Fedora 9 Update: perl-Image-ExifTool-7.67-1.fc9

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-1577
2009-02-13 03:20:10
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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.

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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
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Feb 11 2009 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> 7.67-1
- update to 7.67
* Tue Jan  6 2009 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> 7.60-1
- update to 7.60
* Mon Oct 27 2008 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> 7.51-1
- update to 7.51
* Wed May 28 2008 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> 7.25-2
- get rid of empty arch-specific directories (bz 448744)
* Fri Apr 25 2008 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> 7.25-1
- update to 7.25
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update perl-Image-ExifTool' at the command line.
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