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.)
6 More fixes for wimlib on non-x86 architectures such as ARM.
8 Slight performance improvements in compression and decompression.
10 Removed the --with-imagex-progname and --enable-more-assertions
14 Fix for very slow export from solid WIM / ESD files.
16 Fix for LZX and LZMS algorithms on non-x86 architectures, such as ARM.
18 New progress message: WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_HANDLE_ERROR. Applications
19 may use this to treat some types of errors as non-fatal.
21 The library now permits making in-memory changes to a WIMStruct backed
22 by a read-only WIM file.
24 Fixes for "WIMBoot" extraction mode (Windows only):
26 When not using the WOF driver, extraction no longer fails if the
27 disk containing the WIM file has too many partitions.
29 When matching patterns in [PrepopulateList], all hard links of
30 each file are now considered.
32 The system registry files are now automatically treated as being
35 Added a hack to try to work around an intermittent bug in
36 Microsoft's WOF (Windows Overlay Filesystem) driver.
39 Made more improvements to the XPRESS, LZX, and LZMS compressors.
41 A number of improvements to the Windows port:
43 Fixes for setting short filenames.
45 Faster "WIMBoot" extraction.
47 Updated and slimmed down the dependent DLLs.
49 ACL inheritence bits are now restored.
51 Mandatory integrity labels are now backed up and restored.
53 Added a workaround for an issue where in rare cases, wimlib could create
54 a compressed data stream that could not be read correctly by Windows
55 after an extraction in "WIMBoot" mode.
58 Added file count progress data for
59 WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_FILE_STRUCTURE and
60 WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_METADATA.
62 Added support for testing file exclusions via the user-provided
65 Some documentation improvements.
67 Made some clarifications to the license text in the COPYING file.
70 Made more improvements to the XPRESS, LZX, and LZMS compressors.
72 The default compression mode for wimcapture is now LZX compression in
73 its default mode, which is the same as '--compress=maximum'.
75 You can now specify an optional integer compression level to the
76 '--compress' option; e.g. '--compress=lzx:75'.
78 Made a minor change to the LZMS compressor and decompressor to fix an
79 incompatibility with the Microsoft implementation. In the unlikely
80 event that you created an LZMS-compressed WIM with wimlib v1.7.0 or
81 earlier and a checksum error is reported when extracting files from it
82 with wimlib v1.7.1, decompress it with v1.7.0 then compress it with
85 Added 'verify' subcommand to wimlib-imagex.
87 Notable library changes:
89 Custom compressor parameters have been removed from the library
90 in favor of the simpler level-based API.
92 Decompressor parameters have been removed entirely.
94 Library users can now specify a custom file for warning and
95 error messages to be sent to, rather than the default of
98 New progress messages:
99 WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_FILE_STRUCTURE,
100 WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_METADATA.
102 New function: wimlib_verify_wim().
105 Improved compression, decompression, and extraction performance.
107 Improved compatibility with version 3584 WIM / ESD files:
108 - Add support for reading and writing multiple solid blocks per
109 archive, which WIMGAPI/DISM can create when appending an image.
110 - Correctly create solid blocks larger than 4 GiB.
112 'add' commands passed to wimupdate will now replace existing
113 nondirectory files by default. Use the --no-replace option to get the
116 The license for the library now contains an exception that allows using
117 it under the LGPL. See the COPYING file for details.
119 In reparse-point fixup mode (the default for capture), symbolic links
120 and junctions that point outside the tree being captured are no longer
121 excluded from capture.
123 Added support for "WIMBoot" capture and extraction. See the
124 documentation for the new '--wimboot' option to wimcapture and wimapply
125 for more information.
127 On UNIX-like systems, you can now backup and restore device nodes, named
128 pipes, and sockets. In addition, 32-bit user and group IDs are now
131 The way that UNIX data is stored in WIM files has been changed. If you
132 captured any WIMs with the --unix-data option, to upgrade them you'll
133 need to apply them with --unix-data using wimlib-imagex v1.6.2, then
134 re-capture them with --unix-data using this version.
