-Only the most important changes more recent than version 0.6 are noted here.
+Version 1.13.0-BETA:
+ On Windows, wimlib now supports capturing and applying extended
+ attributes (EAs). It is compatible with DISM with the /EA option,
+ available since Windows 10 version 1607. wimlib's EA support is on by
+ default; no option has to be provided, and it should work on older
+ versions of Windows too.
+
+ Partially fixed a bug where [ExclusionException] entries didn't take
+ effect when the containing directory is matched by [ExclusionList]. It
+ now works when the [ExclusionException] patterns are absolute. For
+ example, listing "/dir/file" in [ExclusionException] now works even if
+ "/dir" is matched by [ExclusionList].
+
+ Added a '--create' option to 'wimappend' which makes it create the WIM
+ file (like 'wimcapture') if it doesn't exist yet.
+
+ Added an '--include-integrity' option to various wimlib-imagex commands.
+ '--include-integrity' is like '--check', but it will just include an
+ integrity table in the output WIM(s), while skipping verification of any
+ existing integrity tables. This can be useful to avoid unwanted
+ verification of large WIM files, e.g. WIMs given by '--delta-from'.
+
+ 'wimextract' now reads a pathlist file from standard input when "@-" is
+ given as an argument.
+
+ wimsplit (API: wimlib_split()) now correctly handles a dot in the path
+ to the first split WIM part, prior to the filename extension.
+
+ 'wimlib-imagex --version' now shows the version of the library it is
+ actually using (in case it is different from wimlib-imagex's version).
+
+Version 1.12.0:
+ Fixed a bug that was causing the LZMS decompressor to be miscompiled
+ with GCC 7 (this broke extracting "solid" archives).
+
+ The Windows 10 Recycle Bin directory (\$RECYCLE.BIN) has been added to
+ the default exclusion list.
+
+ Added a '--quiet' option to wimlib-imagex.
+
+ The 'mkwinpeimg' script now also looks for the syslinux BIOS modules in
+ the directory /usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios.
+
+ Files with timestamps before the year 1970 are now extracted correctly
+ to UNIX-style filesystems, are displayed correctly by
+ 'wimdir --detailed', and show up correctly in mounted WIM images.
+
+ Files with timestamps after the year 2038 are now displayed correctly by
+ the 32-bit Windows build of wimlib.
+
+Version 1.11.0:
+ Fixed a data corruption bug (incorrect compression) when storing an
+ already highly-compressed file in an LZX-compressed WIM with a chunk
+ size greater than or equal to 64K. Note that this is not the default
+ setting and such WIMs are not supported by Microsoft's WIM software, so
+ only users who used the --chunk-size option to wimlib-imagex or the
+ wimlib_set_output_chunk_size() API function may have been affected.
+ This bug was introduced in wimlib v1.10.0. See
+ https://wimlib.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=300 for more details.
+
+ On all platforms, sparse files are now extracted as sparse.
+
+ Sparse files captured from UNIX-style filesystems are now marked as
+ sparse in the resulting WIM image.
+
+ Added support for storing Linux-style extended attributes in WIM images.
+ When the --unix-data option is used on Linux, wimlib-imagex now captures
+ and applies extended attributes, in addition to the already-supported
+ standard UNIX file permissions (owner/group/mode) and special files.
+
+ --delta-from is now supported by wimappend. (Previously it was only
+ supported by wimcapture.)
+
+ On Windows, improved the way in which files deduplicated with Windows'
+ Data Deduplication feature are captured.
+
+ The development files needed to link with wimlib using Visual Studio are
+ now included in the Windows release archives.
+
+ wimlib.h can now be included by Visual Studio without errors.
+
+ The example programs can now be compiled in C++ mode, and they also now
+ work on Windows.
+
+ Updated 'mkwinpeimg' to work correctly on images that have a "windows"
+ (lower case) directory rather than a "Windows" (upper case) directory.
+
+ Fixed configuring with --enable-ssse3-sha1 from release tarball
+ (the file nasm_lt.sh was missing).
+
+ Made some documentation improvements.
+
+Version 1.10.0:
+ The LZX compression ratio has been slightly improved. The default mode,
+ LZX level 50, is now almost as good as the old LZX level 100, while
+ being nearly the same speed as before.
+
+ Decompression performance has been slightly improved.
+
+ Filenames are now always listed in NTFS collation order.
+
+ On UNIX-like systems, wimlib can now process Windows filenames that are
+ not valid Unicode due to the presence of unpaired surrogates.
