# \[ANN\] MiniExiftool 0.5.0 released

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**Created:** [February 1, 2008, 12:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-miniexiftool-0-5-0-released/127757 "2008-02-01T00:16:15Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 12:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-miniexiftool-0-5-0-released/127757/1 "2008-02-01T00:16:15Z")

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MiniExiftool version 0.5.0 released!

[http://miniexiftool.rubyforge.org/](http://miniexiftool.rubyforge.org/)

MiniExiftool is a wrapper library for the Exiftool command-line  
application (www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/) written by Phil  
Harvay. One of the completest tool for reading and writing meta  
informations (EXIF, IPTC, XMP) on image files which supports many file  
formats including raw formats.

Installation:  
gem install mini\_exiftool

or alternative download the tarball and run  
ruby setup config  
ruby setup setup  
sudo ruby setup install

Tutorial:  
[http://miniexiftool.rubyforge.org/files/Tutorial.html](http://miniexiftool.rubyforge.org/files/Tutorial.html)

Changes:

- New option :timestamps to create DateTime objects instead of Time  
objects for timestamps (Fixing bug #16328)
- Invalid values of timestamps (i.e. 0000:00:00 00:00:00) are now  
mapped to false