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
16 Added a hack to try to work around an intermittent bug in
17 Microsoft's WOF (Windows Overlay Filesystem) driver.
19 Added a workaround that tries to prevent short filename conflicts. It
20 can have an effect primarily on versions of Windows that do not support
21 removing short names from files (earlier than Windows 7).
23 New progress message: WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_HANDLE_ERROR. Applications
24 may use this to treat some types of errors as non-fatal.
27 Made more improvements to the XPRESS, LZX, and LZMS compressors.
29 A number of improvements to the Windows port:
31 Fixes for setting short filenames.
33 Faster "WIMBoot" extraction.
35 Updated and slimmed down the dependent DLLs.
37 ACL inheritence bits are now restored.
39 Mandatory integrity labels are now backed up and restored.
41 Added a workaround for an issue where in rare cases, wimlib could create
42 a compressed data stream that could not be read correctly by Windows
43 after an extraction in "WIMBoot" mode.
46 Added file count progress data for
47 WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_FILE_STRUCTURE and
48 WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_METADATA.
50 Added support for testing file exclusions via the user-provided
53 Some documentation improvements.
55 Made some clarifications to the license text in the COPYING file.
58 Made more improvements to the XPRESS, LZX, and LZMS compressors.
60 The default compression mode for wimcapture is now LZX compression in
61 its default mode, which is the same as '--compress=maximum'.
63 You can now specify an optional integer compression level to the
64 '--compress' option; e.g. '--compress=lzx:75'.
66 Made a minor change to the LZMS compressor and decompressor to fix an
67 incompatibility with the Microsoft implementation. In the unlikely
68 event that you created an LZMS-compressed WIM with wimlib v1.7.0 or
69 earlier and a checksum error is reported when extracting files from it
70 with wimlib v1.7.1, decompress it with v1.7.0 then compress it with
73 Added 'verify' subcommand to wimlib-imagex.
75 Notable library changes:
77 Custom compressor parameters have been removed from the library
78 in favor of the simpler level-based API.
80 Decompressor parameters have been removed entirely.
82 Library users can now specify a custom file for warning and
83 error messages to be sent to, rather than the default of
86 New progress messages:
87 WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_FILE_STRUCTURE,
88 WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_METADATA.
90 New function: wimlib_verify_wim().
93 Improved compression, decompression, and extraction performance.
95 Improved compatibility with version 3584 WIM / ESD files:
96 - Add support for reading and writing multiple solid blocks per
97 archive, which WIMGAPI/DISM can create when appending an image.
98 - Correctly create solid blocks larger than 4 GiB.
100 'add' commands passed to wimupdate will now replace existing
101 nondirectory files by default. Use the --no-replace option to get the
104 The license for the library now contains an exception that allows using
105 it under the LGPL. See the COPYING file for details.
107 In reparse-point fixup mode (the default for capture), symbolic links
108 and junctions that point outside the tree being captured are no longer
109 excluded from capture.
111 Added support for "WIMBoot" capture and extraction. See the
112 documentation for the new '--wimboot' option to wimcapture and wimapply
113 for more information.
115 On UNIX-like systems, you can now backup and restore device nodes, named
116 pipes, and sockets. In addition, 32-bit user and group IDs are now
119 The way that UNIX data is stored in WIM files has been changed. If you
120 captured any WIMs with the --unix-data option, to upgrade them you'll
121 need to apply them with --unix-data using wimlib-imagex v1.6.2, then
122 re-capture them with --unix-data using this version.
124 wimlib now understands tagged metadata items, such as object IDs, that
125 can be stored in WIM directory entries.
127 Removed the --hardlink and --symlink options to wimapply, since I don't
128 think they are too useful and they got in the way of improving the code.
130 WIMs will now retain their GUIDs when rebuilt (e.g. with wimoptimize).
132 The 'mkwinpeimg' script now supports writing the ISO image to standard
135 The <ARCH> element in WIM XML data is now exported correctly.
137 On Windows, sparse file attributes are no longer set on extracted files.
138 Oddly enough, this actually saves disk space in some cases.
140 On UNIX, configuring with --disable-xattr or --enable-xattr is no longer
141 supported. Mounting WIM images now always requires extended attribute
142 support. Use --without-fuse to disable support for mounting WIM images;
143 this will also disable the need for extended attribute support.
