image), but optimizations have been implemented for extraction. These
new WIM files also typically use a new compression format (LZMS), which
is similar to LZMA and can offer a better compression ratio than LZX.
- These new WIM files can be created with Dism using '/compress recovery',
- or using `wimcapture' using '--pack-streams', although wimlib's LZMS
- compressor is not yet very good, the latter is not recommended. Note:
- this new WIM format is used by the Windows 8 web downloader, but
- important segments of the raw '.esd' files are encrypted, so wimlib will
- not be able to extract such files until they are first decrypted.
+ These new WIM files can be created using `wimcapture' with
+ the '--compress=lzms --pack-streams' options. Note: this new WIM format
+ is used by the Windows 8 web downloader, but important segments of the
+ raw '.esd' files are encrypted, so wimlib will not be able to extract
+ such files until they are first decrypted.
wimlib now supports extracting files and directories from a WIM image
based on a "listfile" that itself contains the list of paths to extract.
For searching WIM files, wimlib now has configurable case sensitivity.
The default on Windows is still case-insensitive and the default on
- UNIX-like systems is still case-sensitive, but this can be overwridden
+ UNIX-like systems is still case-sensitive, but this can be overridden
on either platform through flags to wimlib_global_init(). For
`wimlib-imagex', the environmental variable WIMLIB_IMAGEX_IGNORE_CASE
can be set to 1 or 0 for case-insensitive or case-sensitive behavior,
WIMs, which use a larger chunk size by default.
The compression/decompression API exported by wimlib has been changed.
- Now one set of functions support all supported compression formats.
+ Now one set of functions handles all supported compression formats.
`wimcapture' and `wimappend' will now display the progress of scanning
the directory tree to capture, in addition to the progress of writing
`mkwinpeimg' now correctly handles the '--start-script' option when the
start script is not in the working directory.
- Sequential extraction, previously required by using
+ Sequential extraction, previously requested by using
WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_SEQUENTIAL, is now the default.
- WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_FILE_ORDER can be used to get the old behavior
- (extract in file order).
+ WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_FILE_ORDER can be used to get the old default
+ behavior (extract in file order).
Version 1.5.3:
The new LZX compressor added in v1.5.2 has been improved and is now