+
+ On UNIX-like systems, wimlib now always assumes UTF-8 encoding with the
+ addition of surrogate codepoints. Consequently, the environmental
+ variable WIMLIB_IMAGEX_USE_UTF8 and the flag
+ WIMLIB_INIT_FLAG_ASSUME_UTF8 no longer have any effect.
+
+ wimlib no longer depends on iconv.
+
+ Reduced memory usage slightly.
+
+ When a WIM image is applied in NTFS-3G mode, security descriptors are
+ now created in NTFS v3.0 format when supported by the volume.
+
+ Workarounds for bugs in libntfs-3g version 2013.1.13 and earlier have
+ been removed. Users are advised to upgrade to a later version of
+ libntfs-3g.
+
+ On Windows, wimlib now supports case-sensitive filename extraction when
+ supported by the underlying operating system and filesystem (operating
+ system support requires a registry setting).
+
+Version 1.9.2:
+ On UNIX, wimlib can now overwrite readonly files when extracting.
+
+ On Windows, fixed a bug where wimlib could leave a null DACL (a.k.a. "no
+ NTFS permissions") set on some existing directories after extraction.
+
+ On Windows, when applying a WIM image in "WIMBoot mode" when the WOF
+ driver is not loaded, wimlib can now correctly register a new WIM file
+ with the target volume when the target volume previously had had WIM
+ files unregistered.
+
+ Added a new testing program.
+
+ Clarified the main license text and updated public domain dedications
+ for certain files to be more thorough.
+
+Version 1.9.1:
+ Object IDs are now saved and restored on Windows and in NTFS-3G mode.
+
+ Reduced memory usage when exporting large numbers of WIM images.
+
+ Non UTF-8 locales are now detected correctly.
+
+ Addressed compiler warnings and enabled "silent" make rules by default.
+
+ Windows-specific updates:
+ Fixed a bug where duplicate backslashes could be generated in
+ link targets when extracting symbolic links and junctions.
+
+ Fixed a bug where the .cmd shortcuts for wimlib-imagex wouldn't
+ work if their full path contained a space.
+
+ Fixed bugs related to scanning SMB filesystems.
+
+ Added warning message about known issue with WindowsApps folder.
+
+ Added instructions for building from source on Windows.
+
+ VSS support is no longer marked "experimental".
+
+ Added missing license file for libdivsufsort-lite.
+
+Version 1.9.0:
+ Added experimental support for Windows VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service).
+ The new '--snapshot' argument to 'wimcapture' makes wimlib automatically
+ create and use a temporary VSS snapshot when capturing a WIM image.
+
+ Implemented setting of Windows-specific XML information, such as
+ architecture, system root, and version details. This information is now
+ automatically set in newly captured WIM images, when appropriate.
+
+ Improved performance of directory tree scans on Windows.
+
+ On Windows, to improve capture performance, wimlib now sometimes opens
+ files by inode number rather than by path. This is enabled for
+ wimcapture and wimappend, but for now other applications have to opt-in.
+
+ The progress messages printed by wimlib-imagex while writing WIM files
+ have been slightly tweaked.
+
+ Progress information for directory tree scans now counts all hard links.
+ Also, on Windows "\\?\" is no longer stripped from the current path.
+
+ Added a new '--image-property' option to 'wimcapture', 'wimappend', and
+ 'wiminfo'. This option lets you assign values to elements in a WIM
+ file's XML document by name.
+
+ The wimlib_get_image_property() and wimlib_set_image_property() API
+ functions now support numerically indexed elements.
+
+ Fixed a bug where, on Windows, wimlib would change the security
+ descriptor of the target directory of an extraction even when the
+ '--no-acls' option was specified.
+
+Version 1.8.3:
+ Fixed a bug with libntfs-3g extraction present since v1.8.1. Sometimes,
+ some Microsoft software would not correctly recognize data in the
+ resulting filesystem.
+
+ Made some small improvements to the compression algorithms:
+ LZX compression ratio was slightly improved.
+ XPRESS compression ratio and speed was slightly improved.
+ LZMS compression speed was slightly improved.
+
+ Improved handling of WIM XML data. wimlib no longer drops unrecognized
+ elements when exporting images. In addition, two API functions were
+ added for better access to elements in the XML document:
+ wimlib_get_image_property() and wimlib_set_image_property().
+
+ Added support for (unsafe) in-place compaction of WIM files.
+
+ Improved performance of image export by reusing metadata resources
+ instead of always rebuilding and recompressing them.
+
+ Improved performance of wimlib_update_image() by delaying the update to
+ the WIM's XML document until a write is requested.