145 Configuring with --enable-ssse3-sha1 now works correctly.
147 The shared library version has been bumped up. The main
148 incompatibilities are:
150 - WIMLIB_COMPRESSION_TYPE_XPRESS is now 1 and
151 WIMLIB_COMPRESSION_TYPE_LZX is now 2 (so it's the same as
154 - User-provided progress functions are now registered using a
155 separate function, wimlib_register_progress_function(). The
156 'progress_func' argument to many functions no longer exists.
158 - The return value from user-provided progress functions is now
161 - A context argument has been added to the prototype of
162 user-provided progress functions.
164 - 'struct wimlib_capture_config' has been removed. The library
165 now takes the path to the configuration file directly. This
166 affects wimlib_add_image(), wimlib_add_image_multisource(),
167 and wimlib_update_image(). However, a NULL value passed in
168 the argument retains the same meaning.
170 - Removed deprecated functions: some (de)compression functions,
171 wimlib_extract_files(), and wimlib_print_metadata().
173 - Removed extraction flags: WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_HARDLINK,
174 WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_SYMLINK, WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_FILE_ORDER,
175 and WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_SEQUENTIAL.
177 - Removed some progress messages:
178 WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_APPLY_TIMESTAMPS,
179 WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_DIR_STRUCTURE_BEGIN,
180 WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_DIR_STRUCTURE_END. Numbering
183 - Removed some error codes. Numbering stays the same.
185 - Replaced WIMLIB_UNMOUNT_FLAG_LAZY with
186 WIMLIB_UNMOUNT_FLAG_FORCE.
188 - WIM paths passed to progress functions now have a leading
192 Case-insensitive comparisons of strings (e.g. filenames) containing
193 UTF-16 codepoints above 32767 are now done correctly.
195 Fixed build failure on Mac OS X.
197 wimunmount now provides the '--new-image' option to cause changes to a
198 read-write mounted image to be committed as a new image rather than as
199 an update of the mounted image. (The corresponding new library flag is
200 WIMLIB_UNMOUNT_FLAG_NEW_IMAGE.)
202 The LZMS ("recovery") compression chunk size, or "dictionary size", may
203 now be up to 1 GiB (1,073,741,824 bytes).
205 The performance of LZX ("maximum") and LZMS ("recovery") compression
206 with large chunk sizes has been slightly improved.
209 Stored files with size exactly 4 GiB (4,294,967,296 bytes) are now
210 decompressed correctly.
212 Fixed a bug in the LZX compressor introduced in v1.5.3. The bug
213 occurred in an unlikely case, and due to validity checks it did not
214 affect successfully created archives.
216 Fixed a minor compatibility issue with the LZMS compressor and
217 decompressor. This is *not* the default compression type and was only
218 introduced in v1.6.0. In the unlikely event that you created an
219 LZMS-compressed WIM with v1.6.0 and a checksum error is reported when
220 applying it with v1.6.1, decompress it with v1.6.0 then compress it with
223 Memory usage for LZMS and LZX compression has been decreased.
225 wimextract now allows wildcard characters in paths specified on the
226 command line. Also, the '--strict-wildcards' option has been removed
227 and replaced with the inverse option '--nullglob'. See the
228 documentation for wimextract for more details and changes.
230 The wimlib_extract_files() function is now considered deprecated in
231 favor of wimlib_extract_paths().
233 Fixed more permissions problems when extracting files on Windows.
235 A new '--no-attributes' option has been added to wimapply and
236 wimextract. The library flag is WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_NO_ATTRIBUTES.
238 The default chunk size is now set correctly when changing the
239 compression type of a WIM, for example with 'wimoptimize'.
241 The '--metadata' option to wiminfo has been replaced with the
242 '--detailed' option to wimdir.
244 In relevant wimlib-imagex commands, '--solid' may now be used as an
245 alias for '--pack-streams'.
248 Support for extracting and updating the new version 3584 WIMs has been
249 added. These WIMs typically pack many streams ("files") together into a
250 single compressed resource, thereby saving space. This degrades the
251 performance of random access (such as that which occurs on a mounted
252 image), but optimizations have been implemented for extraction. These
253 new WIM files also typically use a new compression format (LZMS), which
254 is similar to LZMA and can offer a better compression ratio than LZX.
255 These new WIM files can be created using `wimcapture' with
256 the '--compress=lzms --pack-streams' options. Note: this new WIM format
257 is used by the Windows 8 web downloader, but important segments of the
258 raw '.esd' files are encrypted, so wimlib will not be able to extract
259 such files until they are first decrypted.
