2 The library now permits making in-memory changes to a WIMStruct backed
3 by a read-only WIM file.
5 Fixes for "WIMBoot" extraction mode (Windows only):
7 When not using the WOF driver, extraction no longer fails if the
8 disk containing the WIM file has too many partitions.
10 When matching patterns in [PrepopulateList], all hard links of
11 each file are now considered.
13 The system registry files are now automatically treated as being
17 Made more improvements to the XPRESS, LZX, and LZMS compressors.
19 A number of improvements to the Windows port:
21 Fixes for setting short filenames.
23 Faster "WIMBoot" extraction.
25 Updated and slimmed down the dependent DLLs.
27 ACL inheritence bits are now restored.
29 Mandatory integrity labels are now backed up and restored.
31 Added a workaround for an issue where in rare cases, wimlib could create
32 a compressed data stream that could not be read correctly by Windows
33 after an extraction in "WIMBoot" mode.
36 Added file count progress data for
37 WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_FILE_STRUCTURE and
38 WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_METADATA.
40 Added support for testing file exclusions via the user-provided
43 Some documentation improvements.
45 Made some clarifications to the license text in the COPYING file.
48 Made more improvements to the XPRESS, LZX, and LZMS compressors.
50 The default compression mode for wimcapture is now LZX compression in
51 its default mode, which is the same as '--compress=maximum'.
53 You can now specify an optional integer compression level to the
54 '--compress' option; e.g. '--compress=lzx:75'.
56 Made a minor change to the LZMS compressor and decompressor to fix an
57 incompatibility with the Microsoft implementation. In the unlikely
58 event that you created an LZMS-compressed WIM with wimlib v1.7.0 or
59 earlier and a checksum error is reported when extracting files from it
60 with wimlib v1.7.1, decompress it with v1.7.0 then compress it with
63 Added 'verify' subcommand to wimlib-imagex.
65 Notable library changes:
67 Custom compressor parameters have been removed from the library
68 in favor of the simpler level-based API.
70 Decompressor parameters have been removed entirely.
72 Library users can now specify a custom file for warning and
73 error messages to be sent to, rather than the default of
76 New progress messages:
77 WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_FILE_STRUCTURE,
78 WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_METADATA.
80 New function: wimlib_verify_wim().
83 Improved compression, decompression, and extraction performance.
85 Improved compatibility with version 3584 WIM / ESD files:
86 - Add support for reading and writing multiple solid blocks per
87 archive, which WIMGAPI/DISM can create when appending an image.
88 - Correctly create solid blocks larger than 4 GiB.
90 'add' commands passed to wimupdate will now replace existing
91 nondirectory files by default. Use the --no-replace option to get the
94 The license for the library now contains an exception that allows using
95 it under the LGPL. See the COPYING file for details.
97 In reparse-point fixup mode (the default for capture), symbolic links
98 and junctions that point outside the tree being captured are no longer
99 excluded from capture.
101 Added support for "WIMBoot" capture and extraction. See the
102 documentation for the new '--wimboot' option to wimcapture and wimapply
103 for more information.
105 On UNIX-like systems, you can now backup and restore device nodes, named
106 pipes, and sockets. In addition, 32-bit user and group IDs are now
109 The way that UNIX data is stored in WIM files has been changed. If you
110 captured any WIMs with the --unix-data option, to upgrade them you'll
111 need to apply them with --unix-data using wimlib-imagex v1.6.2, then
112 re-capture them with --unix-data using this version.
114 wimlib now understands tagged metadata items, such as object IDs, that
115 can be stored in WIM directory entries.
117 Removed the --hardlink and --symlink options to wimapply, since I don't
118 think they are too useful and they got in the way of improving the code.
120 WIMs will now retain their GUIDs when rebuilt (e.g. with wimoptimize).
122 The 'mkwinpeimg' script now supports writing the ISO image to standard
125 The <ARCH> element in WIM XML data is now exported correctly.
127 On Windows, sparse file attributes are no longer set on extracted files.
128 Oddly enough, this actually saves disk space in some cases.
130 On UNIX, configuring with --disable-xattr or --enable-xattr is no longer
131 supported. Mounting WIM images now always requires extended attribute
132 support. Use --without-fuse to disable support for mounting WIM images;
133 this will also disable the need for extended attribute support.