136 wimlib now understands tagged metadata items, such as object IDs, that
137 can be stored in WIM directory entries.
139 Removed the --hardlink and --symlink options to wimapply, since I don't
140 think they are too useful and they got in the way of improving the code.
142 WIMs will now retain their GUIDs when rebuilt (e.g. with wimoptimize).
144 The 'mkwinpeimg' script now supports writing the ISO image to standard
147 The <ARCH> element in WIM XML data is now exported correctly.
149 On Windows, sparse file attributes are no longer set on extracted files.
150 Oddly enough, this actually saves disk space in some cases.
152 On UNIX, configuring with --disable-xattr or --enable-xattr is no longer
153 supported. Mounting WIM images now always requires extended attribute
154 support. Use --without-fuse to disable support for mounting WIM images;
155 this will also disable the need for extended attribute support.
157 Configuring with --enable-ssse3-sha1 now works correctly.
159 The shared library version has been bumped up. The main
160 incompatibilities are:
162 - WIMLIB_COMPRESSION_TYPE_XPRESS is now 1 and
163 WIMLIB_COMPRESSION_TYPE_LZX is now 2 (so it's the same as
166 - User-provided progress functions are now registered using a
167 separate function, wimlib_register_progress_function(). The
168 'progress_func' argument to many functions no longer exists.
170 - The return value from user-provided progress functions is now
173 - A context argument has been added to the prototype of
174 user-provided progress functions.
176 - 'struct wimlib_capture_config' has been removed. The library
177 now takes the path to the configuration file directly. This
178 affects wimlib_add_image(), wimlib_add_image_multisource(),
179 and wimlib_update_image(). However, a NULL value passed in
180 the argument retains the same meaning.
182 - Removed deprecated functions: some (de)compression functions,
183 wimlib_extract_files(), and wimlib_print_metadata().
185 - Removed extraction flags: WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_HARDLINK,
186 WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_SYMLINK, WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_FILE_ORDER,
187 and WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_SEQUENTIAL.
189 - Removed some progress messages:
190 WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_APPLY_TIMESTAMPS,
191 WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_DIR_STRUCTURE_BEGIN,
192 WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_DIR_STRUCTURE_END. Numbering
195 - Removed some error codes. Numbering stays the same.
197 - Replaced WIMLIB_UNMOUNT_FLAG_LAZY with
198 WIMLIB_UNMOUNT_FLAG_FORCE.
200 - WIM paths passed to progress functions now have a leading
204 Case-insensitive comparisons of strings (e.g. filenames) containing
205 UTF-16 codepoints above 32767 are now done correctly.
207 Fixed build failure on Mac OS X.
209 wimunmount now provides the '--new-image' option to cause changes to a
210 read-write mounted image to be committed as a new image rather than as
211 an update of the mounted image. (The corresponding new library flag is
212 WIMLIB_UNMOUNT_FLAG_NEW_IMAGE.)
214 The LZMS ("recovery") compression chunk size, or "dictionary size", may
215 now be up to 1 GiB (1,073,741,824 bytes).
217 The performance of LZX ("maximum") and LZMS ("recovery") compression
218 with large chunk sizes has been slightly improved.
221 Stored files with size exactly 4 GiB (4,294,967,296 bytes) are now
222 decompressed correctly.
224 Fixed a bug in the LZX compressor introduced in v1.5.3. The bug
225 occurred in an unlikely case, and due to validity checks it did not
226 affect successfully created archives.
