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-Version 1.7.2-BETA:
-	Made another round of performance improvements to the XPRESS, LZX, and
-	LZMS compressors.
+Version 1.8.0-BETA:
+	Improved the LZX compressor.  It is now 15-20% faster than before and
+	provides a slightly better compression ratio.
 
-	On Windows, wimextract and its underlying library function
-	wimlib_extract_paths() will no longer fail if given a target directory
-	path ending in a slash.
+	Improved the LZMS compressor.  It now provides a compression ratio
+	slightly better than WIMGAPI while still being faster and using slightly
+	less memory.
 
-	On Windows, wimlib will now attempt to enable short name generation on
-	the target volume if any files being extracted have short names.
+	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.
 
-	No API changes, but a few documentation improvements.
+	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.