135 Configuring with --enable-ssse3-sha1 now works correctly.
137 The shared library version has been bumped up. The main
138 incompatibilities are:
140 - WIMLIB_COMPRESSION_TYPE_XPRESS is now 1 and
141 WIMLIB_COMPRESSION_TYPE_LZX is now 2 (so it's the same as
144 - User-provided progress functions are now registered using a
145 separate function, wimlib_register_progress_function(). The
146 'progress_func' argument to many functions no longer exists.
148 - The return value from user-provided progress functions is now
151 - A context argument has been added to the prototype of
152 user-provided progress functions.
154 - 'struct wimlib_capture_config' has been removed. The library
155 now takes the path to the configuration file directly. This
156 affects wimlib_add_image(), wimlib_add_image_multisource(),
157 and wimlib_update_image(). However, a NULL value passed in
158 the argument retains the same meaning.
160 - Removed deprecated functions: some (de)compression functions,
161 wimlib_extract_files(), and wimlib_print_metadata().
163 - Removed extraction flags: WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_HARDLINK,
164 WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_SYMLINK, WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_FILE_ORDER,
165 and WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_SEQUENTIAL.
167 - Removed some progress messages:
168 WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_APPLY_TIMESTAMPS,
169 WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_DIR_STRUCTURE_BEGIN,
170 WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_DIR_STRUCTURE_END. Numbering
173 - Removed some error codes. Numbering stays the same.
175 - Replaced WIMLIB_UNMOUNT_FLAG_LAZY with
176 WIMLIB_UNMOUNT_FLAG_FORCE.
178 - WIM paths passed to progress functions now have a leading
182 Case-insensitive comparisons of strings (e.g. filenames) containing
183 UTF-16 codepoints above 32767 are now done correctly.
185 Fixed build failure on Mac OS X.
187 wimunmount now provides the '--new-image' option to cause changes to a
188 read-write mounted image to be committed as a new image rather than as
189 an update of the mounted image. (The corresponding new library flag is
190 WIMLIB_UNMOUNT_FLAG_NEW_IMAGE.)
192 The LZMS ("recovery") compression chunk size, or "dictionary size", may
193 now be up to 1 GiB (1,073,741,824 bytes).
195 The performance of LZX ("maximum") and LZMS ("recovery") compression
196 with large chunk sizes has been slightly improved.
199 Stored files with size exactly 4 GiB (4,294,967,296 bytes) are now
200 decompressed correctly.
202 Fixed a bug in the LZX compressor introduced in v1.5.3. The bug
203 occurred in an unlikely case, and due to validity checks it did not
204 affect successfully created archives.
206 Fixed a minor compatibility issue with the LZMS compressor and
207 decompressor. This is *not* the default compression type and was only
208 introduced in v1.6.0. In the unlikely event that you created an
209 LZMS-compressed WIM with v1.6.0 and a checksum error is reported when
210 applying it with v1.6.1, decompress it with v1.6.0 then compress it with
213 Memory usage for LZMS and LZX compression has been decreased.
215 wimextract now allows wildcard characters in paths specified on the
216 command line. Also, the '--strict-wildcards' option has been removed
217 and replaced with the inverse option '--nullglob'. See the
218 documentation for wimextract for more details and changes.
220 The wimlib_extract_files() function is now considered deprecated in
221 favor of wimlib_extract_paths().
223 Fixed more permissions problems when extracting files on Windows.
225 A new '--no-attributes' option has been added to wimapply and
226 wimextract. The library flag is WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_NO_ATTRIBUTES.
228 The default chunk size is now set correctly when changing the
229 compression type of a WIM, for example with 'wimoptimize'.
231 The '--metadata' option to wiminfo has been replaced with the
232 '--detailed' option to wimdir.
234 In relevant wimlib-imagex commands, '--solid' may now be used as an
235 alias for '--pack-streams'.
238 Support for extracting and updating the new version 3584 WIMs has been
239 added. These WIMs typically pack many streams ("files") together into a
240 single compressed resource, thereby saving space. This degrades the
241 performance of random access (such as that which occurs on a mounted
242 image), but optimizations have been implemented for extraction. These
243 new WIM files also typically use a new compression format (LZMS), which
244 is similar to LZMA and can offer a better compression ratio than LZX.
245 These new WIM files can be created using `wimcapture' with
246 the '--compress=lzms --pack-streams' options. Note: this new WIM format
247 is used by the Windows 8 web downloader, but important segments of the
248 raw '.esd' files are encrypted, so wimlib will not be able to extract
249 such files until they are first decrypted.