261 wimlib now supports extracting files and directories from a WIM image
262 based on a "listfile" that itself contains the list of paths to extract.
263 For `wimextract', the syntax is to specify @LISTFILE instead of a PATH,
264 and for the library itself, the new APIs are wimlib_extract_pathlist()
265 and wimlib_extract_paths(). Path globs containing wildcard characters
268 For searching WIM files, wimlib now has configurable case sensitivity.
269 The default on Windows is still case-insensitive and the default on
270 UNIX-like systems is still case-sensitive, but this can be overridden
271 on either platform through flags to wimlib_global_init(). For
272 `wimlib-imagex', the environmental variable WIMLIB_IMAGEX_IGNORE_CASE
273 can be set to 1 or 0 for case-insensitive or case-sensitive behavior,
276 Support for compression chunk sizes greater than the default of 32768
277 bytes has been added. A larger chunk size typically results in a better
278 compression ratio. However, the MS implementation is seemingly not
279 compatible with all chunk sizes, especially for LZX compression, so the
280 defaults remain unchanged, with the exception of the new LZMS-compressed
281 WIMs, which use a larger chunk size by default.
283 The compression/decompression API exported by wimlib has been changed.
284 Now one set of functions handles all supported compression formats.
286 `wimcapture' and `wimappend' will now display the progress of scanning
287 the directory tree to capture, in addition to the progress of writing
288 data to the WIM. The '--verbose' option no longer does anything. The
289 library API change for this is the addition of several members to
290 `struct wimlib_progress_info_scan' available to progress callbacks.
292 `mkwinpeimg' now correctly handles the '--start-script' option when the
293 start script is not in the working directory.
295 Sequential extraction, previously requested by using
296 WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_SEQUENTIAL, is now the default.
297 WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_FILE_ORDER can be used to get the old default
298 behavior (extract in file order).
301 The new LZX compressor added in v1.5.2 has been improved and is now
302 enabled by default, except when `wimcapture' or `wimappend' is run
303 *without* the '--compress' option, in which case the faster LZX
304 compressor is used (the same as before). This behavior is reasonably
305 consistent with ImageX which actually uses "fast" (XPRESS) compression
306 by default. In those cases, use '--compress=maximum' to explicitly
307 capture a WIM image using the new (slower but better) LZX compressor.
309 The '--compress-slow' option still exists to `wimlib-imagex optimize',
310 but its new behavior is to tweak the new LZX compressor even more to
311 produce an even better compression ratio at the cost of more time spent
314 `wimlib-imagex optimize' now supports the '--compress=TYPE' option,
315 which recompresses the WIM file using the specified compression TYPE.
316 The new library API function used for this is
317 wimlib_set_output_compression_type().
319 Added the wimlib_get_xml_data() function to allow library clients to
320 easily retrieve the raw XML data from a WIM file if needed.
322 Fixed a bug that could cause an error code to be incorrectly returned
323 when writing XML data containing a <WINDOWS> element.
325 Mounted WIM images will now correctly show the default file stream even
326 if appears in the alternate data stream entries of the corresponding WIM
330 Added a new experimental LZX compressor which can be enabled by passing
331 '--compress-slow' to `wimlib-imagex capture' or `wimlib-imagex
332 optimize'. (The latter is only applicable if the WIM is already
333 LZX-compressed and the '--recompress' option is also given.) The
334 experimental compressor is much slower but compresses the data slightly
335 more --- currently usually to within a fraction of a percent of the
336 results from WIMGAPI/ImageX.
338 A workaround has been added for compatibility with versions of WinPE
339 that interpret alternate data stream entries in the boot WIM
342 An alignment bug that caused a crash in the LZX decompressor on some
345 wimlib now attempts to clear the WIM_HDR_FLAG_WRITE_IN_PROGRESS flag in
346 the WIM header when restoring the previous state of a WIM it failed to
349 Added a workaround to avoid an access denied error on Windows when
350 replacing a WIM file that another process has opened.
353 wimlib can now open WinPE WIMs from WAIK v2.1, which had a quirk that
354 needed to be handled.
356 A bug in the interpretation of negative IMAGE indices in the
357 --update-of=[WIMFILE:]IMAGE option to `wimlib-imagex capture' and
358 `wimlib-imagex append' has been fixed.
360 A workaround has been added to successfully apply security descriptors
361 with empty DACLs when the NTFS-3g apply mode is being used with NTFS-3g
362 2013.1.13 or earlier.
