MIME Types Changes by Version¶ ↑

3.2019.0331 / 2019-03-31¶ ↑

• Updated the IANA media registry entries as of release date.

• Added support for application/wasm with extension .wasm. #21

• Fixed application/ecmascript extensions. #20

3.2018.0812 / 2018-08-12¶ ↑

• Added .xsd extension to text/xml. #10

• Added .js and .mjs extensions to text/ecmascript and text/javascript. #11

• Added .ipa extension to application/octet-stream. #12

• Moved extensions .markdown and .md and added .mkd extension to text/markdown. #13

• Because of a bug found with mime-types 3 before 3.2.1, this version requires mime-types 3.1 or later to manage data.

• Updated the IANA media registry entries as of release date. The biggest major change here is the addition of the font/ top-level media type.

• MIME type changes not introduced by pull requests will no longer be individually tracked.

• Clarified that the YAML editable format is not shipped with the Ruby gem for size considerations.

3.2016.0521 / 2016-05-21¶ ↑

• Updated the known extension list for application/octet-stream and application/pgp-encrypted to include gpg as an extension. Fixes #3 by Tao Guo (@taoza).

• Updated the IANA media registry entries as of release date:

  • Updated metadata for application/EmergencyCallData.Comment+xml, application/EmergencyCallData.DeviceInfo+xml, application/EmergencyCallData.ProviderInfo+xml, application/EmergencyCallData.ServiceInfo+xml, application/EmergencyCallData.SubscriberInfo+xml, application/ogg, application/problem+json, application/problem+xml, audio/ogg, text/markdown, video/H265, video/ogg.

  • Added application/efi, application/vnd.3gpp.sms+xml, application/vnd.3lightssoftware.imagescal, application/vnd.coreos.ignition+json, application/vnd.oma.lwm2m+json, application/vnd.onepager, application/vnd.quarantainenet, application/vnd.vel+json, image/emf, image/wmf, text/prs.prop.logic.

  • image/bmp has a draft RFC which would make it official; it has been finally been registered. As such, this version reverses the use-instead relationship of image/bmp and image/x-bmp.

• This version requires mime-types 3.1 or later to manage data because of an issue with JSON data encoding for the xrefs field.

3.2016.0221 / 2016-02-21¶ ↑

• Updated the known extensions list for audio/mp4.

• Updated the IANA media registry entries as of release date:

  • Updated metadata for 3GPP-defined types (there are many), application/cdni, and application/rfc+xml.

  • Added application/EmergencyCallData.Comment+xml, application/EmergencyCallData.DeviceInfo+xml, application/EmergencyCallData.ProviderInfo+xml, application/EmergencyCallData.ServiceInfo+xml, application/ppsp-tracker+json, application/problem+json, application/problem+xml, application/vnd.filmit.zfc, application/vnd.hdt, application/vnd.mapbox-vector-tile, application/vnd.ms-PrintDeviceCapabilities+xml, application/vnd.ms-PrintSchemaTicket+xml, application/vnd.ms-windows.nwprinting.oob, application/vnd.tml, model/vnd.rosette.annotated-data-model, and video/H265.

• Updated to Contributor Covenant 1.4.

• Shift the support code in this repository to be developed with Ruby 2.3. This involves:

  • Adding frozen_string_literal: true to all Ruby files.

  • Applied some recommended readability and performance suggestions from Rubocop. Ignored some style recommendations, too.

  • Replaced some cases of foo.bar rescue nil with foo&.bar.

3.2015.1120 / 2015-11-20¶ ↑

• Extracted from ruby-mime-types.

• Added a Code of Conduct.

• The versioning has changed to be semantic on format plus date in two parts.

  • All registry formats have been updated to remove deprecated data.

  • The columnar format has been updated to store three boolean flags in a single flags file.

• Updated the conversion and management utilities to work with ruby-mime-types 3.x.

• Updated the IANA media registry entries as of release date:

  • Updated metadata for application/scim+json, audio/G711-0, text/markdown.

