Version 1.8.3-BETA:
Fixed a bug with libntfs-3g extraction present since v1.8.1. Sometimes,
some Microsoft software would not correctly recognize data in the
- resulting filesystem. Users of the (UNIX-only) NTFS-3g based WIM
- extraction support should not use wimlib v1.8.1 or wimlib v1.8.2.
+ resulting filesystem.
- Made some small improvements to the compression algorithms.
+ Made some small improvements to the compression algorithms:
+ LZX compression ratio was slightly improved.
+ XPRESS compression ratio and speed was slightly improved.
+ LZMS compression speed was slightly improved.
- Improved handling of WIM XML data and added two new API functions:
+ Improved handling of WIM XML data. wimlib no longer drops unrecognized
+ elements when exporting images. In addition, two API functions were
+ added for better access to elements in the XML document:
wimlib_get_image_property() and wimlib_set_image_property().
+ Added support for (unsafe) in-place compaction of WIM files.
+
+ Improved performance of image export by reusing metadata resources
+ instead of always rebuilding and recompressing them.
+
+ Improved performance of wimlib_update_image() by delaying the update to
+ the WIM's XML document until a write is requested.
+
+ On Windows, the target of an extraction may now be a reparse point.
+
Several improvements to System Compression (compact mode) support:
wof.sys (or wofadk.sys) is now automatically attached to the