Exiv2

This release introduces support for Postscript (EPS) images. XMP metadata can be read and written from/to EPS images, and previews are accessible. It also includes a new build environment for MSVC 64-bit builds and a number of smaller features and bugfixes.

This bugfix release fixes several issues that were found in version 0.21. The library is binary compatible with 0.21, i.e. suitable as a drop-in replacement.

This release adds read and write support for Samsung SRW images and Samsung makernotes. The exiv2 library now accepts a custom error handler and has a setting to control which messages are generated. The exiv2 command line tool has a new "quiet" option which uses the new functionality to suppress all library warnings. Important API changes will allow many future image format and makernote enhancements to be done in a binary compatible fashion and the new exiv2.hpp umbrella header file further shields applications from library changes.

This release includes Sony, Nikon, and Pentax makernote updates and a significant performance improvement for Nikon makernotes. Writing to Minolta raw images (ORF) is now supported. Several TIFF tags and the XMP KDE Image Program Interface (kipi) schema, iView Media Pro schema, and Microsoft Expression Media schema have been added.

This release has a dramatically reduced memory footprint when writing to large TIFF and TIFF-based images, as the images are no longer completely loaded into memory. In addition, it improves the performance of read operations for such files by about a factor of six on Windows. It also provides extended Nikon makernote support. Exiv2 is now able to read and write many additional Nikon makernote tags, including encrypted tags.