2 Extracting files to a Windows PE in-memory filesystem no longer fails if
3 the target files do not yet exist. (Broken since v1.7.0, but actually a
4 result of a Microsoft bug.)
7 Fix for very slow export from solid WIM / ESD files.
9 Fix for LZX and LZMS algorithms on non-x86 architectures, such as ARM.
11 New progress message: WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_HANDLE_ERROR. Applications
12 may use this to treat some types of errors as non-fatal.
14 The library now permits making in-memory changes to a WIMStruct backed
15 by a read-only WIM file.
17 Fixes for "WIMBoot" extraction mode (Windows only):
19 When not using the WOF driver, extraction no longer fails if the
20 disk containing the WIM file has too many partitions.
22 When matching patterns in [PrepopulateList], all hard links of
23 each file are now considered.
25 The system registry files are now automatically treated as being
28 Added a hack to try to work around an intermittent bug in
29 Microsoft's WOF (Windows Overlay Filesystem) driver.
32 Made more improvements to the XPRESS, LZX, and LZMS compressors.
34 A number of improvements to the Windows port:
36 Fixes for setting short filenames.
38 Faster "WIMBoot" extraction.
40 Updated and slimmed down the dependent DLLs.
42 ACL inheritence bits are now restored.
44 Mandatory integrity labels are now backed up and restored.
46 Added a workaround for an issue where in rare cases, wimlib could create
47 a compressed data stream that could not be read correctly by Windows
48 after an extraction in "WIMBoot" mode.
51 Added file count progress data for
52 WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_FILE_STRUCTURE and
53 WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_METADATA.
55 Added support for testing file exclusions via the user-provided
58 Some documentation improvements.
60 Made some clarifications to the license text in the COPYING file.
63 Made more improvements to the XPRESS, LZX, and LZMS compressors.
65 The default compression mode for wimcapture is now LZX compression in
66 its default mode, which is the same as '--compress=maximum'.
68 You can now specify an optional integer compression level to the
69 '--compress' option; e.g. '--compress=lzx:75'.
71 Made a minor change to the LZMS compressor and decompressor to fix an
72 incompatibility with the Microsoft implementation. In the unlikely
73 event that you created an LZMS-compressed WIM with wimlib v1.7.0 or
74 earlier and a checksum error is reported when extracting files from it
75 with wimlib v1.7.1, decompress it with v1.7.0 then compress it with
78 Added 'verify' subcommand to wimlib-imagex.
80 Notable library changes:
82 Custom compressor parameters have been removed from the library
83 in favor of the simpler level-based API.
85 Decompressor parameters have been removed entirely.
87 Library users can now specify a custom file for warning and
88 error messages to be sent to, rather than the default of
91 New progress messages:
92 WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_FILE_STRUCTURE,
93 WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_METADATA.
95 New function: wimlib_verify_wim().
98 Improved compression, decompression, and extraction performance.
100 Improved compatibility with version 3584 WIM / ESD files:
101 - Add support for reading and writing multiple solid blocks per
102 archive, which WIMGAPI/DISM can create when appending an image.
103 - Correctly create solid blocks larger than 4 GiB.
105 'add' commands passed to wimupdate will now replace existing
106 nondirectory files by default. Use the --no-replace option to get the
109 The license for the library now contains an exception that allows using
110 it under the LGPL. See the COPYING file for details.
112 In reparse-point fixup mode (the default for capture), symbolic links
113 and junctions that point outside the tree being captured are no longer
114 excluded from capture.
116 Added support for "WIMBoot" capture and extraction. See the
117 documentation for the new '--wimboot' option to wimcapture and wimapply
118 for more information.
120 On UNIX-like systems, you can now backup and restore device nodes, named
121 pipes, and sockets. In addition, 32-bit user and group IDs are now
124 The way that UNIX data is stored in WIM files has been changed. If you
125 captured any WIMs with the --unix-data option, to upgrade them you'll
126 need to apply them with --unix-data using wimlib-imagex v1.6.2, then
127 re-capture them with --unix-data using this version.
