# Introduction
-This is wimlib version 1.14.0-BETA2 (March 2023). wimlib is a C library for
+This is wimlib version 1.14.0-BETA3 (April 2023). 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,
files and provides features previously only available in Microsoft's
implementation, such as the ability to mount WIMs read-write as well as
read-only, the ability to create compressed WIMs, the correct handling of
- security descriptors and hard links, support for LZMS compression, and support
- for solid archives.
+ security descriptors and hard links, and support for LZMS compression.
- [`ImagePyX`](https://github.com/maxpat78/ImagePyX) is a Python program that
provides some capabilities of `wimlib-imagex`, with the help of external