-Version 1.7.1-BETA:
- The new (as of v1.7.0) extraction code will no longer run out of file
- handles when extracting many (1000+) identical files.
+Version 1.7.4-BETA:
+ Extracting files to a Windows PE in-memory filesystem no longer fails if
+ the target files do not yet exist. (Broken since v1.7.0, but actually a
+ result of a Microsoft bug.)
- Library users can now initialize and de-initialize the library multiple
- times in one run of an application program.
+ More fixes for wimlib on non-x86 architectures such as ARM.
- Library users will now receive WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_WRITE_STREAMS and
- WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_STREAMS messages more frequently when
- writing or extracting large WIM files.
+ Slight performance improvements in compression and decompression.
- Added experimental new write flag:
- WIMLIB_WRITE_FLAG_SEND_DONE_WITH_FILE_MESSAGES.
+Version 1.7.3:
+ Fix for very slow export from solid WIM / ESD files.
- Library users can now specify a custom file for warning and error
- messages to be sent to, rather than the default of standard error.
+ Fix for LZX and LZMS algorithms on non-x86 architectures, such as ARM.
+
+ New progress message: WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_HANDLE_ERROR. Applications
+ may use this to treat some types of errors as non-fatal.
+
+ The library now permits making in-memory changes to a WIMStruct backed
+ by a read-only WIM file.
+
+ Fixes for "WIMBoot" extraction mode (Windows only):
+
+ When not using the WOF driver, extraction no longer fails if the
+ disk containing the WIM file has too many partitions.
+
+ When matching patterns in [PrepopulateList], all hard links of
+ each file are now considered.
+
+ The system registry files are now automatically treated as being
+ in [PrepopulateList].
+
+ Added a hack to try to work around an intermittent bug in
+ Microsoft's WOF (Windows Overlay Filesystem) driver.
+
+Version 1.7.2:
+ Made more improvements to the XPRESS, LZX, and LZMS compressors.
+
+ A number of improvements to the Windows port:
+
+ Fixes for setting short filenames.
+
+ Faster "WIMBoot" extraction.
+
+ Updated and slimmed down the dependent DLLs.
+
+ ACL inheritence bits are now restored.
+
+ Mandatory integrity labels are now backed up and restored.
+
+ Added a workaround for an issue where in rare cases, wimlib could create
+ a compressed data stream that could not be read correctly by Windows
+ after an extraction in "WIMBoot" mode.
+
+ Library changes:
+ Added file count progress data for
+ WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_FILE_STRUCTURE and
+ WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_METADATA.
+
+ Added support for testing file exclusions via the user-provided
+ progress function.
+
+ Some documentation improvements.
+
+ Made some clarifications to the license text in the COPYING file.
+
+Version 1.7.1:
+ Made more improvements to the XPRESS, LZX, and LZMS compressors.
+
+ The default compression mode for wimcapture is now LZX compression in
+ its default mode, which is the same as '--compress=maximum'.
+
+ You can now specify an optional integer compression level to the
+ '--compress' option; e.g. '--compress=lzx:75'.
+
+ Made a minor change to the LZMS compressor and decompressor to fix an
+ incompatibility with the Microsoft implementation. In the unlikely
+ event that you created an LZMS-compressed WIM with wimlib v1.7.0 or
+ earlier and a checksum error is reported when extracting files from it
+ with wimlib v1.7.1, decompress it with v1.7.0 then compress it with
+ v1.7.1.
+
+ Added 'verify' subcommand to wimlib-imagex.
+
+ Notable library changes:
+
+ Custom compressor parameters have been removed from the library
+ in favor of the simpler level-based API.
+
+ Decompressor parameters have been removed entirely.
+
+ Library users can now specify a custom file for warning and
+ error messages to be sent to, rather than the default of
+ standard error.
+
+ New progress messages:
+ WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_FILE_STRUCTURE,
+ WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_METADATA.
+
+ New function: wimlib_verify_wim().
Version 1.7.0:
Improved compression, decompression, and extraction performance.