129 wimlib now understands tagged metadata items, such as object IDs, that
130 can be stored in WIM directory entries.
132 Removed the --hardlink and --symlink options to wimapply, since I don't
133 think they are too useful and they got in the way of improving the code.
135 WIMs will now retain their GUIDs when rebuilt (e.g. with wimoptimize).
137 The 'mkwinpeimg' script now supports writing the ISO image to standard
140 The <ARCH> element in WIM XML data is now exported correctly.
142 On Windows, sparse file attributes are no longer set on extracted files.
143 Oddly enough, this actually saves disk space in some cases.
145 On UNIX, configuring with --disable-xattr or --enable-xattr is no longer
146 supported. Mounting WIM images now always requires extended attribute
147 support. Use --without-fuse to disable support for mounting WIM images;
148 this will also disable the need for extended attribute support.
150 Configuring with --enable-ssse3-sha1 now works correctly.
152 The shared library version has been bumped up. The main
153 incompatibilities are:
155 - WIMLIB_COMPRESSION_TYPE_XPRESS is now 1 and
156 WIMLIB_COMPRESSION_TYPE_LZX is now 2 (so it's the same as
159 - User-provided progress functions are now registered using a
160 separate function, wimlib_register_progress_function(). The
161 'progress_func' argument to many functions no longer exists.
163 - The return value from user-provided progress functions is now
166 - A context argument has been added to the prototype of
167 user-provided progress functions.
169 - 'struct wimlib_capture_config' has been removed. The library
170 now takes the path to the configuration file directly. This
171 affects wimlib_add_image(), wimlib_add_image_multisource(),
172 and wimlib_update_image(). However, a NULL value passed in
173 the argument retains the same meaning.
175 - Removed deprecated functions: some (de)compression functions,
176 wimlib_extract_files(), and wimlib_print_metadata().
178 - Removed extraction flags: WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_HARDLINK,
179 WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_SYMLINK, WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_FILE_ORDER,
180 and WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_SEQUENTIAL.
182 - Removed some progress messages:
183 WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_APPLY_TIMESTAMPS,
184 WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_DIR_STRUCTURE_BEGIN,
185 WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_DIR_STRUCTURE_END. Numbering
188 - Removed some error codes. Numbering stays the same.
190 - Replaced WIMLIB_UNMOUNT_FLAG_LAZY with
191 WIMLIB_UNMOUNT_FLAG_FORCE.
193 - WIM paths passed to progress functions now have a leading
197 Case-insensitive comparisons of strings (e.g. filenames) containing
198 UTF-16 codepoints above 32767 are now done correctly.
200 Fixed build failure on Mac OS X.
202 wimunmount now provides the '--new-image' option to cause changes to a
203 read-write mounted image to be committed as a new image rather than as
204 an update of the mounted image. (The corresponding new library flag is
205 WIMLIB_UNMOUNT_FLAG_NEW_IMAGE.)
207 The LZMS ("recovery") compression chunk size, or "dictionary size", may
208 now be up to 1 GiB (1,073,741,824 bytes).
210 The performance of LZX ("maximum") and LZMS ("recovery") compression
211 with large chunk sizes has been slightly improved.
214 Stored files with size exactly 4 GiB (4,294,967,296 bytes) are now
215 decompressed correctly.
217 Fixed a bug in the LZX compressor introduced in v1.5.3. The bug
218 occurred in an unlikely case, and due to validity checks it did not
219 affect successfully created archives.
