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pyexiv2 0.3.0 "A Good Year" - 2010-12-31

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Dependencies:

- Python ≥ 2.6

- libexiv2 ≥ 0.19

- boost.python ≥ 1.38

Changes:

- Compiles and tested (on linux and windows) against libexiv2 0.19, 0.20, 0.21

- ImageMetadata implements the collections.MutableMapping interface

- Consistent API across all types of tags to access the value(s)

- Read/write access to the EXIF thumbnail

- Decode and encode EXIF comments according to the specified charset

- API to (un)register custom XMP namespaces

- API to get, set and delete the (optional) IPTC charset

- Added pickling support to tags

- Use fractions.Fraction when available in the standard library (Python ≥ 2.6)

Bugs fixed:

- 617557: Feature request: consistent getter/setter API for EXIF/IPTC/XMP

- 618540: Windows build for Python 2.7

- 644143: Failing to parse a raw value silently fails

- 677267: Crashes when trying to read Xmp.lr.hierarchicalSubject

- 684177: FTBFS against exiv2-0.21

- 559903: Please decode EXIF comments according to charset

- 587614: Where's the good old setThumbnailData in 0.2.X series ?

- 622739: Segmentation fault when replacing a tag by itself

- 624283: Unit tests fail with a non-unicode locale

- 624999: test_write_dont_preserve_timestamps fails

- 683232: assignment of fractions.Fraction to Exif.GPSInfo.GPSAltitude leads to

  backtrace

- 687373: Misleading exception raised when metadata not read

- 688209: test_write_exif_thumbnail_to_file fails on windows

- 461847: feature request: convenience function to set IPTC encoding to UTF-8

- 507620: Investigate the ability to catch stderr from libexiv2 in pyexiv

- 514415: Replace the Rational class by fractions.Fraction

- 549496: Feature request: Custom XMP namespaces

- 628735: Pickling an {Exif,Iptc,Xmp}Tag itself

- 648624: Feature request: inherit ImageMetadata from collections.MutableMapping

Contributors:

- Alexandre Rossi

- Antti Siira

- Matěj Cepl

- Olivier Tilloy

- Rob Healey

pyexiv2 0.2.2 "Holiday" - 2010-05-27

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Dependencies:

- Python ≥ 2.5

- libexiv2 ≥ 0.19

- boost.python ≥ 1.38

Changes:

- Fixed two memory leaks

- Optimized the use of the underlying libexiv2, expect improved performances

- Restored access to the image comment (was a regression from the 0.1 series)

- Added an optional parameter to preserve timestamps when writing metadata

- Improved API documentation

Bugs fixed:

- 581787: Metadata tags leak memory

- 582194: Reading an IPTC tag leaks memory

- 582445: Reading a tag off an image unnecessarily re-writes its value(s)

- 582733: Tag values are written twice

- 559931: Please restore ability to retrieve JPEG comment

- 564770: Document pyexiv2.metadata preview method and properties

- 461840: feature request : optionally preserve file timestamps

Contributors:

- Olivier Tilloy

pyexiv2 0.2.1 "Employment" - 2010-04-26

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Dependencies:

- Python ≥ 2.5

- libexiv2 ≥ 0.19

- boost.python ≥ 1.38

Changes:

This is a maintenance release that fixes a critical memory leak and makes it

easier to generate the documentation and run the unit tests.

Bugs fixed:

- 562525: memory leak in ImageMetadata.from_buffer

- 549398: Building the doc requires fiddling with the PYTHONPATH

- 549399: Add a "test" target to scons to run the unit tests

Contributors:

- Olivier Tilloy

pyexiv2 0.2.0 "Commuting" - 2010-03-25

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Dependencies:

- Python ≥ 2.5

- libexiv2 ≥ 0.19

- boost.python ≥ 1.38

Changes:

- Almost complete, not backward compatible, rewrite of the 0.1 branch

- Support reading and writing XMP metadata

- Support reading images from stream

- The API is fully documented, the documentation also includes a tutorial and

  detailed instructions for developers

- Compiled and tested on Linux and Windows

- The code is now reasonably covered by a battery of unit tests

Bugs fixed:

- 183337: Support of XMP metadata

- 332419: pyexiv2 can not open files with accents in filename on windows

- 343403: writing iptc field raises exception oldValues has no len() and/or

  newValues not iterable

- 363873: Pb setting IPTC Tags

- 369640: Thumbnail images from a variety of RAW images cannot be extracted

- 372321: GIL remains locked during metadata writes

- 389960: Can't write geotag data

- 392767: Error writing metadata after copying all from another image

- 421984: Iptc Keywords and SuppCat should always be tuples

- 503272: Doesn't compile against libexiv2 >= 0.19

- 510392: Adding values to a repeatable IPTC tag segfaults

- 514590: Longitude should accept 0 to 180 degrees

- 517536: pyexiv2 module is not installed

- 522216: Inserting a new tag doesn't update the list of keys

- 523858: Build fails on Ubuntu Karmic (and others)

- 183618: Exif.GPSInfo.{GPSLongitude,Latitude} are not decoded

- 249835: pyexiv2 build ignores environmental variables for compilation

- 256875: Unable to add/modify multiple value short tags

- 401684: Support per-user site-packages

- 401876: Exif.CanonCs.LensType not interpreted

- 411730: lib is currently hardcoded in src/SConscript

- 461853: feature request : version information in code

- 510393: Setting an XMP seq to the empty list segfaults

- 514408: segfault when reading a nonexistent file

- 517298: Port ReadMetadataTestCase to 0.2

- 519566: Segmentation Fault when tried to read metadata from a non-image file

- 521404: pygtk example does not quit after closing window

- 379270: pyexiv2 access to pixelWidth and pixelHeight accessors?

- 518732: Add support for loading image streams

- 401784: Reimplement copyMetadataTo in cpp

Contributors:

- Damien Moore

- Mark Lee

- Olivier Tilloy

- Rob Wallace

- Xoff

pyexiv2 0.1.3 - 2009-03-14

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Dependencies:

- Python 2.5

- libexiv2 0.18

- boost.python 1.34.1

Changes:

- Adapted the thumbnail related methods (getThumbnailData, setThumbnailData,

  deleteThumbnail, dumpThumbnailToFile, setThumbnailFromJpegFile) to the new

  API of libexiv2 0.18.

- Removed the unused __main__ from pyexiv2.py.

pyexiv2 0.1.2 - 2008-02-09

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Dependencies:

- Python 2.5.1

- libexiv2 0.15

- boost.python 1.34.1

Changes:

- Fixed bug #177249: pyexiv2 should install in site-packages? (reported by

  Chris Mayo).

- Implemented feature request tracked by bug #175069: Retrieve/set the JPEG

  comment (feature requested by manatlan).

- Really fixed bug #146313: passing the filename to the Image constructor as

  unicode fails (reported by Michal Čihař).

- Fixed bug #173387: Error reading Exif.Photo.UserComment (reported by

  vincespicer).

- Fixed bug #175070: Deleting a tag not previously accessed raises a KeyError

  exception (reported by manatlan).

- Fixed bug #183618: Exif.GPSInfo.{GPSLongitude,Latitude} are not decoded

  (reported by dr who).

- Added a method to copy all EXIF and IPTC metadata and the comment from one

  image to another one (patch submitted by vincespicer).

- Added a rational number type (class pyexiv2.Rational) to handle rational

  values stored in EXIF tags.

- Fixed a bug that prevented from setting an EXIF tag with multiple values.

- Added some unit tests to test various basic functionalities and bug fixes.

- Fixed bug #183332: Cached metadata is not converted to its correct type

  (reported by Christopher Ellison).

pyexiv2 0.1.1 - 2007-10-14

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Dependencies:

- Python 2.5.1

- libexiv2 0.12

- boost.python 1.33.1

Changes:

- Fixed a bug due to interface changes for exceptions management in

  libexiv2 0.13 (reported by Damon Lynch).

- Added support for DESTDIR in SConscript for installation (feature

  requested by Michal Čihař).

- Fixed bug #146313: passing the filename to the Image constructor as

  unicode fails (reported by Michal Čihař).

- Fixed bug #146323: Multi value fields are broken (reported by Michal Čihař).

- Implemented feature request tracked by bug #147534: Provide access to

  interpreted (translated) data (feature requested by Michal Čihař).

- Implemented feature request tracked by bug #149212: Add access to tag labels

  (feature requested by Michal Čihař).

pyexiv2 0.1 - 2007-08-30

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Dependencies:

- Python 2.5.1

- libexiv2 0.12

- boost.python 1.33.1

This is the initial release of pyexiv2.