# MiniExiftool 0.7.0 released

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**Created:** [July 7, 2008, 10:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/miniexiftool-0-7-0-released/142427 "2008-07-07T22:00:36Z")\
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MiniExiftool version 0.7.0 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.rb config  
ruby setup.rb setup  
sudo ruby setup.rb install

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

Changes:

- Changing composite behaviour: Composite tags are now included as  
standard!
- New method MiniExiftool.opts which returns a hash of the standard  
options used for MiniExiftool.new
- New option :convert\_encoding for MiniExiftool.new which uses the  
-L-option of the exiftool command-line application (see online  
documentation for it)  
Thanks to Henning Kulander for the causing of this change.