221 Fixed a minor compatibility issue with the LZMS compressor and
222 decompressor. This is *not* the default compression type and was only
223 introduced in v1.6.0. In the unlikely event that you created an
224 LZMS-compressed WIM with v1.6.0 and a checksum error is reported when
225 applying it with v1.6.1, decompress it with v1.6.0 then compress it with
228 Memory usage for LZMS and LZX compression has been decreased.
230 wimextract now allows wildcard characters in paths specified on the
231 command line. Also, the '--strict-wildcards' option has been removed
232 and replaced with the inverse option '--nullglob'. See the
233 documentation for wimextract for more details and changes.
235 The wimlib_extract_files() function is now considered deprecated in
236 favor of wimlib_extract_paths().
238 Fixed more permissions problems when extracting files on Windows.
240 A new '--no-attributes' option has been added to wimapply and
241 wimextract. The library flag is WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_NO_ATTRIBUTES.
243 The default chunk size is now set correctly when changing the
244 compression type of a WIM, for example with 'wimoptimize'.
246 The '--metadata' option to wiminfo has been replaced with the
247 '--detailed' option to wimdir.
249 In relevant wimlib-imagex commands, '--solid' may now be used as an
250 alias for '--pack-streams'.
253 Support for extracting and updating the new version 3584 WIMs has been
254 added. These WIMs typically pack many streams ("files") together into a
255 single compressed resource, thereby saving space. This degrades the
256 performance of random access (such as that which occurs on a mounted
257 image), but optimizations have been implemented for extraction. These
258 new WIM files also typically use a new compression format (LZMS), which
259 is similar to LZMA and can offer a better compression ratio than LZX.
260 These new WIM files can be created using `wimcapture' with
261 the '--compress=lzms --pack-streams' options. Note: this new WIM format
262 is used by the Windows 8 web downloader, but important segments of the
263 raw '.esd' files are encrypted, so wimlib will not be able to extract
264 such files until they are first decrypted.
266 wimlib now supports extracting files and directories from a WIM image
267 based on a "listfile" that itself contains the list of paths to extract.
268 For `wimextract', the syntax is to specify @LISTFILE instead of a PATH,
269 and for the library itself, the new APIs are wimlib_extract_pathlist()
270 and wimlib_extract_paths(). Path globs containing wildcard characters
273 For searching WIM files, wimlib now has configurable case sensitivity.
274 The default on Windows is still case-insensitive and the default on
275 UNIX-like systems is still case-sensitive, but this can be overridden
276 on either platform through flags to wimlib_global_init(). For
277 `wimlib-imagex', the environmental variable WIMLIB_IMAGEX_IGNORE_CASE
278 can be set to 1 or 0 for case-insensitive or case-sensitive behavior,
281 Support for compression chunk sizes greater than the default of 32768
282 bytes has been added. A larger chunk size typically results in a better
283 compression ratio. However, the MS implementation is seemingly not
284 compatible with all chunk sizes, especially for LZX compression, so the
285 defaults remain unchanged, with the exception of the new LZMS-compressed
286 WIMs, which use a larger chunk size by default.
288 The compression/decompression API exported by wimlib has been changed.
289 Now one set of functions handles all supported compression formats.
291 `wimcapture' and `wimappend' will now display the progress of scanning
292 the directory tree to capture, in addition to the progress of writing
293 data to the WIM. The '--verbose' option no longer does anything. The
294 library API change for this is the addition of several members to
295 `struct wimlib_progress_info_scan' available to progress callbacks.
297 `mkwinpeimg' now correctly handles the '--start-script' option when the
298 start script is not in the working directory.
300 Sequential extraction, previously requested by using
301 WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_SEQUENTIAL, is now the default.
302 WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_FILE_ORDER can be used to get the old default
303 behavior (extract in file order).
306 The new LZX compressor added in v1.5.2 has been improved and is now
307 enabled by default, except when `wimcapture' or `wimappend' is run
308 *without* the '--compress' option, in which case the faster LZX
309 compressor is used (the same as before). This behavior is reasonably
310 consistent with ImageX which actually uses "fast" (XPRESS) compression
311 by default. In those cases, use '--compress=maximum' to explicitly
312 capture a WIM image using the new (slower but better) LZX compressor.