228 Fixed a minor compatibility issue with the LZMS compressor and
229 decompressor. This is *not* the default compression type and was only
230 introduced in v1.6.0. In the unlikely event that you created an
231 LZMS-compressed WIM with v1.6.0 and a checksum error is reported when
232 applying it with v1.6.1, decompress it with v1.6.0 then compress it with
235 Memory usage for LZMS and LZX compression has been decreased.
237 wimextract now allows wildcard characters in paths specified on the
238 command line. Also, the '--strict-wildcards' option has been removed
239 and replaced with the inverse option '--nullglob'. See the
240 documentation for wimextract for more details and changes.
242 The wimlib_extract_files() function is now considered deprecated in
243 favor of wimlib_extract_paths().
245 Fixed more permissions problems when extracting files on Windows.
247 A new '--no-attributes' option has been added to wimapply and
248 wimextract. The library flag is WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_NO_ATTRIBUTES.
250 The default chunk size is now set correctly when changing the
251 compression type of a WIM, for example with 'wimoptimize'.
253 The '--metadata' option to wiminfo has been replaced with the
254 '--detailed' option to wimdir.
256 In relevant wimlib-imagex commands, '--solid' may now be used as an
257 alias for '--pack-streams'.
260 Support for extracting and updating the new version 3584 WIMs has been
261 added. These WIMs typically pack many streams ("files") together into a
262 single compressed resource, thereby saving space. This degrades the
263 performance of random access (such as that which occurs on a mounted
264 image), but optimizations have been implemented for extraction. These
265 new WIM files also typically use a new compression format (LZMS), which
266 is similar to LZMA and can offer a better compression ratio than LZX.
267 These new WIM files can be created using `wimcapture' with
268 the '--compress=lzms --pack-streams' options. Note: this new WIM format
269 is used by the Windows 8 web downloader, but important segments of the
270 raw '.esd' files are encrypted, so wimlib will not be able to extract
271 such files until they are first decrypted.
273 wimlib now supports extracting files and directories from a WIM image
274 based on a "listfile" that itself contains the list of paths to extract.
275 For `wimextract', the syntax is to specify @LISTFILE instead of a PATH,
276 and for the library itself, the new APIs are wimlib_extract_pathlist()
277 and wimlib_extract_paths(). Path globs containing wildcard characters
280 For searching WIM files, wimlib now has configurable case sensitivity.
281 The default on Windows is still case-insensitive and the default on
282 UNIX-like systems is still case-sensitive, but this can be overridden
283 on either platform through flags to wimlib_global_init(). For
284 `wimlib-imagex', the environmental variable WIMLIB_IMAGEX_IGNORE_CASE
285 can be set to 1 or 0 for case-insensitive or case-sensitive behavior,
288 Support for compression chunk sizes greater than the default of 32768
289 bytes has been added. A larger chunk size typically results in a better
290 compression ratio. However, the MS implementation is seemingly not
291 compatible with all chunk sizes, especially for LZX compression, so the
292 defaults remain unchanged, with the exception of the new LZMS-compressed
293 WIMs, which use a larger chunk size by default.
295 The compression/decompression API exported by wimlib has been changed.
296 Now one set of functions handles all supported compression formats.
298 `wimcapture' and `wimappend' will now display the progress of scanning
299 the directory tree to capture, in addition to the progress of writing
300 data to the WIM. The '--verbose' option no longer does anything. The
301 library API change for this is the addition of several members to
302 `struct wimlib_progress_info_scan' available to progress callbacks.
304 `mkwinpeimg' now correctly handles the '--start-script' option when the
305 start script is not in the working directory.
307 Sequential extraction, previously requested by using
308 WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_SEQUENTIAL, is now the default.
309 WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_FILE_ORDER can be used to get the old default
310 behavior (extract in file order).
313 The new LZX compressor added in v1.5.2 has been improved and is now
314 enabled by default, except when `wimcapture' or `wimappend' is run
315 *without* the '--compress' option, in which case the faster LZX
316 compressor is used (the same as before). This behavior is reasonably
317 consistent with ImageX which actually uses "fast" (XPRESS) compression
318 by default. In those cases, use '--compress=maximum' to explicitly
319 capture a WIM image using the new (slower but better) LZX compressor.
