Only the most important changes more recent than version 0.6 are noted here.
Version 1.6.3-BETA:
- Added support for "WIMBoot". On any platform, you can now capture a WIM
- as WIMBoot-compatible. In addition, on Windows, specifically Windows
- 8.1 Update 1 and later, you can now apply a WIM archive in a special
- mode that causes extracted files to be externally backed by the WIM
- archive. See the documentation for the new '--wimboot' option to
- wimcapture and wimapply, respectively, for more information.
+ Improved compatibility with version 3584 WIM / ESD files.
- The shared library version has been bumped up; however, there are only
- a few incompatibilities:
+ Performance improvements, including for extraction.
+
+ 'add' commands passed to wimupdate will now replace existing
+ nondirectory files by default. Use the --no-replace option to get the
+ old behavior.
+
+ Added support for "WIMBoot" capture and extraction. See the
+ documentation for the new '--wimboot' option to wimcapture and wimapply
+ for more information.
+
+ Removed the --hardlink and --symlink options to wimapply, since I don't
+ think they are too useful and they got in the way of improving the code.
+
+ WIMs will now retain their GUIDs when rebuilt (e.g. with wimoptimize).
+
+ The 'mkwinpeimg' script now supports writing the ISO image to standard
+ output.
+
+ On Windows, sparse file attributes are no longer set on extracted files.
+
+ The shared library version has been bumped up. The main
+ incompatibilities are:
- WIMLIB_COMPRESSION_TYPE_XPRESS is now 1 and
WIMLIB_COMPRESSION_TYPE_LZX is now 2 (so it's the same as
WIMGAPI).
- - 'struct' wimlib_capture_config has been removed. The library
+ - 'struct wimlib_capture_config' has been removed. The library
now takes the path to the configuration file directly. This
affects wimlib_add_image(), wimlib_add_image_multisource(),
and wimlib_update_image(). However no code changes are
- Removed deprecated functions: some (de)compression functions,
wimlib_extract_files(), and wimlib_print_metadata().
- Otherwise the API and ABI is the same.
+ - Removed extraction flags: WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_HARDLINK,
+ WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_SYMLINK, and
+ WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_FILE_ORDER.
+
+ - Removed progress messages:
+ WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_APPLY_TIMESTAMPS,
+ WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_DIR_STRUCTURE_BEGIN,
+ WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_DIR_STRUCTURE_END.
+
+ - WIM paths passed to progress functions now have a leading
+ slash.
Version 1.6.2:
Case-insensitive comparisons of strings (e.g. filenames) containing