314 The '--compress-slow' option still exists to `wimlib-imagex optimize',
315 but its new behavior is to tweak the new LZX compressor even more to
316 produce an even better compression ratio at the cost of more time spent
319 `wimlib-imagex optimize' now supports the '--compress=TYPE' option,
320 which recompresses the WIM file using the specified compression TYPE.
321 The new library API function used for this is
322 wimlib_set_output_compression_type().
324 Added the wimlib_get_xml_data() function to allow library clients to
325 easily retrieve the raw XML data from a WIM file if needed.
327 Fixed a bug that could cause an error code to be incorrectly returned
328 when writing XML data containing a <WINDOWS> element.
330 Mounted WIM images will now correctly show the default file stream even
331 if appears in the alternate data stream entries of the corresponding WIM
335 Added a new experimental LZX compressor which can be enabled by passing
336 '--compress-slow' to `wimlib-imagex capture' or `wimlib-imagex
337 optimize'. (The latter is only applicable if the WIM is already
338 LZX-compressed and the '--recompress' option is also given.) The
339 experimental compressor is much slower but compresses the data slightly
340 more --- currently usually to within a fraction of a percent of the
341 results from WIMGAPI/ImageX.
343 A workaround has been added for compatibility with versions of WinPE
344 that interpret alternate data stream entries in the boot WIM
347 An alignment bug that caused a crash in the LZX decompressor on some
350 wimlib now attempts to clear the WIM_HDR_FLAG_WRITE_IN_PROGRESS flag in
351 the WIM header when restoring the previous state of a WIM it failed to
354 Added a workaround to avoid an access denied error on Windows when
355 replacing a WIM file that another process has opened.
358 wimlib can now open WinPE WIMs from WAIK v2.1, which had a quirk that
359 needed to be handled.
361 A bug in the interpretation of negative IMAGE indices in the
362 --update-of=[WIMFILE:]IMAGE option to `wimlib-imagex capture' and
363 `wimlib-imagex append' has been fixed.
365 A workaround has been added to successfully apply security descriptors
366 with empty DACLs when the NTFS-3g apply mode is being used with NTFS-3g
367 2013.1.13 or earlier.
369 `wimlib-imagex capture' can now accept the '--delta-from' option
373 Added support for "pipable" WIMs. Pipable WIMs allow capturing images
374 to standard output and applying images from standard input, but they are
375 not compatible with Microsoft's software and are not created by default.
376 See the documentation for --pipable flag of `wimlib-imagex capture' for
379 To better support incremental backups, added support for declaring an
380 image as a modified form of another image. See the documentation for
381 the '--update-of' option of `wimlib-imagex append' and `wimlib-imagex
384 Added supported for "delta" WIMs. See the documentation for the
385 '--delta-from' option of `wimlib-imagex capture'.
387 The library support for managing split WIMs has been changed to support
388 other arrangements, such as delta WIMs, and be easier to use. This
389 change is visible in `wimlib-imagex', which also can now accept the
390 '--ref' option multiple times, and also now supports "delta" WIMs as
393 wimlib now preserves WIM integrity tables by default, even if
394 WIMLIB_WRITE_FLAG_CHECK_INTEGRITY is not specified. This changes the
395 behavior of `wimlib-imagex' whenever the WIM being operated on contains
396 an integrity table and the '--check' option is not specified.
398 `wimlib-imagex capture' now creates LZX-compressed WIMs by default
399 (when --compress is not specified). This provides the best compression
400 ratio by default, which is usually what is desired, at a cost of some
403 `wimlib-imagex' now supports being invoked as wimCOMMAND, where COMMAND
404 is the command as in `wimlib-imagex COMMAND'; for example, it can be
405 invoked as `wimapply' as an alternative to `wimlib-imagex apply'. The
406 appropriate hard links are created in UNIX installations of
407 `wimlib-imagex', while for the Windows distribution of `wimlib-imagex',
408 batch files that emulate this behavior are generated.