321 The '--compress-slow' option still exists to `wimlib-imagex optimize',
322 but its new behavior is to tweak the new LZX compressor even more to
323 produce an even better compression ratio at the cost of more time spent
326 `wimlib-imagex optimize' now supports the '--compress=TYPE' option,
327 which recompresses the WIM file using the specified compression TYPE.
328 The new library API function used for this is
329 wimlib_set_output_compression_type().
331 Added the wimlib_get_xml_data() function to allow library clients to
332 easily retrieve the raw XML data from a WIM file if needed.
334 Fixed a bug that could cause an error code to be incorrectly returned
335 when writing XML data containing a <WINDOWS> element.
337 Mounted WIM images will now correctly show the default file stream even
338 if appears in the alternate data stream entries of the corresponding WIM
342 Added a new experimental LZX compressor which can be enabled by passing
343 '--compress-slow' to `wimlib-imagex capture' or `wimlib-imagex
344 optimize'. (The latter is only applicable if the WIM is already
345 LZX-compressed and the '--recompress' option is also given.) The
346 experimental compressor is much slower but compresses the data slightly
347 more --- currently usually to within a fraction of a percent of the
348 results from WIMGAPI/ImageX.
350 A workaround has been added for compatibility with versions of WinPE
351 that interpret alternate data stream entries in the boot WIM
354 An alignment bug that caused a crash in the LZX decompressor on some
357 wimlib now attempts to clear the WIM_HDR_FLAG_WRITE_IN_PROGRESS flag in
358 the WIM header when restoring the previous state of a WIM it failed to
361 Added a workaround to avoid an access denied error on Windows when
362 replacing a WIM file that another process has opened.
365 wimlib can now open WinPE WIMs from WAIK v2.1, which had a quirk that
366 needed to be handled.
368 A bug in the interpretation of negative IMAGE indices in the
369 --update-of=[WIMFILE:]IMAGE option to `wimlib-imagex capture' and
370 `wimlib-imagex append' has been fixed.
372 A workaround has been added to successfully apply security descriptors
373 with empty DACLs when the NTFS-3g apply mode is being used with NTFS-3g
374 2013.1.13 or earlier.
376 `wimlib-imagex capture' can now accept the '--delta-from' option
380 Added support for "pipable" WIMs. Pipable WIMs allow capturing images
381 to standard output and applying images from standard input, but they are
382 not compatible with Microsoft's software and are not created by default.
383 See the documentation for --pipable flag of `wimlib-imagex capture' for
386 To better support incremental backups, added support for declaring an
387 image as a modified form of another image. See the documentation for
388 the '--update-of' option of `wimlib-imagex append' and `wimlib-imagex
391 Added supported for "delta" WIMs. See the documentation for the
392 '--delta-from' option of `wimlib-imagex capture'.
394 The library support for managing split WIMs has been changed to support
395 other arrangements, such as delta WIMs, and be easier to use. This
396 change is visible in `wimlib-imagex', which also can now accept the
397 '--ref' option multiple times, and also now supports "delta" WIMs as
400 wimlib now preserves WIM integrity tables by default, even if
401 WIMLIB_WRITE_FLAG_CHECK_INTEGRITY is not specified. This changes the
402 behavior of `wimlib-imagex' whenever the WIM being operated on contains
403 an integrity table and the '--check' option is not specified.
405 `wimlib-imagex capture' now creates LZX-compressed WIMs by default
406 (when --compress is not specified). This provides the best compression
407 ratio by default, which is usually what is desired, at a cost of some
410 `wimlib-imagex' now supports being invoked as wimCOMMAND, where COMMAND
411 is the command as in `wimlib-imagex COMMAND'; for example, it can be
412 invoked as `wimapply' as an alternative to `wimlib-imagex apply'. The
413 appropriate hard links are created in UNIX installations of
414 `wimlib-imagex', while for the Windows distribution of `wimlib-imagex',
415 batch files that emulate this behavior are generated.
