INTRODUCTION
-This is wimlib version 1.9.2-BETA (April 2016). wimlib is a C library for
+This is wimlib version 1.10.0 (August 2016). wimlib is a C library for
creating, modifying, extracting, and mounting files in the Windows Imaging
Format (WIM files). wimlib and its command-line frontend 'wimlib-imagex'
provide a free and cross-platform alternative to Microsoft's WIMGAPI, ImageX,
automatically be loaded if you try to mount a WIM image. For more
information see http://fuse.sourceforge.net/.
-* libattr (optional but recommended)
- Unless configured --without-fuse, wimlib also requires libattr. Almost
- all Linux distributions should include this; however, you may need to
- install the header files, which might be in a package named "attr-dev",
- "libattr1-dev", or similar.
-
* libntfs-3g (optional but recommended)
Unless configured --without-ntfs-3g, wimlib requires the library and
- headers for libntfs-3g version 2011-4-12 or later to be installed.
+ headers for libntfs-3g to be installed. The minimum required version is
+ 2011-4-12, but newer versions contain important bug fixes.
* OpenSSL / libcrypto (optional)
wimlib can use the SHA-1 message digest implementation from libcrypto
--without-fuse
The --without-fuse option disables support for mounting WIM images.
- This removes dependencies on libfuse, librt, and libattr. The wimmount,
+ This removes dependencies on libfuse and librt. The wimmount,
wimmountrw, and wimunmount commands will not work.
The default is --with-fuse when building for Linux, and --without-fuse
Windows support has been available since version 1.3.0 (March 2013). A list of
version-to-version changes can be found in the NEWS file.
- LICENSE AND DISCLAIMER
+ NOTICES
+
+wimlib is free software that comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by
+law. See the COPYING file for more details.
-See COPYING for information about the license.
+Bug reports, suggestions, and other contributions are appreciated and may be
+sent via email to ebiggers3@gmail.com or posted to https://wimlib.net/forums.
wimlib is independently developed and does not contain any code, data, or files
copyrighted by Microsoft. It is not known to be affected by any patents.
implementation with built-in code and there will be no difference in
functionality.
-wimlib comes with no warranty whatsoever. Please submit a bug report (to
-ebiggers3@gmail.com) if you find a bug in wimlib and/or wimlib-imagex.
+Note: copyright years may be listed using range notation, e.g., 2012-2016,
+indicating that every year in the range, inclusive, is a copyrightable year that
+would otherwise be listed individually.