410 Security descriptors are now extracted correctly on Windows.
412 Fixed archiving DOS names in NTFS-3g capture mode.
414 The extraction code has been rewritten and it will now be easier to
415 support new features on all supported backends (currently Win32, UNIX,
416 and NTFS-3g). For example, hard-linked extraction mode (--hardlink) is
417 now supported on all backends, not just UNIX.
419 `mkwinpeimg' now supports grabbing files from the WAIK supplement rather
420 than the WAIK itself.
422 wimlib_global_init() now, by default, attempts to acquire additional
423 privileges on Windows, so library clients need not do this.
425 This update bumps the shared library version number up to 9, since it is
426 not binary compatibible with previous releases.
429 Fixed bug in `wimlib-imagex export' that made it impossible to export an
430 image from a WIM that is readonly at the filesystem level.
432 Return error code rather than segfaulting when trying to list files from
433 a non-first part of a split WIM.
435 Joining a WIM will now preserve the RP_FIX and READONLY flags.
438 On Windows, paths given to wimlib-imagex are now treated case
441 Improved behavior regarding invalid filenames; in particular, on
442 Windows, wimlib-imagex will, when extracting, now omit (with an option
443 to override this default) filenames differing only in case, or filenames
444 containing characters not valid on Windows.
446 On Windows, wimlib now supports capturing and extracting long paths
447 (longer than the so-called MAX_PATH).
449 On Windows, `wimlib-imagex update' now acquires proper privileges when
450 running as an Administrator.
452 `wimlib-imagex update' will now complain if no image is specified when
453 trying to update a multi-image WIM.
455 `wimlib-imagex update' now supports specifying a single update command
456 directly on the command line using the --command option.
458 wimlib-imagex will now choose different units for progress messages,
459 depending on the amount of data that needs to be processed.
461 `wimlib-imagex append' will now generate a unique WIM image name if no
462 name is specified and the defaulted name already exists in the WIM.
464 wimlib now allows you to create unnamed WIM images, which can then only
465 be referred to by index.
467 wimlib now allows you to explicitly declare you want write access to a
468 WIM by providing the WIMLIB_OPEN_FLAG_WRITE_ACCESS flag to
471 wimlib now respects the WIM_HDR_FLAG_READONLY flag when set in the WIM
474 Progress callbacks have been added to wimlib's wimlib_update_image()
477 Added wimlib_get_wim_info(), wimlib_set_wim_info(),
478 wimlib_iterate_dir_tree(), and wimlib_iterate_lookup_table() functions
481 NTFS-3g capture now only warns about two conditions previously treated
484 Fixed a couple issues with using wimlib-imagex on UDF filesystems on
487 wimlib now correctly detects and returns an error when reading a WIM
488 image with a cyclic directory structure. (Fun fact: such a WIM will
489 crash Microsoft's software.)
492 Added new "extract" and "update" subcommands to wimlib-imagex, along
493 with associated APIs in the library. These commands are intended mainly
494 for Windows use but can be used on UNIX as well.
496 Many documentation improvements.
498 Fixed a bug in the Windows build where relative symbolic links were not
499 captured in reparse-point fixup mode.
501 Fixed a bug in the Windows build where file handles were left open to
502 the WIM file, causing `wimlib_imagex optimize' to fail in some cases.
504 Fixed a bug in the Windows build of wimlib-imagex where globbing
505 split-WIM parts could cause the program to crash.
507 Fixed a bug where the creation time of WIM images would be shown instead
508 of the last modification time.
510 With the Windows build it is now possible to restore a WIM containing
511 symbolic links as a non-Administrator; however you will receive warnings
512 about not being able to extract the symbolic links.
515 Capturing a WIM image should now be significantly faster in most cases
516 due to improved use of the operating system's cache and avoiding reading
517 files twice whenever possible.