417 Security descriptors are now extracted correctly on Windows.
419 Fixed archiving DOS names in NTFS-3g capture mode.
421 The extraction code has been rewritten and it will now be easier to
422 support new features on all supported backends (currently Win32, UNIX,
423 and NTFS-3g). For example, hard-linked extraction mode (--hardlink) is
424 now supported on all backends, not just UNIX.
426 `mkwinpeimg' now supports grabbing files from the WAIK supplement rather
427 than the WAIK itself.
429 wimlib_global_init() now, by default, attempts to acquire additional
430 privileges on Windows, so library clients need not do this.
432 This update bumps the shared library version number up to 9, since it is
433 not binary compatibible with previous releases.
436 Fixed bug in `wimlib-imagex export' that made it impossible to export an
437 image from a WIM that is readonly at the filesystem level.
439 Return error code rather than segfaulting when trying to list files from
440 a non-first part of a split WIM.
442 Joining a WIM will now preserve the RP_FIX and READONLY flags.
445 On Windows, paths given to wimlib-imagex are now treated case
448 Improved behavior regarding invalid filenames; in particular, on
449 Windows, wimlib-imagex will, when extracting, now omit (with an option
450 to override this default) filenames differing only in case, or filenames
451 containing characters not valid on Windows.
453 On Windows, wimlib now supports capturing and extracting long paths
454 (longer than the so-called MAX_PATH).
456 On Windows, `wimlib-imagex update' now acquires proper privileges when
457 running as an Administrator.
459 `wimlib-imagex update' will now complain if no image is specified when
460 trying to update a multi-image WIM.
462 `wimlib-imagex update' now supports specifying a single update command
463 directly on the command line using the --command option.
465 wimlib-imagex will now choose different units for progress messages,
466 depending on the amount of data that needs to be processed.
468 `wimlib-imagex append' will now generate a unique WIM image name if no
469 name is specified and the defaulted name already exists in the WIM.
471 wimlib now allows you to create unnamed WIM images, which can then only
472 be referred to by index.
474 wimlib now allows you to explicitly declare you want write access to a
475 WIM by providing the WIMLIB_OPEN_FLAG_WRITE_ACCESS flag to
478 wimlib now respects the WIM_HDR_FLAG_READONLY flag when set in the WIM
481 Progress callbacks have been added to wimlib's wimlib_update_image()
484 Added wimlib_get_wim_info(), wimlib_set_wim_info(),
485 wimlib_iterate_dir_tree(), and wimlib_iterate_lookup_table() functions
488 NTFS-3g capture now only warns about two conditions previously treated
491 Fixed a couple issues with using wimlib-imagex on UDF filesystems on
494 wimlib now correctly detects and returns an error when reading a WIM
495 image with a cyclic directory structure. (Fun fact: such a WIM will
496 crash Microsoft's software.)
499 Added new "extract" and "update" subcommands to wimlib-imagex, along
500 with associated APIs in the library. These commands are intended mainly
501 for Windows use but can be used on UNIX as well.
503 Many documentation improvements.
505 Fixed a bug in the Windows build where relative symbolic links were not
506 captured in reparse-point fixup mode.
508 Fixed a bug in the Windows build where file handles were left open to
509 the WIM file, causing `wimlib_imagex optimize' to fail in some cases.
511 Fixed a bug in the Windows build of wimlib-imagex where globbing
512 split-WIM parts could cause the program to crash.
514 Fixed a bug where the creation time of WIM images would be shown instead
515 of the last modification time.
517 With the Windows build it is now possible to restore a WIM containing
518 symbolic links as a non-Administrator; however you will receive warnings
519 about not being able to extract the symbolic links.
522 Capturing a WIM image should now be significantly faster in most cases
523 due to improved use of the operating system's cache and avoiding reading
524 files twice whenever possible.
