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• Fix incorrect Apple makernote tag names (ff727e048171cc580e6ef06ac07c9d5fbac75e46)
• Add AppleMakernoteDirectory.TagLivePhotoId (e656833633bf72d23e201690152121ff60fde7f0)
• Support Exif in PNG files (095effcbfb238d87cfd34c07a51a966c76629349)
• Support for ISO8601 format in directory GetDateTime (@michafrank #257)
• Extract GPS data from Android QuickTime files (@kirk-marple #262)
• Add XMP support in HEIF files (ISO-14496) (@kastwey #263)
• Fix box reading alignment issue in HEIF files (@kastwey #263)
• Fix box ordering issue in HEIF files (@kastwey #263)
• Don't stop reading QuickTime metadata when non-default locale encountered (@kastwey #264)
• Convert parsed dates with offsets to UTC (fa99f6214e504fe1a69107afca603837d698a8bc)
• Add more date/time parsing patterns with time-zone offsets (69c32859f41f5cc511f6fae6ade0a8da215c12f3)
• Add more QuickTime metadata tags and descriptors (82a11533b1efdd239e9b910874755c069bdf39d2)
• Support "Android Version" tag in QuickTime (396ace86f3f9ee23e89b07cbc37a1d10f2a610c7)

• Fix API handling (#255)
• Support Date/Time Original in AVI
• Improve Samsung Makernote support
• Improve Apple Makernote support

• Fix WebP parsing bug that excluded Exif, ICC, etc
• Support recoverable data error in WebP Exif data (drewnoakes/metadata-extractor#473)

• HEIC / HEIF support (#249 by @DrJohnMelville)
• Differentiate between MP4 and MOV files (#251)

This release also introduced and configured analyzers to assist with code quality and consistency.

• Restore position of FileTypeDirectory in results
• Don't throw for known but unsupported file types
• Fix a C# 8 Nullable Reference Types annotation
• Enable deterministic builds and fix SourceLink configuration

• Add TGA support (@dmitry-shechtman #233)
• Fix clipping path name/information (@kwhopper #235)
• Add EPS support (@kwhopper #236)
• Fix "Auto" noise reduction setting (@kwhopper #237)
• Improve QuickTime support, including GPS and CreationDate (@d5smith #241)
• Add support for Reconyx makernote type 3 (@patricksadowski #242)
• Prevent negative length in "Ducky" data (@patricksadowski #243)
• Use invariant culture for regression tests (@patricksadowski #244)
• Add MP3 support (@drewnoakes #245)
• Upgrade SourceLink (@drewnoakes)

• Add Canon Quality descriptions (@dmitry-shechtman #226)
• Add timezone tags (@dmitry-shechtman #223)
• Fix GetAllExtensions bounds check (@dmitry-shechtman #222)
• Extract XMP from CRX (@dmitry-shechtman #225)
• Register text encodings under netstandard2.0
• Add WAV support (@dmitry-shechtman in #215)
• Fix parsing of IPTC versions having more than two bytes (#214)
• Improve PNG raw profile parsing (@drewnoakes)
• Add string timezone tags (@dmitry-shechtman)
• Fix uint parsing of StringValue (@kwhopper #199)
• Add CRX record modes (@dmitry-shechtman #208)
• Migrate to C# 8 and annotate nullability of references
• Add initial CR3 support (@dmitry-shechtman #205)
• Catch PNG chunk processing errors (@kwhopper #201)
• Add more ICC tags (@kwhopper #200)
• Extend and improve GPS support (@kwhopper #198)
• Add support for JPEG Huffman tables (@kwhopper #197)
• Fix potential stack overflow (@drewnoakes #190)
• Update Exif white balance descriptions to match spec
• Extend GIF control support (@kwhopper #181)
• Fix AVI duration time presentation (@kwhopper #179)
• Fix PNG background colour description (@kwhopper #182)
• Extend BMP support (@kwhopper #185)
• Catch PNG iCCP decompression errors (@kwhopper #183)
• Fix Nikon type 2 makernote power-up time description (@kwhopper #178, #180)
• Support more ICC and Photoshop data in Exif (@kwhopper #176)
• Add Exif brightness descriptor and improve exposure program description (@kwhopper #177)
• Upgrade XmpCore package to 6.1.10 (@drewnoakes)
• Use snupkg for debug symbols (@drewnoakes)
• Fix QuickTime compatible brands description (@KleasMcHolthuis #227)
• Enable SourceLink (@drewnoakes #229)

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

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

New features

• Add support for AVI files #117
• Add support for DJI makernotes #119, #164
• Add support for GPS horizontal position error tag #133
• Add FileTypeDirectory
• Add support for XMP data in GIF files #143
• Add support for Extended DataSet Tag in IPTC
• Add support for QuickTime transformation matrix and rotation #152
• Add netstandard2.0 support #120
• Add differentiation between RIFF formats (WAV, AVI, WebP)

Fixes

• Fix trailing null bytes when handling XMP data #154
• Fix returning null GIF extension blocks #143
• Fix validation in IptcReader
• Prevent unhandled exception for platforms without SHIFT-JIS encoding
• Fix bounds error in DirectoryExtensions.GetInt64 #161
• Fix issue with flash description #142

Other

• Bump XmpCore package version to 5.1.3.1

• Reconyx makernote improvements