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, 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 for more information.
+ Improved compatibility with version 3584 WIM / ESD files.
+
+ 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.
- Fixed reading out-of-order entries in lookup table of version 3584 WIM /
- ESD files.
+ Added support for "WIMBoot" capture and extraction. See the
+ documentation for the new '--wimboot' option to wimcapture and wimapply
+ for more information.
+
+ The format of UNIX data has been changed. If you captured any WIMs with
+ the --unix-data option, to upgrade them you'll need to apply them with
+ --unix-data using wimlib v1.6.2, then re-capture them with --unix-data
+ using this version.
+
+ 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.
- The shared library version has been bumped up; however, there are only a
- few incompatibilities:
+ 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
- Removed deprecated functions: some (de)compression functions,
wimlib_extract_files(), and wimlib_print_metadata().
+ - 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.