+
+ On Windows, the target of an extraction may now be a reparse point
+ (which will be dereferenced).
+
+ On Windows, wimlib now correctly restores non-Microsoft reparse points.
+ However, this remains broken in NTFS-3g mode due to a libntfs-3g bug.
+
+ On Windows, wimlib now has improved performance when archiving files
+ from a filesystem backed by a WIM (a "WIMBoot" setup).
+
+ Several improvements to System Compression (compact mode) support:
+
+ wof.sys (or wofadk.sys) is now automatically attached to the
+ target volume if needed.
+
+ Compact-mode extractions now work correctly with wofadk.sys on
+ older versions of Windows.
+
+ For compatibility with the Windows bootloader, the requested
+ compression format now is overridden on certain files.
+
+ Other minor bugfixes.
+
+Version 1.8.2:
+ This release primarily contains various minor bug fixes and
+ improvements, including:
+
+ Improved handling of deep directory structures.
+
+ Fixed a bug where on 32-bit systems, the library could enter an
+ infinite loop if a WIM file was malformed in a specific way.
+
+ Added a workaround for a case where libntfs-3g may report
+ duplicate streams in an NTFS file.
+
+ Windows symbolic links and junctions in mounted WIM images are
+ now automatically rewritten to be valid in the mounted location.
+
+ Reparse point fixes: correctly handle the "ReparseReserved"
+ field, and correctly handle "empty" (data-less) reparse points.
+
+ On Windows, wimlib now acquires SeManageVolumePrivilege, which
+ is needed to create externally backed files using the
+ "wofadk.sys" driver.
+
+ Improved validation of filenames.
+
+ Improved LZMS decompression speed.
+
+ The configure script now honors alternate pkg-config settings.
+
+ Links have been updated to point to the new website.
+
+ In addition, experimental support has been added for compressing
+ extracted files using System Compression on Windows 10. This
+ functionality is available through the new '--compact' option to
+ 'wimapply' and 'wimextract' as well as new library flags.
+
+Version 1.8.1:
+ Fixed a bug in the LZX decompressor: malicious input data could cause
+ out of bounds writes to memory (since wimlib v1.2.2).
+
+ The output of the 'wiminfo' command now consolidates various boolean
+ flags (such as "Relative path junction") into a single line.
+
+ A file can now have both an unnamed data stream ("file contents") and a
+ reparse point stream. Such files can exist as a result of the use of
+ certain Windows features, such as offline storage, including "OneDrive".
+ wimlib will now store and restore both streams on Windows as well as in
+ NTFS-3g mode. Microsoft's WIMGAPI also has this behavior.
+
+ On Windows, named data streams of encrypted files are no longer stored
+ twice in WIM archives.
+
+ On Windows, named data streams are now correctly extracted to existing
+ "readonly" directories. Before, an error would be reported.
+
+ On Windows, it is now possible to do a "WIMBoot mode" extraction with
+ non-standalone WIMs such as delta WIMs.
+
+ On Windows, when doing an extraction in "WIMBoot mode", files larger
+ than 4 gigabytes are now never extracted as externally backed. This
+ works around a bug in Microsoft's "WOF" driver.
+
+ The '--enable-verify-compression' configure option has been removed. If
+ you want to verify a WIM file, use the 'wimverify' program.
+
+ The way the "file count", "directory count", "total bytes", and "hard
+ link bytes" image statistics (stored in the WIM XML data) is calculated
+ has been slightly changed.
+
+ In mounted WIM images, the disk usage provided for each file (st_blocks)
+ is now the compressed size rather than the uncompressed size.
+
+ The performance of the NTFS-3g and Windows capture modes has been
+ slightly improved.
+
+ On UNIX-like systems, symbolic links whose targets contain the backslash
+ character are now handled correctly (losslessly).
+
+Version 1.8.0:
+ Improved the LZX compressor. It is now 15-20% faster than before and
+ provides a slightly better compression ratio.
+
+ Improved the LZMS compressor. It now provides a compression ratio
+ slightly better than WIMGAPI while still being faster and using slightly
+ less memory.
+
+ The compression chunk size in solid resources, e.g. when capturing or
+ exporting a WIM file using the '--solid' option, now defaults to 64 MiB
+ (67108864 bytes) instead of 32 MiB (33554432 bytes). This provides a
+ better compression ratio and is the same value that WIMGAPI uses. The
+ memory usage is less than 50% higher than wimlib v1.7.4 and is slightly
+ lower than WIMGAPI's memory usage, but if it is too much, it is still
+ possible to choose a lower value, e.g. with the '--solid-chunk-size'
+ option to wimlib-imagex.