526 The Windows build should now work on Windows XP.
528 The Windows build now supports capturing and restoring hidden,
529 compressed, sparse, and encrypted files.
531 The Windows build now supports capturing and applying WIM images from
532 filesystems other than NTFS (with some reduced functionality).
534 The Windows build now extracts short names correctly.
536 Added support for "reparse-point" fixups (i.e. fixing up of symbolic
537 links). See docs for --rpfix and --norpfix flags of `wimlib-imagex
538 capture' and `wimlib-imagex apply'.
540 The performance of splitting and joining WIMs should be slightly
543 The LZX and XPRESS compression and decompression functions are now
544 exported from the library.
547 Improvements and bugfixes for the Windows build.
549 Added --strict-acls options.
551 Fixed the way that wimlib determines the order of images in the WIM.
554 Since wimlib can now be used on Windows, wimlib's implementation of
555 ImageX has been renamed to wimlib-imagex to avoid confusion with
556 Microsoft's implementation of ImageX, which would have the same file
557 name ("imagex.exe"). If you really don't like this you can pass the
558 --with-imagex-progname option to `configure' to choose a different name,
559 or even simply rename the binary yourself (but the former way will
560 configure the man pages to use the chosen name).
562 Various bugs fixed in the Windows build. Mainly to do with capturing
563 and restoring alternate data streams correctly in weird cases, and
564 requesting the correct privileges when opening files. Also added the
565 --noacls options to wimlib-imagex capture, append, and apply.
567 Windows build again: FindFirstStreamW() and FindNextStreamW() are now
568 dynamically loaded, so this may make the library compatible with Windows
569 XP (however, there may still be other problems).
572 Added experimental support for native Windows builds. Binaries can be
573 downloaded from the SourceForge page.
575 --source-list option added to `imagex capture' and `imagex append'.
577 Better support for different character encodings.
580 Storing UNIX file owners, groups, and modes in WIM images is now
581 possible using `imagex capture' with the --unix-data flag.
583 Minor bug fixes and documentation fixes.
586 NTFS capture: Fixed capturing duplicate reparse points.
588 NTFS capture: Capture first unnamed stream if there are more than one
589 (print warning instead of error).
591 Allow multiple test cases to execute concurrently (e.g. make -j2 check).
594 Added --arch switch to mkwinpeimg script to support getting AMD64 WinPE
597 Update to work with ntfs-3g version 2013.1.13.
600 Fixed truncating file to shorter but non-zero length on read-write
603 Various code cleanups and minor documentation fixes.
606 LZX and XPRESS decompression have received some additional optimizations
607 and should now be even faster. (Although, they were already pretty
608 fast--- much faster than typical I/O speeds.)
610 Fixed a bug introduced in v1.2.1 that would cause a directory tree
611 containing hard links to be captured incorrectly in some cases.
614 By default, unmounting a read-write mounted WIM with 'imagex unmount
615 --commit' will now change the WIM in-place without needing to write the
616 entire WIM again. Use 'imagex unmount --commit --rebuild' to get the
619 'imagex unmount' no longer has a hard-coded limit of 10 minutes to wait
620 for a response from the daemon servicing the mounted WIM. Instead,
621 every second 'imagex unmount' will check if the daemon is still alive,
622 and keep waiting if so, otherwise terminate with an error.
624 'imagex unmount --commit' on a read-write mounted WIM will now print
625 progress information regarding the writing of new or modified streams
626 the WIM, just like when capturing or appending a WIM.
628 A small change has been made to XPRESS compression and it should improve
629 the compression ratio slightly.
