make Rational implement Comparable<Rational>
• Don't share thread-unsafe DecimalFormat instances (#237)
• Make JAR file executable via Main-Class (#176)
• Raise minimum Java version from 1.5 to 1.6 (#218)
• Fix Javadoc for JDK 1.8
• Remove Ant build file