wimlib 1.14.0 released

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wimlib 1.14.0 released

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wimlib 1.14.0 has been released. List of changes:
  • Removed libxml2 and libcrypto (OpenSSL) as dependencies of wimlib. Also removed winpthreads as a dependency of wimlib on Windows.
  • Upgraded the support for mounting WIM images on Linux from fuse2 to fuse3. fuse2 is no longer supported.
  • Converted the README, README.WINDOWS, and NEWS files to Markdown.
  • Simplified the process of building wimlib for Windows. See README.WINDOWS for the updated instructions, which use MSYS2 instead of Cygwin. Windows ARM64 builds are now supported (experimentally) as well.
  • Improved performance on CPUs that have SHA-1 instructions in cases where wimlib wasn't using OpenSSL, e.g. the Windows binaries.
  • Fixed a bug in wimsplit where it didn't accept part sizes of 4 GiB or larger on Windows and on 32-bit platforms.
  • wimupdate now supports the --ref option. It should be specified when updating a delta WIM to avoid two minor issues.
  • wimoptimize now has better default behavior when converting to and from solid archives, i.e. WIM <=> ESD. It now is consistent with wimcapture and wimexport. For WIM => ESD, wimoptimize --solid now works. Before, the needed command was wimoptimize --solid --compress=LZMS --chunk-size=128K. For ESD => WIM, wimoptimize --compress=LZX now works. Before, the needed command was wimoptimize --compress=LZX --chunk-size=32K.
  • Removed support for Windows XP.
  • Added a GitHub Actions workflow that tests wimlib.
The files and their SHA-256 checksums are:

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