What's Changed

• Simplify string creation by @drewnoakes in #637
• Copy paste error fixed by @GRuppert in #641
• Added code to parse OM System II makernote (uses Olympus II makernote) by @AndyDragon in #642
• Add HEIC/HEIF to README by @drewnoakes in #645
• Trim trailing null bytes from some string values by @drewnoakes in #647
• Fixed parsing of illegal dates + handle known null value by @StefanOltmann in #650
• Support AVIF / AV1 images by @StefanOltmann in #649
• maven.yml fixed after branch rename by @StefanOltmann in #652
• Fixed wrong date/time when timezone is null by @StefanOltmann in #651
• Validate lengths before parsing JPEG data by @drewnoakes in #653
• Add Automatic-Module-Name by @tsmock in #621
• Add PDF support to detectFileType by @max-peroch in #665
• Fix of #676 by @ogawaffm in #677
• Issue #685 | Fix StringIndexOutOfBoundsException in ICC DESC tag processing by @DAN-MU-ZI in #687
• Bump Java version to 1.8 by @drewnoakes in #696
• Fix rounding error in shutter speed description by @drewnoakes in #695
• Extend file type detection by @drewnoakes in #697
• Issue #698 | add DJI metadata support (ported from .NET) by @SeanJayZeng in #700
• Added reference to Beeld, another Clojure wrapper for metadata-extractor by @danielsz in #701
• Fix ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in Extended XMP processing by @alicanalbayrak in #712
• Fix Adobe XMP imports in 'Samples' by @imagingbook in #714
• Improve comment for TAG_SUB_IFD_OFFSET (0x014a) by @matthias-ronge in #715
• Add Automatic-Module-Name to build.gradle by @ChristophKaser in #718

New Contributors

• @GRuppert made their first contribution in #641
• @AndyDragon made their first contribution in #642
• @StefanOltmann made their first contribution in #650
• @tsmock made their first contribution in #621
• @max-peroch made their first contribution in #665
• @ogawaffm made their first contribution in #677
• @DAN-MU-ZI made their first contribution in #687
• @SeanJayZeng made their first contribution in #700
• @alicanalbayrak made their first contribution in #712
• @imagingbook made their first contribution in #714
• @matthias-ronge made their first contribution in #715
• @ChristophKaser made their first contribution in #718

Full Changelog: 2.19.0...2.20.0

What's Changed

• Update ExifDirectoryBase.java. Added Exif 0x4749 (Rating Percent). by @Skyfish1 in #587
• Fix ClassCastException when parsing Apple metadata of unexpected type by @mveunen in #589
• In case of an ico file a height or with of 0 actually means 256 by @mveunen in #592
• Fix PNG iTXt encoding issue by @drewnoakes in #611
• Set up GitHub actions for CI builds by @drewnoakes in #613
• Fix Exif thumbnail offset by @drewnoakes in #612
• Fix encoding problem when CodedCharacterSet is set to "ESC - A" by @kenwa in #615
• Fujifilm enhancements by @danielsz in #619
• Identify some unknown Nikon makernote tags by @drewnoakes in #622
• fix:set locale to en/us to format numbers with ".", not "," by @TSGames in #625
• Nikon PictureControl directory extraction by @gtiwari333 in #635

New Contributors

• @Skyfish1 made their first contribution in #587
• @mveunen made their first contribution in #589
• @kenwa made their first contribution in #615
• @danielsz made their first contribution in #619
• @TSGames made their first contribution in #625
• @gtiwari333 made their first contribution in #635

Full Changelog: 2.18.0...2.19.0

What's Changed

• Fix integer addition overflow. by @cniles in #570
• Significant MP4 and QuickTime refactoring
• Fixed issues identified by fuzzing in #561
• Better RIFF error reporting
• Improved Rational value presentation in some cases
• Support more Sony lens models
• Improve HEIF/HEIC rotation description
• Validate Metadata.addDirectory not passed null

New Contributors

• @cniles made their first contribution in #570

Full Changelog: 2.17.0...2.18.0

What's Changed

• Replace FilterInputStream with InputStream in FileTypeDetector by @drewnoakes in #541
• Allow Application Notes (XMP) in SubIFD by @drewnoakes in #540
• Fix reading arrays of Float64 in TIFF files by @fclof in #548
• Reconyx HyperFire 2 Support by @IntelliDevPeep in #550

New Contributors

• @fclof made their first contribution in #548
• @IntelliDevPeep made their first contribution in #550