364 `wimlib-imagex capture' can now accept the '--delta-from' option
368 Added support for "pipable" WIMs. Pipable WIMs allow capturing images
369 to standard output and applying images from standard input, but they are
370 not compatible with Microsoft's software and are not created by default.
371 See the documentation for --pipable flag of `wimlib-imagex capture' for
374 To better support incremental backups, added support for declaring an
375 image as a modified form of another image. See the documentation for
376 the '--update-of' option of `wimlib-imagex append' and `wimlib-imagex
379 Added supported for "delta" WIMs. See the documentation for the
380 '--delta-from' option of `wimlib-imagex capture'.
382 The library support for managing split WIMs has been changed to support
383 other arrangements, such as delta WIMs, and be easier to use. This
384 change is visible in `wimlib-imagex', which also can now accept the
385 '--ref' option multiple times, and also now supports "delta" WIMs as
388 wimlib now preserves WIM integrity tables by default, even if
389 WIMLIB_WRITE_FLAG_CHECK_INTEGRITY is not specified. This changes the
390 behavior of `wimlib-imagex' whenever the WIM being operated on contains
391 an integrity table and the '--check' option is not specified.
393 `wimlib-imagex capture' now creates LZX-compressed WIMs by default
394 (when --compress is not specified). This provides the best compression
395 ratio by default, which is usually what is desired, at a cost of some
398 `wimlib-imagex' now supports being invoked as wimCOMMAND, where COMMAND
399 is the command as in `wimlib-imagex COMMAND'; for example, it can be
400 invoked as `wimapply' as an alternative to `wimlib-imagex apply'. The
401 appropriate hard links are created in UNIX installations of
402 `wimlib-imagex', while for the Windows distribution of `wimlib-imagex',
403 batch files that emulate this behavior are generated.
405 Security descriptors are now extracted correctly on Windows.
407 Fixed archiving DOS names in NTFS-3g capture mode.
409 The extraction code has been rewritten and it will now be easier to
410 support new features on all supported backends (currently Win32, UNIX,
411 and NTFS-3g). For example, hard-linked extraction mode (--hardlink) is
412 now supported on all backends, not just UNIX.
414 `mkwinpeimg' now supports grabbing files from the WAIK supplement rather
415 than the WAIK itself.
417 wimlib_global_init() now, by default, attempts to acquire additional
418 privileges on Windows, so library clients need not do this.
420 This update bumps the shared library version number up to 9, since it is
421 not binary compatibible with previous releases.
424 Fixed bug in `wimlib-imagex export' that made it impossible to export an
425 image from a WIM that is readonly at the filesystem level.
427 Return error code rather than segfaulting when trying to list files from
428 a non-first part of a split WIM.
430 Joining a WIM will now preserve the RP_FIX and READONLY flags.
433 On Windows, paths given to wimlib-imagex are now treated case
436 Improved behavior regarding invalid filenames; in particular, on
437 Windows, wimlib-imagex will, when extracting, now omit (with an option
438 to override this default) filenames differing only in case, or filenames
439 containing characters not valid on Windows.
441 On Windows, wimlib now supports capturing and extracting long paths
442 (longer than the so-called MAX_PATH).
444 On Windows, `wimlib-imagex update' now acquires proper privileges when
445 running as an Administrator.
447 `wimlib-imagex update' will now complain if no image is specified when
448 trying to update a multi-image WIM.
450 `wimlib-imagex update' now supports specifying a single update command
451 directly on the command line using the --command option.
453 wimlib-imagex will now choose different units for progress messages,
454 depending on the amount of data that needs to be processed.
456 `wimlib-imagex append' will now generate a unique WIM image name if no
457 name is specified and the defaulted name already exists in the WIM.
459 wimlib now allows you to create unnamed WIM images, which can then only
460 be referred to by index.
462 wimlib now allows you to explicitly declare you want write access to a
463 WIM by providing the WIMLIB_OPEN_FLAG_WRITE_ACCESS flag to
466 wimlib now respects the WIM_HDR_FLAG_READONLY flag when set in the WIM
469 Progress callbacks have been added to wimlib's wimlib_update_image()
472 Added wimlib_get_wim_info(), wimlib_set_wim_info(),
473 wimlib_iterate_dir_tree(), and wimlib_iterate_lookup_table() functions
476 NTFS-3g capture now only warns about two conditions previously treated
479 Fixed a couple issues with using wimlib-imagex on UDF filesystems on
482 wimlib now correctly detects and returns an error when reading a WIM
483 image with a cyclic directory structure. (Fun fact: such a WIM will
484 crash Microsoft's software.)