251 wimlib now supports extracting files and directories from a WIM image
252 based on a "listfile" that itself contains the list of paths to extract.
253 For `wimextract', the syntax is to specify @LISTFILE instead of a PATH,
254 and for the library itself, the new APIs are wimlib_extract_pathlist()
255 and wimlib_extract_paths(). Path globs containing wildcard characters
258 For searching WIM files, wimlib now has configurable case sensitivity.
259 The default on Windows is still case-insensitive and the default on
260 UNIX-like systems is still case-sensitive, but this can be overridden
261 on either platform through flags to wimlib_global_init(). For
262 `wimlib-imagex', the environmental variable WIMLIB_IMAGEX_IGNORE_CASE
263 can be set to 1 or 0 for case-insensitive or case-sensitive behavior,
266 Support for compression chunk sizes greater than the default of 32768
267 bytes has been added. A larger chunk size typically results in a better
268 compression ratio. However, the MS implementation is seemingly not
269 compatible with all chunk sizes, especially for LZX compression, so the
270 defaults remain unchanged, with the exception of the new LZMS-compressed
271 WIMs, which use a larger chunk size by default.
273 The compression/decompression API exported by wimlib has been changed.
274 Now one set of functions handles all supported compression formats.
276 `wimcapture' and `wimappend' will now display the progress of scanning
277 the directory tree to capture, in addition to the progress of writing
278 data to the WIM. The '--verbose' option no longer does anything. The
279 library API change for this is the addition of several members to
280 `struct wimlib_progress_info_scan' available to progress callbacks.
282 `mkwinpeimg' now correctly handles the '--start-script' option when the
283 start script is not in the working directory.
285 Sequential extraction, previously requested by using
286 WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_SEQUENTIAL, is now the default.
287 WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_FILE_ORDER can be used to get the old default
288 behavior (extract in file order).
291 The new LZX compressor added in v1.5.2 has been improved and is now
292 enabled by default, except when `wimcapture' or `wimappend' is run
293 *without* the '--compress' option, in which case the faster LZX
294 compressor is used (the same as before). This behavior is reasonably
295 consistent with ImageX which actually uses "fast" (XPRESS) compression
296 by default. In those cases, use '--compress=maximum' to explicitly
297 capture a WIM image using the new (slower but better) LZX compressor.
299 The '--compress-slow' option still exists to `wimlib-imagex optimize',
300 but its new behavior is to tweak the new LZX compressor even more to
301 produce an even better compression ratio at the cost of more time spent
304 `wimlib-imagex optimize' now supports the '--compress=TYPE' option,
305 which recompresses the WIM file using the specified compression TYPE.
306 The new library API function used for this is
307 wimlib_set_output_compression_type().
309 Added the wimlib_get_xml_data() function to allow library clients to
310 easily retrieve the raw XML data from a WIM file if needed.
312 Fixed a bug that could cause an error code to be incorrectly returned
313 when writing XML data containing a <WINDOWS> element.
315 Mounted WIM images will now correctly show the default file stream even
316 if appears in the alternate data stream entries of the corresponding WIM
320 Added a new experimental LZX compressor which can be enabled by passing
321 '--compress-slow' to `wimlib-imagex capture' or `wimlib-imagex
322 optimize'. (The latter is only applicable if the WIM is already
323 LZX-compressed and the '--recompress' option is also given.) The
324 experimental compressor is much slower but compresses the data slightly
325 more --- currently usually to within a fraction of a percent of the
326 results from WIMGAPI/ImageX.
328 A workaround has been added for compatibility with versions of WinPE
329 that interpret alternate data stream entries in the boot WIM
332 An alignment bug that caused a crash in the LZX decompressor on some
335 wimlib now attempts to clear the WIM_HDR_FLAG_WRITE_IN_PROGRESS flag in
336 the WIM header when restoring the previous state of a WIM it failed to
339 Added a workaround to avoid an access denied error on Windows when
340 replacing a WIM file that another process has opened.
343 wimlib can now open WinPE WIMs from WAIK v2.1, which had a quirk that
344 needed to be handled.
346 A bug in the interpretation of negative IMAGE indices in the
347 --update-of=[WIMFILE:]IMAGE option to `wimlib-imagex capture' and
348 `wimlib-imagex append' has been fixed.
350 A workaround has been added to successfully apply security descriptors
351 with empty DACLs when the NTFS-3g apply mode is being used with NTFS-3g
352 2013.1.13 or earlier.
