An update for Exiv2, a library and console tool to handle Exif, IPTC and XMP metadata, is out with only fixes.

The changes are:

• Exif metadata extraction for fixed for Pentax K-x DNG files;
• crash when writing Exif.Image.Software was fixed;
• a few regressions were fixed, including Panasonic RW2 missing information;
• configuration files (config.guess, config.sub) were updated;
• a new Color Label value was added to digiKam 2.0.0 XMP namespace.

Here you cam download source code and builds of Exiv2 for Windows.

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