487 Added new "extract" and "update" subcommands to wimlib-imagex, along
488 with associated APIs in the library. These commands are intended mainly
489 for Windows use but can be used on UNIX as well.
491 Many documentation improvements.
493 Fixed a bug in the Windows build where relative symbolic links were not
494 captured in reparse-point fixup mode.
496 Fixed a bug in the Windows build where file handles were left open to
497 the WIM file, causing `wimlib_imagex optimize' to fail in some cases.
499 Fixed a bug in the Windows build of wimlib-imagex where globbing
500 split-WIM parts could cause the program to crash.
502 Fixed a bug where the creation time of WIM images would be shown instead
503 of the last modification time.
505 With the Windows build it is now possible to restore a WIM containing
506 symbolic links as a non-Administrator; however you will receive warnings
507 about not being able to extract the symbolic links.
510 Capturing a WIM image should now be significantly faster in most cases
511 due to improved use of the operating system's cache and avoiding reading
512 files twice whenever possible.
514 The Windows build should now work on Windows XP.
516 The Windows build now supports capturing and restoring hidden,
517 compressed, sparse, and encrypted files.
519 The Windows build now supports capturing and applying WIM images from
520 filesystems other than NTFS (with some reduced functionality).
522 The Windows build now extracts short names correctly.
524 Added support for "reparse-point" fixups (i.e. fixing up of symbolic
525 links). See docs for --rpfix and --norpfix flags of `wimlib-imagex
526 capture' and `wimlib-imagex apply'.
528 The performance of splitting and joining WIMs should be slightly
531 The LZX and XPRESS compression and decompression functions are now
532 exported from the library.
535 Improvements and bugfixes for the Windows build.
537 Added --strict-acls options.
539 Fixed the way that wimlib determines the order of images in the WIM.
542 Since wimlib can now be used on Windows, wimlib's implementation of
543 ImageX has been renamed to wimlib-imagex to avoid confusion with
544 Microsoft's implementation of ImageX, which would have the same file
545 name ("imagex.exe"). If you really don't like this you can pass the
546 --with-imagex-progname option to `configure' to choose a different name,
547 or even simply rename the binary yourself (but the former way will
548 configure the man pages to use the chosen name).
550 Various bugs fixed in the Windows build. Mainly to do with capturing
551 and restoring alternate data streams correctly in weird cases, and
552 requesting the correct privileges when opening files. Also added the
553 --noacls options to wimlib-imagex capture, append, and apply.
555 Windows build again: FindFirstStreamW() and FindNextStreamW() are now
556 dynamically loaded, so this may make the library compatible with Windows
557 XP (however, there may still be other problems).
560 Added experimental support for native Windows builds. Binaries can be
561 downloaded from the SourceForge page.
563 --source-list option added to `imagex capture' and `imagex append'.
565 Better support for different character encodings.
568 Storing UNIX file owners, groups, and modes in WIM images is now
569 possible using `imagex capture' with the --unix-data flag.
571 Minor bug fixes and documentation fixes.
574 NTFS capture: Fixed capturing duplicate reparse points.
576 NTFS capture: Capture first unnamed stream if there are more than one
577 (print warning instead of error).
579 Allow multiple test cases to execute concurrently (e.g. make -j2 check).
582 Added --arch switch to mkwinpeimg script to support getting AMD64 WinPE
585 Update to work with ntfs-3g version 2013.1.13.
588 Fixed truncating file to shorter but non-zero length on read-write
591 Various code cleanups and minor documentation fixes.
594 LZX and XPRESS decompression have received some additional optimizations
595 and should now be even faster. (Although, they were already pretty
596 fast--- much faster than typical I/O speeds.)
598 Fixed a bug introduced in v1.2.1 that would cause a directory tree
599 containing hard links to be captured incorrectly in some cases.
602 By default, unmounting a read-write mounted WIM with 'imagex unmount
603 --commit' will now change the WIM in-place without needing to write the
604 entire WIM again. Use 'imagex unmount --commit --rebuild' to get the
607 'imagex unmount' no longer has a hard-coded limit of 10 minutes to wait
608 for a response from the daemon servicing the mounted WIM. Instead,
609 every second 'imagex unmount' will check if the daemon is still alive,
610 and keep waiting if so, otherwise terminate with an error.