354 `wimlib-imagex capture' can now accept the '--delta-from' option
358 Added support for "pipable" WIMs. Pipable WIMs allow capturing images
359 to standard output and applying images from standard input, but they are
360 not compatible with Microsoft's software and are not created by default.
361 See the documentation for --pipable flag of `wimlib-imagex capture' for
364 To better support incremental backups, added support for declaring an
365 image as a modified form of another image. See the documentation for
366 the '--update-of' option of `wimlib-imagex append' and `wimlib-imagex
369 Added supported for "delta" WIMs. See the documentation for the
370 '--delta-from' option of `wimlib-imagex capture'.
372 The library support for managing split WIMs has been changed to support
373 other arrangements, such as delta WIMs, and be easier to use. This
374 change is visible in `wimlib-imagex', which also can now accept the
375 '--ref' option multiple times, and also now supports "delta" WIMs as
378 wimlib now preserves WIM integrity tables by default, even if
379 WIMLIB_WRITE_FLAG_CHECK_INTEGRITY is not specified. This changes the
380 behavior of `wimlib-imagex' whenever the WIM being operated on contains
381 an integrity table and the '--check' option is not specified.
383 `wimlib-imagex capture' now creates LZX-compressed WIMs by default
384 (when --compress is not specified). This provides the best compression
385 ratio by default, which is usually what is desired, at a cost of some
388 `wimlib-imagex' now supports being invoked as wimCOMMAND, where COMMAND
389 is the command as in `wimlib-imagex COMMAND'; for example, it can be
390 invoked as `wimapply' as an alternative to `wimlib-imagex apply'. The
391 appropriate hard links are created in UNIX installations of
392 `wimlib-imagex', while for the Windows distribution of `wimlib-imagex',
393 batch files that emulate this behavior are generated.
395 Security descriptors are now extracted correctly on Windows.
397 Fixed archiving DOS names in NTFS-3g capture mode.
399 The extraction code has been rewritten and it will now be easier to
400 support new features on all supported backends (currently Win32, UNIX,
401 and NTFS-3g). For example, hard-linked extraction mode (--hardlink) is
402 now supported on all backends, not just UNIX.
404 `mkwinpeimg' now supports grabbing files from the WAIK supplement rather
405 than the WAIK itself.
407 wimlib_global_init() now, by default, attempts to acquire additional
408 privileges on Windows, so library clients need not do this.
410 This update bumps the shared library version number up to 9, since it is
411 not binary compatibible with previous releases.
414 Fixed bug in `wimlib-imagex export' that made it impossible to export an
415 image from a WIM that is readonly at the filesystem level.
417 Return error code rather than segfaulting when trying to list files from
418 a non-first part of a split WIM.
420 Joining a WIM will now preserve the RP_FIX and READONLY flags.
423 On Windows, paths given to wimlib-imagex are now treated case
426 Improved behavior regarding invalid filenames; in particular, on
427 Windows, wimlib-imagex will, when extracting, now omit (with an option
428 to override this default) filenames differing only in case, or filenames
429 containing characters not valid on Windows.
431 On Windows, wimlib now supports capturing and extracting long paths
432 (longer than the so-called MAX_PATH).
434 On Windows, `wimlib-imagex update' now acquires proper privileges when
435 running as an Administrator.
437 `wimlib-imagex update' will now complain if no image is specified when
438 trying to update a multi-image WIM.
440 `wimlib-imagex update' now supports specifying a single update command
441 directly on the command line using the --command option.
443 wimlib-imagex will now choose different units for progress messages,
444 depending on the amount of data that needs to be processed.
446 `wimlib-imagex append' will now generate a unique WIM image name if no
447 name is specified and the defaulted name already exists in the WIM.
449 wimlib now allows you to create unnamed WIM images, which can then only
450 be referred to by index.
452 wimlib now allows you to explicitly declare you want write access to a
453 WIM by providing the WIMLIB_OPEN_FLAG_WRITE_ACCESS flag to
456 wimlib now respects the WIM_HDR_FLAG_READONLY flag when set in the WIM
459 Progress callbacks have been added to wimlib's wimlib_update_image()
462 Added wimlib_get_wim_info(), wimlib_set_wim_info(),
463 wimlib_iterate_dir_tree(), and wimlib_iterate_lookup_table() functions
466 NTFS-3g capture now only warns about two conditions previously treated
469 Fixed a couple issues with using wimlib-imagex on UDF filesystems on
472 wimlib now correctly detects and returns an error when reading a WIM
473 image with a cyclic directory structure. (Fun fact: such a WIM will
474 crash Microsoft's software.)
