News and announcements
pyexiv2 0.3.0 released
Written for pyexiv2 by Olivier Tilloy on 2010-12-31
I am pleased to announce that pyexiv2 0.3.0 was released today.
This series remains fully backward compatible with its predecessor, the 0.2 series, which should ease the transition away from the antiquated 0.1 series.
The highlights of this release are:
- Compiles and tested (on linux and windows) against libexiv2 0.19, 0.20, 0.21
- ImageMetadata implements the collections.
- 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)
A list of all the bugs fixed is available at https:/
The source tarball is available at http://
Packages for Ubuntu (Lucid, Maverick and Natty) will soon be available in the pyexiv2-developers' PPA (https:/
Many thanks to everyone who contributed with bug reports, patches, testing and suggestions. As usual, your feedback is much appreciated.
And a happy new year!
Exiv2 0.20 released
Written for pyexiv2 by Olivier Tilloy on 2010-05-31
Exiv2 0.20 was released yesterday (see announcement at http://
Packages for Maverick
Written for pyexiv2 by Olivier Tilloy on 2010-05-29
pyexiv2 0.2.2 (the latest release) is now available as packages for Ubuntu 10.10, aka the "Maverick Meerkat", in pyexiv2-developer's PPA (https:/
pyexiv2 0.2.2 released
Written for pyexiv2 by Olivier Tilloy on 2010-05-27
pyexiv2 0.2.2 was released today.
This is a maintenance release that fixes two memory leaks, optimizes the use of the underlying libexiv2 (expect performance improvements), improves the API documentation, restores access to the image comments (was a regression from the 0.1 series) and adds an optional parameter to preserve timestamps when writing metadata.
The source tarball and a Windows installer are already available, and packages for Ubuntu 10.04 will follow shortly.
As usual, feedback and bug reports are welcome!
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pyexiv2 0.2.1 released
Written for pyexiv2 by Olivier Tilloy on 2010-04-26
pyexiv2 0.2.1 was released today.
This is a maintenance release that fixes a critical memory leak and makes it easier to generate the documentation and run the unit tests.
The source tarball and a Windows installer are already available, and packages for Ubuntu 10.04 will follow shortly.
As usual, feedback and bug reports are welcome!
