1 Only the most important changes more recent than version 0.6 are noted here.
4 Appending images to a WIM is now be done by default without re-building
5 the whole WIM. Use the --rebuild flag to get the old behavior (which
6 was to re-build the entire WIM when a new image is appended).
8 A new command `imagex optimize' is now available to manually re-build a
9 WIM that has wasted space due to repeated appends.
11 Progress information has been improved, and now arbitrary callback
12 functions can be used to show the progress of a WIM operation.
14 A possible bug with changing the bootable image of a WIM was fixed.
16 Some advisory locking is now done to prevent two processes from
17 modifying a WIM at the same time (but only in some cases). For example,
18 you cannot mount two images from a WIM read-write at the same time.
20 Some functions have been reorganized:
21 * wimlib_mount() renamed to wimlib_mount_image().
22 * wimlib_unmount() renamed to wimlib_unmount_image().
23 * wimlib_overwrite_xml_and_header() removed as
24 wimlib_overwrite() suffices now.
25 * wimlib_apply_image_to_ntfs_volume() removed as
26 wimlib_extract_image() suffices now.
27 * wimlib_add_image_from_ntfs_volume() removed as
28 * wimlib_add_image() suffices now.
30 Previously, the soname of libwim.so has been 0.0.0, despite many
31 interface changes. The soname is now updated to 1.0.0 and will now be
35 Resources will now be compressed using multiple threads by default.
36 (This applies to `imagex capture', `imagex append', and `imagex
39 Some performance improvements in mounted WIMs.
41 More progress information is shown when capturing a WIM.
44 Lots of minor fixes, code cleanups, and some documentation updates.
45 Nothing in particular is really noteworthy.
48 LZX and XPRESS compression improvements.
50 Fixed calculation of Directory Count, File Count, Total Bytes, and Hard
51 Link Bytes of the WIM.
54 Fixed bug when capturing NTFS file with multiple named data streams.
56 Internally, we are now using inode structures, even though these don't
57 appear literally in the WIM file. This simplifies some of the code
58 (mainly for WIM mounting) and likely fixed a few problems, although it
62 Fixed problem when exporting images from XPRESS to LZX compressed WIM or
66 Enough changes to call it version 1.0.0!
68 Capturing a WIM directly from a NTFS volume, and applying a WIM directly
69 to a NTFS volume, is now supported.
71 Hard links and symbolic links have much improved support. They are
72 supported for WIM capture, WIM application, and mounted WIMs (you can
73 even make them on read-write mounted WIMs).
75 Alternate data streams are now supported on mounted WIMs through an
76 xattr or a Windows-style stream interface. Also they are supported when
77 capturing a WIM from NTFS or applying a WIM to NTFS.
79 Split WIMs are better supported. You may now apply an image directly
80 from a split WIM, mount an image from a split WIM read-only, or export
81 an image from a split WIM.
83 Using a capture configuration file is now supported (but not fully yet).
85 SHA1 message digests are checked in more places, so we can make sure
86 applied and captured data is correct.
88 Man pages have been updated and consolidated.
91 Fixed segfault when unmounting read-only WIM.
94 Support for joining and splitting WIMs.
95 Also, security data is now preserved by default.
98 Can now build with older gcc and system headers, like on CentOS 5.
101 Fixed bug that made it impossible to overwrite files in read-write
105 Write byte-order mark before WIM XML data. (imagex.exe requires this to