  • Added application/cdni, application/csvm+json, application/rfc+xml, application/vnd.3gpp.access-transfer-events+xml, application/vnd.3gpp.srvcc-ext+xml, application/vnd.3gpp.SRVCC-info+xml, application/vnd.ms-windows.devicepairing, application/vnd.ms-windows.wsd.oob, application/vnd.oxli.countgraph, application/vnd.pagerduty+json, video/VP8.

2.6.2 / 2015-09-13¶ ↑

• Updated the IANA media registry entries as of release date:

  • Updated metadata for application/cals-1840, application/index.obj, application/ocsp-response, application/vnd.dtg.local.html, application/vnd.pwg-multiplexed, audio/G7221, audio/opus.

  • Added application/pkcs12, application/scim+json, multipart/form-data. application/vnd.3gpp-prose+xml, application/vnd.3gpp-prose-pc3ch+xml, application/vnd.3gpp.mid-call+xml, application/vnd.3gpp-state-and-event-info+xml, application.3gpp.ussd+xml, application/vnd.anki, application/vnd.biopax.rdf+xml, application/vnd.drive+json, application/vnd.firemonkeys.cloudcell, application/vnd.hyperdrive+json, application/vnd.openblox.game+xml, application/vnd.openblox.game-binary, application/vnd.uri-map, audio/G711-0, image/vnd.mozilla.apng.

2.6 / 2015-05-25¶ ↑

• Steven Michael Thomas (@stevenmichaelthomas) added woff2 as an extension to application/font-woff, ruby-mime-types#99.

• Updated the IANA media registry entries as of release date:

  • Updated metadata for application/jose, application/jose+json, application/jwk+json, application/jwk-set+json, application/jwt to reflect the adoption of RFC7519.

  • Added application/vnd.balsamiq.bmpr.

2.5 / 2015-04-25¶ ↑

• Updated the IANA media registry entries as of release date:

  • Added MIME types: application/A2L, application/AML, application/ATFX, application/ATXML, application/CDFX+XML, application/CEA, application/DII, application/DIT, application/jose, application/jose+json, application/json-seq, application/jwk+json, application/jwk-set+json, application/jwt, application/LXF, application/MF4, application/rdap+json, application/vnd.apache.thrift.compact, vnd.apache.thrift.json, application/vnd.citationstyles.style+xml, application/vnd.coffeescript, application/vnd.enphase.envoy, application/vnd.fastcopy-disk-image, application/vnd.gerber, application/vnd.gov.sk.e-form+xml, application/vnd.gov.sk.e-form+zip, application/vnd.gov.sk.xmldatacontainer+xml, application/vnd.ims.imsccv1p1, application/vnd.ims.imsccv1p2, application/vnd.ims.imsccv1p3, application/vnd.micro+json, application/vnd.microsoft.portable-executable, application/vnd.msa-disk-image, application/vnd.oracle.resource+json, application/vnd.tmd.mediaflex.api+xml, audio/opus, image/vnd.zbrush.pcx, text/csv-schema, text/markdown (marked as TEMPORARY).

  • Updated metadata for application/coap-group+json (RFC7390), application/epub+zip (now registered), application/merge-patch+json (RFC7396), application/smil, application/vnd.arastra.swi, application/vnd.geocube+xml, application/vnd.gmx, application/xhtml+xml, text/directory.

• Andy Brody (@ab) fixed a pair of embarrassing typos in text/csv and text/tab-separated-values, ruby-mime-types#89.

• Aggelos Avgerinos (@eavgerinos) added the unregistered MIME type image/x-ms-bmp with the extension bmp, ruby-mime-types#90.

2.4.2 / 2014-10-15¶ ↑

• Added application/vnd.ms-outlook as an unregistered MIME type with the extension msg. Provided by @keerthisiv in ruby-mime-types#72.

2.4.1 / 2014-10-07¶ ↑

• Changed the sort order of many of the extensions to restore behaviour from mime-types 1.25.1.

• Added friendly MIME::Type descriptions where known.

• Added reg, ps1, and vbs extensions to application/x-msdos-program and application/x-msdownload.