477 Added new "extract" and "update" subcommands to wimlib-imagex, along
478 with associated APIs in the library. These commands are intended mainly
479 for Windows use but can be used on UNIX as well.
481 Many documentation improvements.
483 Fixed a bug in the Windows build where relative symbolic links were not
484 captured in reparse-point fixup mode.
486 Fixed a bug in the Windows build where file handles were left open to
487 the WIM file, causing `wimlib_imagex optimize' to fail in some cases.
489 Fixed a bug in the Windows build of wimlib-imagex where globbing
490 split-WIM parts could cause the program to crash.
492 Fixed a bug where the creation time of WIM images would be shown instead
493 of the last modification time.
495 With the Windows build it is now possible to restore a WIM containing
496 symbolic links as a non-Administrator; however you will receive warnings
497 about not being able to extract the symbolic links.
500 Capturing a WIM image should now be significantly faster in most cases
501 due to improved use of the operating system's cache and avoiding reading
502 files twice whenever possible.
504 The Windows build should now work on Windows XP.
506 The Windows build now supports capturing and restoring hidden,
507 compressed, sparse, and encrypted files.
509 The Windows build now supports capturing and applying WIM images from
510 filesystems other than NTFS (with some reduced functionality).
512 The Windows build now extracts short names correctly.
514 Added support for "reparse-point" fixups (i.e. fixing up of symbolic
515 links). See docs for --rpfix and --norpfix flags of `wimlib-imagex
516 capture' and `wimlib-imagex apply'.
518 The performance of splitting and joining WIMs should be slightly
521 The LZX and XPRESS compression and decompression functions are now
522 exported from the library.
525 Improvements and bugfixes for the Windows build.
527 Added --strict-acls options.
529 Fixed the way that wimlib determines the order of images in the WIM.
532 Since wimlib can now be used on Windows, wimlib's implementation of
533 ImageX has been renamed to wimlib-imagex to avoid confusion with
534 Microsoft's implementation of ImageX, which would have the same file
535 name ("imagex.exe"). If you really don't like this you can pass the
536 --with-imagex-progname option to `configure' to choose a different name,
537 or even simply rename the binary yourself (but the former way will
538 configure the man pages to use the chosen name).
540 Various bugs fixed in the Windows build. Mainly to do with capturing
541 and restoring alternate data streams correctly in weird cases, and
542 requesting the correct privileges when opening files. Also added the
543 --noacls options to wimlib-imagex capture, append, and apply.
545 Windows build again: FindFirstStreamW() and FindNextStreamW() are now
546 dynamically loaded, so this may make the library compatible with Windows
547 XP (however, there may still be other problems).
550 Added experimental support for native Windows builds. Binaries can be
551 downloaded from the SourceForge page.
553 --source-list option added to `imagex capture' and `imagex append'.
555 Better support for different character encodings.
558 Storing UNIX file owners, groups, and modes in WIM images is now
559 possible using `imagex capture' with the --unix-data flag.
561 Minor bug fixes and documentation fixes.
564 NTFS capture: Fixed capturing duplicate reparse points.
566 NTFS capture: Capture first unnamed stream if there are more than one
567 (print warning instead of error).
569 Allow multiple test cases to execute concurrently (e.g. make -j2 check).
572 Added --arch switch to mkwinpeimg script to support getting AMD64 WinPE
575 Update to work with ntfs-3g version 2013.1.13.
578 Fixed truncating file to shorter but non-zero length on read-write
581 Various code cleanups and minor documentation fixes.
584 LZX and XPRESS decompression have received some additional optimizations
585 and should now be even faster. (Although, they were already pretty
586 fast--- much faster than typical I/O speeds.)
588 Fixed a bug introduced in v1.2.1 that would cause a directory tree
589 containing hard links to be captured incorrectly in some cases.
592 By default, unmounting a read-write mounted WIM with 'imagex unmount
593 --commit' will now change the WIM in-place without needing to write the
594 entire WIM again. Use 'imagex unmount --commit --rebuild' to get the
597 'imagex unmount' no longer has a hard-coded limit of 10 minutes to wait
598 for a response from the daemon servicing the mounted WIM. Instead,
599 every second 'imagex unmount' will check if the daemon is still alive,
600 and keep waiting if so, otherwise terminate with an error.
