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
The 'mkwinpeimg' script now supports writing the ISO image to standard
output.
+ The <ARCH> element in WIM XML data will now be exported correctly.
+
On Windows, sparse file attributes are no longer set on extracted files.
+ Oddly enough, this actually saves disk space in some cases.
On UNIX, configuring with --disable-xattr or --enable-xattr is no longer
supported. Mounting WIM images now always requires extended attribute
wimlib_extract_files(), and wimlib_print_metadata().
- Removed extraction flags: WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_HARDLINK,
- WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_SYMLINK, and
- WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_FILE_ORDER.
+ WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_SYMLINK, WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_FILE_ORDER,
+ and WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_SEQUENTIAL.
- Removed progress messages:
WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_APPLY_TIMESTAMPS,
WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_DIR_STRUCTURE_BEGIN,
- WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_DIR_STRUCTURE_END.
+ WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_DIR_STRUCTURE_END. Numbering
+ stays the same.
+
+ - Removed some error codes. Numbering stays the same.
+
+ - Replaced WIMLIB_UNMOUNT_FLAG_LAZY with
+ WIMLIB_UNMOUNT_FLAG_FORCE.
- WIM paths passed to progress functions now have a leading
slash.