519 The Windows build should now work on Windows XP.
521 The Windows build now supports capturing and restoring hidden,
522 compressed, sparse, and encrypted files.
524 The Windows build now supports capturing and applying WIM images from
525 filesystems other than NTFS (with some reduced functionality).
527 The Windows build now extracts short names correctly.
529 Added support for "reparse-point" fixups (i.e. fixing up of symbolic
530 links). See docs for --rpfix and --norpfix flags of `wimlib-imagex
531 capture' and `wimlib-imagex apply'.
533 The performance of splitting and joining WIMs should be slightly
536 The LZX and XPRESS compression and decompression functions are now
537 exported from the library.
540 Improvements and bugfixes for the Windows build.
542 Added --strict-acls options.
544 Fixed the way that wimlib determines the order of images in the WIM.
547 Since wimlib can now be used on Windows, wimlib's implementation of
548 ImageX has been renamed to wimlib-imagex to avoid confusion with
549 Microsoft's implementation of ImageX, which would have the same file
550 name ("imagex.exe"). If you really don't like this you can pass the
551 --with-imagex-progname option to `configure' to choose a different name,
552 or even simply rename the binary yourself (but the former way will
553 configure the man pages to use the chosen name).
555 Various bugs fixed in the Windows build. Mainly to do with capturing
556 and restoring alternate data streams correctly in weird cases, and
557 requesting the correct privileges when opening files. Also added the
558 --noacls options to wimlib-imagex capture, append, and apply.
560 Windows build again: FindFirstStreamW() and FindNextStreamW() are now
561 dynamically loaded, so this may make the library compatible with Windows
562 XP (however, there may still be other problems).
565 Added experimental support for native Windows builds. Binaries can be
566 downloaded from the SourceForge page.
568 --source-list option added to `imagex capture' and `imagex append'.
570 Better support for different character encodings.
573 Storing UNIX file owners, groups, and modes in WIM images is now
574 possible using `imagex capture' with the --unix-data flag.
576 Minor bug fixes and documentation fixes.
579 NTFS capture: Fixed capturing duplicate reparse points.
581 NTFS capture: Capture first unnamed stream if there are more than one
582 (print warning instead of error).
584 Allow multiple test cases to execute concurrently (e.g. make -j2 check).
587 Added --arch switch to mkwinpeimg script to support getting AMD64 WinPE
590 Update to work with ntfs-3g version 2013.1.13.
593 Fixed truncating file to shorter but non-zero length on read-write
596 Various code cleanups and minor documentation fixes.
599 LZX and XPRESS decompression have received some additional optimizations
600 and should now be even faster. (Although, they were already pretty
601 fast--- much faster than typical I/O speeds.)
603 Fixed a bug introduced in v1.2.1 that would cause a directory tree
604 containing hard links to be captured incorrectly in some cases.
607 By default, unmounting a read-write mounted WIM with 'imagex unmount
608 --commit' will now change the WIM in-place without needing to write the
609 entire WIM again. Use 'imagex unmount --commit --rebuild' to get the
612 'imagex unmount' no longer has a hard-coded limit of 10 minutes to wait
613 for a response from the daemon servicing the mounted WIM. Instead,
614 every second 'imagex unmount' will check if the daemon is still alive,
615 and keep waiting if so, otherwise terminate with an error.
617 'imagex unmount --commit' on a read-write mounted WIM will now print
618 progress information regarding the writing of new or modified streams
619 the WIM, just like when capturing or appending a WIM.
621 A small change has been made to XPRESS compression and it should improve
622 the compression ratio slightly.