+
+ The '--chunk-size' and '--solid-chunk-size' options to wimlib-imagex now
+ accept the 'K', 'M', and 'G' suffixes.
+
+ Files are now sorted by name extension when creating a solid WIM file.
+
+ Fixed various issues related to capture/apply of EFS-encrypted files on
+ Windows.
+
+ The file list printed by 'wimdir' is now sorted by the platform-specific
+ case sensitivity setting, rather than always case sensitively. This
+ also affects the library function wimlib_iterate_dir_tree().
+
+ On Windows, some error and warning messages have been improved.
+
+Version 1.7.4:
+ The Windows binary distribution no longer contains third party DLLs.
+ These dependencies are instead compiled directly into the libwim DLL.
+
+ Added more fixes for wimlib on non-x86 architectures such as ARM.
+
+ Extracting files to a Windows PE in-memory filesystem no longer fails if
+ the target files do not yet exist.
+
+ Improved the performance of XPRESS compression and LZMS decompression.
+
+ Enabled SSSE3 accelerated SHA-1 computation in x86_64 Windows builds.
+ It will automatically be faster on newer Intel and AMD processors.
+
+ Removed the --with-imagex-progname and --enable-more-assertions
+ configure options.
+
+Version 1.7.3:
+ Fix for very slow export from solid WIM / ESD files.
+
+ 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.
+
+ 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.
+
+ 'add' commands passed to wimupdate will now replace existing
+ nondirectory files by default. Use the --no-replace option to get the
+ old behavior.
+
+ The license for the library now contains an exception that allows using
+ it under the LGPL. See the COPYING file for details.
+
+ 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.
+
+ On UNIX-like systems, you can now backup and restore device nodes, named
+ pipes, and sockets. In addition, 32-bit user and group IDs are now
+ supported.
+
+ The way that UNIX data is stored in WIM files 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-imagex v1.6.2, then
+ re-capture them with --unix-data using this version.
+
+ wimlib now understands tagged metadata items, such as object IDs, that
+ can be stored in WIM directory entries.
+
+ 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 <ARCH> element in WIM XML data is now 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
+ support. Use --without-fuse to disable support for mounting WIM images;
+ this will also disable the need for extended attribute support.
+
+ Configuring with --enable-ssse3-sha1 now works correctly.
+
+ 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
+ WIMGAPI).
+
+ - User-provided progress functions are now registered using a
+ separate function, wimlib_register_progress_function(). The
+ 'progress_func' argument to many functions no longer exists.
+
+ - The return value from user-provided progress functions is now
+ significant.
+
+ - A context argument has been added to the prototype of
+ user-provided progress functions.
+
+ - 'struct wimlib_capture_config' has been removed. The library
+ now takes the path to the configuration file directly. This
+ affects wimlib_add_image(), wimlib_add_image_multisource(),
+ and wimlib_update_image(). However, a NULL value passed in
+ the argument retains the same meaning.
+
+ - 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, WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_FILE_ORDER,
+ and WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_SEQUENTIAL.
+
+ - Removed some progress messages:
+ WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_APPLY_TIMESTAMPS,
+ WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_DIR_STRUCTURE_BEGIN,
+ 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.
+
+Version 1.6.2:
+ Case-insensitive comparisons of strings (e.g. filenames) containing
+ UTF-16 codepoints above 32767 are now done correctly.
+
+ Fixed build failure on Mac OS X.
+
+ wimunmount now provides the '--new-image' option to cause changes to a
+ read-write mounted image to be committed as a new image rather than as
+ an update of the mounted image. (The corresponding new library flag is
+ WIMLIB_UNMOUNT_FLAG_NEW_IMAGE.)
+
+ The LZMS ("recovery") compression chunk size, or "dictionary size", may
+ now be up to 1 GiB (1,073,741,824 bytes).
+
+ The performance of LZX ("maximum") and LZMS ("recovery") compression
+ with large chunk sizes has been slightly improved.
+
+Version 1.6.1:
+ Stored files with size exactly 4 GiB (4,294,967,296 bytes) are now
+ decompressed correctly.
+
+ Fixed a bug in the LZX compressor introduced in v1.5.3. The bug
+ occurred in an unlikely case, and due to validity checks it did not
+ affect successfully created archives.