• Updated the IANA media registry entries as of release date.

  • Several MIME types had updated metadata (application/alto-*, RFC7285; application/calendar+json, RFC7265; application/http, RFC7230; application/xml, RFC7303; application/xml-dtd, RFC7303; application/xml-external-parsed-entity, RFC7303; audio/AMR-WB, RFC4867; audio/aptx, RFC7310; message/http, RFC7230; multipart/byteranges, RFC7233; text/xml, RFC7303; text/xml-external-parsed-entity, RFC7303)

  • MIME::Type application/EDI-Consent was renamed to application/EDI-consent.

  • Obsoleted application/vnd.informix-visionary in favour of application/vnd.visionary. Obsoleted application/vnd.nokia.n-gage.symbian.install with no replacement.

  • Added MIME types: application/ATF, application/coap-group+json, application/DCD, application/merge-patch+json, application/scaip+xml, application/vnd.apache.thrift.binary, application/vnd.artsquare, application/vnd.doremir.scorecloud-binary-document, application/vnd.dzr, application/vnd.maxmind.maxmind-db, application/vnd.ntt-local.ogw_remote-access, application/xml-patch+xml, image/vnd.tencent.tap.

2.3 / 2014-05-23¶ ↑

• Updated the IANA media registry entries as of release date.

  • Several MIME types had additional metadata added on the most recent import.

  • MIME::Type application/pidfxml was renamed to application/pidf+xml.

  • Added MIME types: application/3gpdash-qoe-report+xml, application/alto-costmap+json, application/alto-costmapfilter+json, application/alto-directory+json, application/alto-endpointcost+json, application/alto-endpointcostparams+json, application/alto-endpointprop+json, application/alto-endpointpropparams+json, application/alto-error+json, application/alto-networkmap+json, application/alto-networkmapfilter+json, application/calendar+json, application/vnd.debian.binary-package, application/vnd.geo+json, application/vnd.ims.lis.v2.result+json, application/vnd.ims.lti.v2.toolconsumerprofile+json, application/vnd.ims.lti.v2.toolproxy+json, application/vnd.ims.lti.v2.toolproxy.id+json, application/vnd.ims.lti.v2.toolsettings+json, application/vnd.ims.lti.v2.toolsettings.simple+json, application/vnd.mason+json, application/vnd.miele+json, application/vnd.ms-3mfdocument, application/vnd.panoply, application/vnd.valve.source.material, application/vnd.yaoweme, audio/aptx, image/vnd.valve.source.texture, model/vnd.opengex, model/vnd.valve.source.compiled-map, model/x3d+fastinfoset, text/cache-manifest

2.2 / 2014-03-14¶ ↑

• Added .sj to application/javascript as provided by Brandon Galbraith (@brandongalbraith) in ruby-mime-types#58.

• Marked application/excel and application/x-excel as obsolete in favour of application/vnd.ms-excel per ruby-mime-types#60.

• Merged duplicate MIME types into the registered MIME type. The only difference between the MIME types was capitalization; the MIME type registry is case-preserving.

  • Affected MIME types: application/vnd.3M.Post-it-Notes, application/vnd.FloGraphIt, application/vnd.HandHeld-Entertainment+xml, application/vnd.hp-HPGL, application/vnd.hp-PCL, application/vnd.hp-PCLXL, application/vnd.ibm.MiniPay, application/vnd.Kinar, application/vnd.MFER, application/vnd.Mobius.DAF, application/vnd.Mobius.DIS, application/vnd.Mobius.MBK, application/vnd.Mobius.MSL, application/vnd.Mobius.MQY, application/vnd.Mobius.PLC, application/vnd.Mobius.TXF, application/vnd.ms-excel.addin.macroEnabled.12, application/vnd.ms-excel.sheet.binary.macroEnabled.12, application/vnd.ms-excel.sheet.macroEnabled.12, application/vnd.ms-excel.template.macroEnabled.12, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.addin.macroEnabled.12, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.presentation.macroEnabled.12, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.slide.macroEnabled.12, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.slideshow.macroEnabled.12, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.template.macroEnabled.12, application/vnd.ms-word.document.macroEnabled.12, application/vnd.ms-word.template.macroEnabled.12, application/vnd.novadigm.EDM, application/vnd.novadigm.EDX, application/vnd.novadigm.EXT, application/vnd.Quark.QuarkXPress, application/vnd.SimTech-MindMapper, audio/AMR-WB, video/H261, video/H263, video/H264, video/JPEG, video/MJ2.