Full Changelog: 2.16.0...2.17.0

• Detect 3gp5 as MP4 (0fafa2f)
• Treat "ftyp" with unknown 4CC as QuickTime (9ab28c0)
• Only allocate string when "ftyp" present (24efd33)
• Bump com.adobe.xmpcore to 6.1.11 (#514)
• Added KeyValuePair.toString() (#523)
• Added Schema.PHOTOSHOP_PROPERTIES (#522)
• Overflowing a short length so it goes negative and screws up the byte read pointer (#524)
• fixing the MP4 rotation angle value (#533)
• Avoid reading unused bytes from PNG streams (#535)

• Read Exif from PNG images (#481)
• Remove Class-Path entry from MANIFEST in jar (#483)
• Remove AWT dependency (#485)
• Update name of ICC cprt tag from "Copyright" to "Profile Copyright" (#488)
• Add CRX and other MP4/QuickTime file type detection (#493)
• Fix 1 Jan 1904 epoch value (#498)
• Improve Samsung makernote detection (#506)
• Preserve QuickTime video rotation sign (961ad72)

• Support Exif in HEIC/HEIF (#478)
• Fix exception in HEIC/HEIF handling (#470)
• Support QuickTime rotation (#466)
• Support MP4 GPS latitude/longitude (#466)
• Improve time zone parsing (#466)
• Improve Canon makernote quality description (#461)
• Improved Apple makernote support (75c5f5e)
• Improved Samsung makernote support (964a042)
• Convert PngColorType from enum to class to support unknown values (f66b905)
• Remove uses of printStackTrace (#456)
• Handle WebP with Exif preamble (#473)
• Fix bug in Exif GPS dest longitude description (#430)
• Update time zone tag names (b694a7e)
• Rename FileType.Mov to FileType.QuickTime (fa92cfa)

• Fix java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: java.awt.Point on Android (#409)
• Set epoch to UTC in MP4 (#410)
• Fix potential stack overflow in PanasonicRawWbInfo2 (#420)
• Change detectFileType to take FilterInputStream (#425)
• Fix build under Java 11 (#432)
• Support ISO-8859-1 encoding (#436)
• Make MP4/QuickTime handlers safe for parallel use (#438)
• Correctly close EPS file stream (400ce16)
• Improve file type detection's use of streams (#450)
• Fix unit tests on Windows (#452)
• Improve MP3 detection (#454)
• Support MP4 UUID and MOV XMP boxes (#451, #455)

• Add HEIF support (#314)
• Support MP4 duration in seconds (#321)
• Support QuickTime duration in seconds (#322)
• Fix null return from PngDescriptor.getBackgroundColorDescription() (#325)
• Remove XMP array and struct parent properties (#326)
• Fix MOV/MP4 parsing issues (#330)
• Improve Quicktime Metadata Atom handling (#331)
• Exif GPS directory and descriptor updates (#333)
• Basic support for MP3 files (without ID3) (#337)
• Add several private ICC tags used by Apple (#340)
• Support extraction of ICC Profile and Photoshop settings embedded in IFD0 of TIFF file (#341)
• Show XMP tags in ImageMetadataReader main method (#342)
• Add Exif 2.31 tags (#343)
• Add getDateModified() methods to get composite values from multiple Exif tags (#344)
• Calculate rotation from track header box (tkhd) (#349)
• Fix getFlashDescription() when flash is off (#356)
• Fix NikonType2 getPowerUpTimeDescription (#366)
• Fix bug in getLong64() (#365)
• Ignore invalid GIF XMP blocks (#367)
• Support AVI/MOV date times (5c5756f)
• Remove duplicate tags (91d800e)
• Use "km/h" over "kph" in descriptions (6f9fb56)
• Add ExifDirectoryBase.TAG_PHOTOSHOP_SETTINGS name (6df33da)
• Set parent dir for ICC/Photoshop dirs in Exif (cfd2a10)
• Fix some null pointer exceptions in MP4 code (#369)
• Fix for "Auto" noise reduction setting on Olympus cameras (#339)
• Update xmpcore to 6.0.6 (#382)
• Fix slow XMP parsing by limiting photoshop:DocumentAncestors node size (#394)
• Fix frame rate calculation using handler duration (#387)

• Add support for AVI files
• Add support for MP4 files
• Add support for QuickTime files
• Add support for EPS files
• Add support for WAV files
• Add support for encrypted Nikon makernote tags
• Add support for IPTC Extended DataSet Tags
• Add support for PhotoShop paths
• Extend BMP format support
• Extend GIF format support
• Extend detected file types
• Extend FileType enum to include friendly name, MIME type and expected file extensions
• Rename FileMetadataReader to FileSystemMetadataReader
• Various bug fixes

Thanks to all contributors, but especially to @payton who is responsible for the vast majority of work in this release.