+
+ Fixed a minor compatibility issue with the LZMS compressor and
+ decompressor. This is *not* the default compression type and was only
+ introduced in v1.6.0. In the unlikely event that you created an
+ LZMS-compressed WIM with v1.6.0 and a checksum error is reported when
+ applying it with v1.6.1, decompress it with v1.6.0 then compress it with
+ v1.6.1.
+
+ Memory usage for LZMS and LZX compression has been decreased.
+
+ wimextract now allows wildcard characters in paths specified on the
+ command line. Also, the '--strict-wildcards' option has been removed
+ and replaced with the inverse option '--nullglob'. See the
+ documentation for wimextract for more details and changes.
+
+ The wimlib_extract_files() function is now considered deprecated in
+ favor of wimlib_extract_paths().
+
+ Fixed more permissions problems when extracting files on Windows.
+
+ A new '--no-attributes' option has been added to wimapply and
+ wimextract. The library flag is WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_NO_ATTRIBUTES.
+
+ The default chunk size is now set correctly when changing the
+ compression type of a WIM, for example with 'wimoptimize'.
+
+ The '--metadata' option to wiminfo has been replaced with the
+ '--detailed' option to wimdir.
+
+ In relevant wimlib-imagex commands, '--solid' may now be used as an
+ alias for '--pack-streams'.
+
+Version 1.6.0:
+ Support for extracting and updating the new version 3584 WIMs has been
+ added. These WIMs typically pack many streams ("files") together into a
+ single compressed resource, thereby saving space. This degrades the
+ performance of random access (such as that which occurs on a mounted
+ 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 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 `wimextract', the syntax is to specify @LISTFILE instead of a PATH,
+ and for the library itself, the new APIs are wimlib_extract_pathlist()
+ and wimlib_extract_paths(). Path globs containing wildcard characters
+ are supported.
+
+ 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 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,
+ respectively.
+
+ Support for compression chunk sizes greater than the default of 32768
+ bytes has been added. A larger chunk size typically results in a better
+ compression ratio. However, the MS implementation is seemingly not
+ compatible with all chunk sizes, especially for LZX compression, so the
+ defaults remain unchanged, with the exception of the new LZMS-compressed
+ WIMs, which use a larger chunk size by default.
+
+ The compression/decompression API exported by wimlib has been changed.
+ 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
+ data to the WIM. The '--verbose' option no longer does anything. The
+ library API change for this is the addition of several members to
+ `struct wimlib_progress_info_scan' available to progress callbacks.
+
+ `mkwinpeimg' now correctly handles the '--start-script' option when the
+ start script is not in the working directory.
+
+ 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 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
+ enabled by default, except when `wimcapture' or `wimappend' is run
+ *without* the '--compress' option, in which case the faster LZX
+ compressor is used (the same as before). This behavior is reasonably
+ consistent with ImageX which actually uses "fast" (XPRESS) compression
+ by default. In those cases, use '--compress=maximum' to explicitly
+ capture a WIM image using the new (slower but better) LZX compressor.
+
+ The '--compress-slow' option still exists to `wimlib-imagex optimize',
+ but its new behavior is to tweak the new LZX compressor even more to
+ produce an even better compression ratio at the cost of more time spent
+ compressing.
+
+ `wimlib-imagex optimize' now supports the '--compress=TYPE' option,
+ which recompresses the WIM file using the specified compression TYPE.
+ The new library API function used for this is
+ wimlib_set_output_compression_type().
+
+ Added the wimlib_get_xml_data() function to allow library clients to
+ easily retrieve the raw XML data from a WIM file if needed.
+
+ Fixed a bug that could cause an error code to be incorrectly returned
+ when writing XML data containing a <WINDOWS> element.
+
+ Mounted WIM images will now correctly show the default file stream even
+ if appears in the alternate data stream entries of the corresponding WIM
+ directory entry.
Version 1.5.2:
Added a new experimental LZX compressor which can be enabled by passing
more --- currently usually to within a fraction of a percent of the
results from WIMGAPI/ImageX.
+ A workaround has been added for compatibility with versions of WinPE
+ that interpret alternate data stream entries in the boot WIM
+ incorrectly.
+
An alignment bug that caused a crash in the LZX decompressor on some
builds was fixed.
the WIM header when restoring the previous state of a WIM it failed to
successfully update.
- A workaround has been added for compatibility with versions of WinPE
- that interpret alternate data stream entries in the boot WIM
- incorrectly.
+ Added a workaround to avoid an access denied error on Windows when
+ replacing a WIM file that another process has opened.
Version 1.5.1:
wimlib can now open WinPE WIMs from WAIK v2.1, which had a quirk that