  • Affected MIME types: application/vnd.3M.Post-it-Notes, application/vnd.FloGraphIt, application/vnd.HandHeld-Entertainment+xml, application/vnd.hp-HPGL, application/vnd.hp-PCL, application/vnd.hp-PCLXL, application/vnd.ibm.MiniPay, application/vnd.Kinar, application/vnd.MFER, application/vnd.Mobius.DAF, application/vnd.Mobius.DIS, application/vnd.Mobius.MBK, application/vnd.Mobius.MSL, application/vnd.Mobius.MQY, application/vnd.Mobius.PLC, application/vnd.Mobius.TXF, application/vnd.ms-excel.addin.macroEnabled.12, application/vnd.ms-excel.sheet.binary.macroEnabled.12, application/vnd.ms-excel.sheet.macroEnabled.12, application/vnd.ms-excel.template.macroEnabled.12, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.addin.macroEnabled.12, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.presentation.macroEnabled.12, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.slide.macroEnabled.12, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.slideshow.macroEnabled.12, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.template.macroEnabled.12, application/vnd.ms-word.document.macroEnabled.12, application/vnd.ms-word.template.macroEnabled.12, application/vnd.novadigm.EDM, application/vnd.novadigm.EDX, application/vnd.novadigm.EXT, application/vnd.Quark.QuarkXPress, application/vnd.SimTech-MindMapper, audio/AMR-WB, video/H261, video/H263, video/H264, video/JPEG, video/MJ2.

• Updated the IANA media registry entries as of release date.

  • Registered type person names have been updated from surname only to full name.

  • Several types had updated RFC or draft RFC references.

  • Added application/bacnet-xdd+zip, application/cms, application/load-control+xml, application/PDX, application/ttml+xml, application/vnd.collection.doc+json, application/vnd.iptc.g2.catalogitem+xml, application/vnd.pcos, text/parameters, text/vnd.a, video/iso.segment

2.1 / 2014-01-25¶ ↑

• The IANA media type registry format changed, resulting in updates to most of the 1,427 registered MIME types.

  • Many registered MIME types have had some metadata updates due to the change in the IANA registry format.

    • MIME types having a publicly available registry application now include a link to that file in references.

  • Added xrefs data as discovered (see the API changes noted above).

• The Apache mime types configuration has been added to track additional common but unregistered MIME types and known extensions for those MIME types. This has affected many of the available MIME types.

• Added newly registered MIME types:

  • application/emotionml+xml, application/ODX, application/prs.hpub+zip, application/vcard+json, application/vnd.bekitzur-stech+json, application/vnd.etsi.timestamp-token, application/vnd.oma.cab-feature-handler+xml, application/vnd.openeye.oeb, application/vnd.tcpdump.pcap, audio/amr-wb, model/x3d+xml, model/x3d-vrml

• Added 180 unregistered MIME types from the Apache list:

  • application/applixware, application/cu-seeme, application/docbook+xml, application/gml+xml, application/gpx+xml, application/gxf, application/java-archive, application/java-serialized-object, application/java-vm, application/jsonml+json, application/metalink+xml, application/omdoc+xml, application/onenote, application/pics-rules, application/rsd+xml, application/ssdl+xml, application/vnd.3m.post-it-notes, application/vnd.amazon.ebook, application/vnd.anser-web-funds-transfer-initiation, application/vnd.curl.car, application/vnd.curl.pcurl, application/vnd.dolby.mlp, application/vnd.ds-keypoint, application/vnd.flographit, application/vnd.handheld-entertainment+xml, application/vnd.hp-hpgl, application/vnd.hp-pcl, application/vnd.hp-pclxl, application/vnd.ibm.minipay, application/vnd.kinar, application/vnd.mfer, application/vnd.mobius.daf, application/vnd.mobius.dis, application/vnd.mobius.mbk, application/vnd.mobius.mqy, application/vnd.mobius.msl, application/vnd.mobius.plc, application/vnd.mobius.txf, application/vnd.ms-excel.addin.macroenabled.12, application/vnd.ms-excel.sheet.binary.macroenabled.12, application/vnd.ms-excel.sheet.macroenabled.12, application/vnd.ms-excel.template.macroenabled.12, application/vnd.ms-pki.seccat, application/vnd.ms-pki.stl, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.addin.macroenabled.12, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.presentation.macroenabled.12, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.slide.macroenabled.12, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.slideshow.macroenabled.12, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.template.macroenabled.12, application/vnd.ms-word.document.macroenabled.12, application/vnd.ms-word.template.macroenabled.12, application/vnd.novadigm.edm, application/vnd.novadigm.edx, application/vnd.novadigm.ext, application/vnd.quark.quarkxpress, application/vnd.rim.cod, application/vnd.rn-realmedia-vbr, application/vnd.simtech-mindmapper, application/vnd.symbian.install, application/winhlp, application/x-abiword, application/x-ace-compressed, application/x-authorware-bin, application/x-authorware-map, application/x-authorware-seg, application/x-bittorrent, application/x-blorb, application/x-bzip, application/x-cbr, application/x-cfs-compressed, application/x-chat, application/x-conference, application/x-dgc-compressed, application/x-doom, application/x-dtbncx+xml, application/x-dtbook+xml, application/x-dtbresource+xml, application/x-envoy, application/x-eva, application/x-font-bdf, application/x-font-ghostscript, application/x-font-linux-psf, application/x-font-otf, application/x-font-pcf, application/x-font-snf, application/x-font-ttf, application/x-font-type1, application/x-freearc, application/x-gca-compressed, application/x-glulx, application/x-gnumeric, application/x-gramps-xml, application/x-install-instructions, application/x-iso9660-image, application/x-lzh-compressed, application/x-mie, application/x-ms-application, application/x-ms-shortcut, application/x-ms-xbap, application/x-msbinder, application/x-mscardfile, application/x-msclip, application/x-msmediaview, application/x-msmetafile, application/x-msmoney, application/x-mspublisher, application/x-msschedule, application/x-msterminal, application/x-mswrite, application/x-nzb, application/x-pkcs12, application/x-pkcs7-certificates, application/x-pkcs7-certreqresp, application/x-research-info-systems, application/x-silverlight-app, application/x-sql, application/x-stuffitx, application/x-subrip, application/x-t3vm-image, application/x-tads, application/x-tex-tfm, application/x-tgif, application/x-xfig, application/x-xliff+xml, application/x-xz, application/x-zmachine, application/xaml+xml, application/xproc+xml, application/xspf+xml, audio/adpcm, audio/amr-wb, audio/AMR-WB, audio/midi, audio/s3m, audio/silk, audio/x-caf, audio/x-flac, audio/x-matroska, audio/x-mpegurl, audio/xm, chemical/x-cdx, chemical/x-cif, chemical/x-cmdf, chemical/x-cml, chemical/x-csml, image/sgi, image/vnd.ms-photo, image/x-3ds, image/x-cmx, image/x-freehand, image/x-icon, image/x-mrsid-image, image/x-pcx, image/x-tga, model/x3d+binary, model/x3d+vrml, text/plain, text/vnd.curl.dcurl, text/vnd.curl.mcurl, text/vnd.curl.scurl, text/x-asm, text/x-c, text/x-fortran, text/x-java-source, text/x-nfo, text/x-opml, text/x-pascal, text/x-sfv, text/x-uuencode, video/h261, video/h263, video/h264, video/jpeg, video/jpm, video/mj2, video/x-f4v, video/x-m4v, video/x-mng, video/x-ms-vob, video/x-smv

• Merged the non-standard VMS platform text/plain with the standard text/plain.