602 'imagex unmount --commit' on a read-write mounted WIM will now print
603 progress information regarding the writing of new or modified streams
604 the WIM, just like when capturing or appending a WIM.
606 A small change has been made to XPRESS compression and it should improve
607 the compression ratio slightly.
609 A change was made that may improve performance slightly when applying a
610 WIM image to a NTFS volume.
612 Microsoft has managed to introduce even more bugs into their software,
613 and now the WIMs for Windows 8 have incorrect (too low) reference counts
614 for some streams. This is unsafe because such streams can be removed
615 when they are in actuality still referenced in the WIM (perhaps by a
616 different image). wimlib will now work around this problem by fixing
617 the stream reference counts. This is only done when wimlib_delete_image() is
618 called ('imagex delete') or when wimlib_mount_image() is called with
619 WIMLIB_MOUNT_FLAG_READWRITE ('imagex mountrw'). Please note that this
620 requires reading the metadata for all images in the WIM, so this will
621 make these operations noticably slower on WIMs with multiple images.
623 Various other bugfixes.
626 Appending images to a WIM is now be done by default without re-building
627 the whole WIM. Use the --rebuild flag to get the old behavior (which
628 was to re-build the entire WIM when a new image is appended).
630 A new command `imagex optimize' is now available to manually re-build a
631 WIM that has wasted space due to repeated appends.
633 Progress information has been improved, and now arbitrary callback
634 functions can be used to show the progress of a WIM operation.
636 A possible bug with changing the bootable image of a WIM was fixed.
638 Some advisory locking is now done to prevent two processes from
639 modifying a WIM at the same time (but only in some cases). For example,
640 you cannot mount two images from a WIM read-write at the same time.
642 Some functions have been reorganized:
643 * wimlib_mount() renamed to wimlib_mount_image().
644 * wimlib_unmount() renamed to wimlib_unmount_image().
645 * wimlib_overwrite_xml_and_header() removed as
646 wimlib_overwrite() suffices now.
647 * wimlib_apply_image_to_ntfs_volume() removed as
648 wimlib_extract_image() suffices now.
649 * wimlib_add_image_from_ntfs_volume() removed as
650 * wimlib_add_image() suffices now.
652 Previously, the soname of libwim.so has been 0.0.0, despite many
653 interface changes. The soname is now updated to 1.0.0 and will now be
654 updated each release.
657 Resources will now be compressed using multiple threads by default.
658 (This applies to `imagex capture', `imagex append', and `imagex
661 Some performance improvements in mounted WIMs.
663 More progress information is shown when capturing a WIM.
666 Lots of minor fixes, code cleanups, and some documentation updates.
667 Nothing in particular is really noteworthy.
670 LZX and XPRESS compression improvements.
672 Fixed calculation of Directory Count, File Count, Total Bytes, and Hard
673 Link Bytes of the WIM.
676 Fixed bug when capturing NTFS file with multiple named data streams.
678 Internally, we are now using inode structures, even though these don't
679 appear literally in the WIM file. This simplifies some of the code
680 (mainly for WIM mounting) and likely fixed a few problems, although it
684 Fixed problem when exporting images from XPRESS to LZX compressed WIM or
688 Enough changes to call it version 1.0.0!
690 Capturing a WIM directly from a NTFS volume, and applying a WIM directly
691 to a NTFS volume, is now supported.
693 Hard links and symbolic links have much improved support. They are
694 supported for WIM capture, WIM application, and mounted WIMs (you can
695 even make them on read-write mounted WIMs).
697 Alternate data streams are now supported on mounted WIMs through an
698 xattr or a Windows-style stream interface. Also they are supported when
699 capturing a WIM from NTFS or applying a WIM to NTFS.
701 Split WIMs are better supported. You may now apply an image directly
702 from a split WIM, mount an image from a split WIM read-only, or export
703 an image from a split WIM.
705 Using a capture configuration file is now supported (but not fully yet).
707 SHA1 message digests are checked in more places, so we can make sure
708 applied and captured data is correct.
710 Man pages have been updated and consolidated.
713 Fixed segfault when unmounting read-only WIM.
716 Support for joining and splitting WIMs.
717 Also, security data is now preserved by default.
720 Can now build with older gcc and system headers, like on CentOS 5.
723 Fixed bug that made it impossible to overwrite files in read-write
727 Write byte-order mark before WIM XML data. (imagex.exe requires this to