Only the most important changes more recent than version 0.6 are noted here.
Version 1.7.0-BETA:
- Improved compatibility with version 3584 WIM / ESD files.
+ Improved compatibility with version 3584 WIM / ESD files:
+ - Add support for reading and writing multiple solid blocks per
+ archive, which WIMGAPI/DISM can create when appending an image.
+ - Correctly create solid blocks larger than 4 GiB.
- Performance improvements, including for extraction.
+ Improved decompression, compression, and extraction performance.
'add' commands passed to wimupdate will now replace existing
nondirectory files by default. Use the --no-replace option to get the
old behavior.
+ In reparse-point fixup mode (the default for capture), symbolic links
+ and junctions that point outside the tree being captured are no longer
+ excluded from capture.
+
Added support for "WIMBoot" capture and extraction. See the
documentation for the new '--wimboot' option to wimcapture and wimapply
for more information.