Representation changed of panasonic:internalserialnumber

[wschulte]

System: Linux mint 20.3

Already since years I use exiftool to my great satisfaction to keep up in organizing my pictures.
To keep track the exact source (in terms of camera) I use the Make/Model tags AND a serial number.For Panasonic I use the tag "panasonic:internalserialnumber". All went ok until I updated to 12.57 from 11.88. So I experimented a bit with versions 12.00 and 12.60.

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Image-ExifTool-12.00$ ./exiftool -ver
12.00
Image-ExifTool-12.00$ ./exiftool -s '-panasonic:internalserialnumber' ../P1200698.JPG
InternalSerialNumber            : XER1609070119

In 12.60 it all looks the same as in 11.88.

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Image-ExifTool-12.60$ ./exiftool -ver
12.60
Image-ExifTool-12.60$ ./exiftool -s '-panasonic:internalserialnumber' ../P1200698.JPG
InternalSerialNumber            : (XER) 2016:09:07 no. 0119

But in 12.60 this look garbled: I see a part of the serial ("XER"), a date ("2016:09:07") I don't recognize and something unknown to me.

Why is the representation changed ?

[StarGeek]

From version 12.32
   Fixed formatting of InternalSerialNumber for some Panasonic cameras

See this thread.

Sidenote, Google failed to find that thread.  I had to resort to Yandex

[wschulte]

From version 12.32
  Fixed formatting of InternalSerialNumber for some Panasonic cameras

See this thread.

Sidenote, Google failed to find that thread.  I had to resort to Yandex

@StarGeek: thanks for that thread, I never found it  It clarifies what i am looking at.