612 'imagex unmount --commit' on a read-write mounted WIM will now print
613 progress information regarding the writing of new or modified streams
614 the WIM, just like when capturing or appending a WIM.
616 A small change has been made to XPRESS compression and it should improve
617 the compression ratio slightly.
619 A change was made that may improve performance slightly when applying a
620 WIM image to a NTFS volume.
622 Microsoft has managed to introduce even more bugs into their software,
623 and now the WIMs for Windows 8 have incorrect (too low) reference counts
624 for some streams. This is unsafe because such streams can be removed
625 when they are in actuality still referenced in the WIM (perhaps by a
626 different image). wimlib will now work around this problem by fixing
627 the stream reference counts. This is only done when wimlib_delete_image() is
628 called ('imagex delete') or when wimlib_mount_image() is called with
629 WIMLIB_MOUNT_FLAG_READWRITE ('imagex mountrw'). Please note that this
630 requires reading the metadata for all images in the WIM, so this will
631 make these operations noticably slower on WIMs with multiple images.
633 Various other bugfixes.
636 Appending images to a WIM is now be done by default without re-building
637 the whole WIM. Use the --rebuild flag to get the old behavior (which
638 was to re-build the entire WIM when a new image is appended).
640 A new command `imagex optimize' is now available to manually re-build a
641 WIM that has wasted space due to repeated appends.
643 Progress information has been improved, and now arbitrary callback
644 functions can be used to show the progress of a WIM operation.
646 A possible bug with changing the bootable image of a WIM was fixed.
648 Some advisory locking is now done to prevent two processes from
649 modifying a WIM at the same time (but only in some cases). For example,
650 you cannot mount two images from a WIM read-write at the same time.
652 Some functions have been reorganized:
653 * wimlib_mount() renamed to wimlib_mount_image().
654 * wimlib_unmount() renamed to wimlib_unmount_image().
655 * wimlib_overwrite_xml_and_header() removed as
656 wimlib_overwrite() suffices now.
657 * wimlib_apply_image_to_ntfs_volume() removed as
658 wimlib_extract_image() suffices now.
659 * wimlib_add_image_from_ntfs_volume() removed as
660 * wimlib_add_image() suffices now.
662 Previously, the soname of libwim.so has been 0.0.0, despite many
663 interface changes. The soname is now updated to 1.0.0 and will now be
664 updated each release.
667 Resources will now be compressed using multiple threads by default.
668 (This applies to `imagex capture', `imagex append', and `imagex
671 Some performance improvements in mounted WIMs.
673 More progress information is shown when capturing a WIM.
676 Lots of minor fixes, code cleanups, and some documentation updates.
677 Nothing in particular is really noteworthy.
680 LZX and XPRESS compression improvements.
682 Fixed calculation of Directory Count, File Count, Total Bytes, and Hard
683 Link Bytes of the WIM.
686 Fixed bug when capturing NTFS file with multiple named data streams.
688 Internally, we are now using inode structures, even though these don't
689 appear literally in the WIM file. This simplifies some of the code
690 (mainly for WIM mounting) and likely fixed a few problems, although it
694 Fixed problem when exporting images from XPRESS to LZX compressed WIM or
698 Enough changes to call it version 1.0.0!
700 Capturing a WIM directly from a NTFS volume, and applying a WIM directly
701 to a NTFS volume, is now supported.
703 Hard links and symbolic links have much improved support. They are
704 supported for WIM capture, WIM application, and mounted WIMs (you can
705 even make them on read-write mounted WIMs).
707 Alternate data streams are now supported on mounted WIMs through an
708 xattr or a Windows-style stream interface. Also they are supported when
709 capturing a WIM from NTFS or applying a WIM to NTFS.
711 Split WIMs are better supported. You may now apply an image directly
712 from a split WIM, mount an image from a split WIM read-only, or export
713 an image from a split WIM.
715 Using a capture configuration file is now supported (but not fully yet).
717 SHA1 message digests are checked in more places, so we can make sure
718 applied and captured data is correct.
720 Man pages have been updated and consolidated.
723 Fixed segfault when unmounting read-only WIM.
726 Support for joining and splitting WIMs.
727 Also, security data is now preserved by default.
730 Can now build with older gcc and system headers, like on CentOS 5.
733 Fixed bug that made it impossible to overwrite files in read-write
737 Write byte-order mark before WIM XML data. (imagex.exe requires this to