X-Git-Url: https://wimlib.net/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=NEWS;h=eba7f4adab7aad3881fb7c78a9a94677cf828bda;hb=fd49c16d9dc87317408bc43b9fdc84bd5a0171f8;hp=c9e05d314e5be4acd297aad711148d627c412370;hpb=1c142989478a3e670fbb6953d98adfa988441e5b;p=wimlib diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index c9e05d31..eba7f4ad 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,23 @@ -Version 1.9.0-BETA: +Version 1.9.1-BETA: + Reduced memory usage when exporting large numbers of WIM images. + + Made some minor build-related updates. Notably, enabled "silent" make + rules; this makes the output cleaner when building from source. + + Some minor Windows-specific updates: + Fixed a bug where duplicate backslashes could be generated in + link targets when extracting symbolic links and junctions. + + Added instructions for building from source on Windows. + + VSS support is no longer marked "experimental". + + wimlib now issues an appropriate error message if a known + problem with the WindowsApps directory is encountered. + + wimlib now automatically retries some read requests. + +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. @@ -7,8 +26,11 @@ Version 1.9.0-BETA: architecture, system root, and version details. This information is now automatically set in newly captured WIM images, when appropriate. - Significantly improved performance of directory scans of full NTFS - volumes on Windows 8 and later. + 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.