631 A change was made that may improve performance slightly when applying a
632 WIM image to a NTFS volume.
634 Microsoft has managed to introduce even more bugs into their software,
635 and now the WIMs for Windows 8 have incorrect (too low) reference counts
636 for some streams. This is unsafe because such streams can be removed
637 when they are in actuality still referenced in the WIM (perhaps by a
638 different image). wimlib will now work around this problem by fixing
639 the stream reference counts. This is only done when wimlib_delete_image() is
640 called ('imagex delete') or when wimlib_mount_image() is called with
641 WIMLIB_MOUNT_FLAG_READWRITE ('imagex mountrw'). Please note that this
642 requires reading the metadata for all images in the WIM, so this will
643 make these operations noticably slower on WIMs with multiple images.
645 Various other bugfixes.
648 Appending images to a WIM is now be done by default without re-building
649 the whole WIM. Use the --rebuild flag to get the old behavior (which
650 was to re-build the entire WIM when a new image is appended).
652 A new command `imagex optimize' is now available to manually re-build a
653 WIM that has wasted space due to repeated appends.
655 Progress information has been improved, and now arbitrary callback
656 functions can be used to show the progress of a WIM operation.
658 A possible bug with changing the bootable image of a WIM was fixed.
660 Some advisory locking is now done to prevent two processes from
661 modifying a WIM at the same time (but only in some cases). For example,
662 you cannot mount two images from a WIM read-write at the same time.
664 Some functions have been reorganized:
665 * wimlib_mount() renamed to wimlib_mount_image().
666 * wimlib_unmount() renamed to wimlib_unmount_image().
667 * wimlib_overwrite_xml_and_header() removed as
668 wimlib_overwrite() suffices now.
669 * wimlib_apply_image_to_ntfs_volume() removed as
670 wimlib_extract_image() suffices now.
671 * wimlib_add_image_from_ntfs_volume() removed as
672 * wimlib_add_image() suffices now.
674 Previously, the soname of libwim.so has been 0.0.0, despite many
675 interface changes. The soname is now updated to 1.0.0 and will now be
676 updated each release.
679 Resources will now be compressed using multiple threads by default.
680 (This applies to `imagex capture', `imagex append', and `imagex
683 Some performance improvements in mounted WIMs.
685 More progress information is shown when capturing a WIM.
688 Lots of minor fixes, code cleanups, and some documentation updates.
689 Nothing in particular is really noteworthy.
692 LZX and XPRESS compression improvements.
694 Fixed calculation of Directory Count, File Count, Total Bytes, and Hard
695 Link Bytes of the WIM.
698 Fixed bug when capturing NTFS file with multiple named data streams.
700 Internally, we are now using inode structures, even though these don't
701 appear literally in the WIM file. This simplifies some of the code
702 (mainly for WIM mounting) and likely fixed a few problems, although it
706 Fixed problem when exporting images from XPRESS to LZX compressed WIM or
710 Enough changes to call it version 1.0.0!
712 Capturing a WIM directly from a NTFS volume, and applying a WIM directly
713 to a NTFS volume, is now supported.
715 Hard links and symbolic links have much improved support. They are
716 supported for WIM capture, WIM application, and mounted WIMs (you can
717 even make them on read-write mounted WIMs).
719 Alternate data streams are now supported on mounted WIMs through an
720 xattr or a Windows-style stream interface. Also they are supported when
721 capturing a WIM from NTFS or applying a WIM to NTFS.
723 Split WIMs are better supported. You may now apply an image directly
724 from a split WIM, mount an image from a split WIM read-only, or export
725 an image from a split WIM.
727 Using a capture configuration file is now supported (but not fully yet).
729 SHA1 message digests are checked in more places, so we can make sure
730 applied and captured data is correct.
732 Man pages have been updated and consolidated.
735 Fixed segfault when unmounting read-only WIM.
738 Support for joining and splitting WIMs.
739 Also, security data is now preserved by default.
742 Can now build with older gcc and system headers, like on CentOS 5.
745 Fixed bug that made it impossible to overwrite files in read-write
749 Write byte-order mark before WIM XML data. (imagex.exe requires this to