624 A change was made that may improve performance slightly when applying a
625 WIM image to a NTFS volume.
627 Microsoft has managed to introduce even more bugs into their software,
628 and now the WIMs for Windows 8 have incorrect (too low) reference counts
629 for some streams. This is unsafe because such streams can be removed
630 when they are in actuality still referenced in the WIM (perhaps by a
631 different image). wimlib will now work around this problem by fixing
632 the stream reference counts. This is only done when wimlib_delete_image() is
633 called ('imagex delete') or when wimlib_mount_image() is called with
634 WIMLIB_MOUNT_FLAG_READWRITE ('imagex mountrw'). Please note that this
635 requires reading the metadata for all images in the WIM, so this will
636 make these operations noticably slower on WIMs with multiple images.
638 Various other bugfixes.
641 Appending images to a WIM is now be done by default without re-building
642 the whole WIM. Use the --rebuild flag to get the old behavior (which
643 was to re-build the entire WIM when a new image is appended).
645 A new command `imagex optimize' is now available to manually re-build a
646 WIM that has wasted space due to repeated appends.
648 Progress information has been improved, and now arbitrary callback
649 functions can be used to show the progress of a WIM operation.
651 A possible bug with changing the bootable image of a WIM was fixed.
653 Some advisory locking is now done to prevent two processes from
654 modifying a WIM at the same time (but only in some cases). For example,
655 you cannot mount two images from a WIM read-write at the same time.
657 Some functions have been reorganized:
658 * wimlib_mount() renamed to wimlib_mount_image().
659 * wimlib_unmount() renamed to wimlib_unmount_image().
660 * wimlib_overwrite_xml_and_header() removed as
661 wimlib_overwrite() suffices now.
662 * wimlib_apply_image_to_ntfs_volume() removed as
663 wimlib_extract_image() suffices now.
664 * wimlib_add_image_from_ntfs_volume() removed as
665 * wimlib_add_image() suffices now.
667 Previously, the soname of libwim.so has been 0.0.0, despite many
668 interface changes. The soname is now updated to 1.0.0 and will now be
669 updated each release.
672 Resources will now be compressed using multiple threads by default.
673 (This applies to `imagex capture', `imagex append', and `imagex
676 Some performance improvements in mounted WIMs.
678 More progress information is shown when capturing a WIM.
681 Lots of minor fixes, code cleanups, and some documentation updates.
682 Nothing in particular is really noteworthy.
685 LZX and XPRESS compression improvements.
687 Fixed calculation of Directory Count, File Count, Total Bytes, and Hard
688 Link Bytes of the WIM.
691 Fixed bug when capturing NTFS file with multiple named data streams.
693 Internally, we are now using inode structures, even though these don't
694 appear literally in the WIM file. This simplifies some of the code
695 (mainly for WIM mounting) and likely fixed a few problems, although it
699 Fixed problem when exporting images from XPRESS to LZX compressed WIM or
703 Enough changes to call it version 1.0.0!
705 Capturing a WIM directly from a NTFS volume, and applying a WIM directly
706 to a NTFS volume, is now supported.
708 Hard links and symbolic links have much improved support. They are
709 supported for WIM capture, WIM application, and mounted WIMs (you can
710 even make them on read-write mounted WIMs).
712 Alternate data streams are now supported on mounted WIMs through an
713 xattr or a Windows-style stream interface. Also they are supported when
714 capturing a WIM from NTFS or applying a WIM to NTFS.
716 Split WIMs are better supported. You may now apply an image directly
717 from a split WIM, mount an image from a split WIM read-only, or export
718 an image from a split WIM.
720 Using a capture configuration file is now supported (but not fully yet).
722 SHA1 message digests are checked in more places, so we can make sure
723 applied and captured data is correct.
725 Man pages have been updated and consolidated.
728 Fixed segfault when unmounting read-only WIM.
731 Support for joining and splitting WIMs.
732 Also, security data is now preserved by default.
735 Can now build with older gcc and system headers, like on CentOS 5.
738 Fixed bug that made it impossible to overwrite files in read-write
742 Write byte-order mark before WIM XML data. (imagex.exe requires this to