X-Git-Url: https://wimlib.net/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=ba27b388c5418799dd9b204208d45953db202b98;hb=3b05052885168a50852b86609a89f29d1c0c6d97;hp=2aa7572c4875d9992dedc8006589922e8d8cad8e;hpb=254bde91444f3a8a8d6c305b78ebd9775a7077b8;p=wimlib diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2aa7572c..ba27b388 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,15 +1,58 @@ -Version 1.7.2-BETA: - Made another round of performance improvements to the XPRESS, LZX, and - LZMS compressors. +Version 1.7.3: + Fix for very slow export from solid WIM / ESD files. - 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. + Fix for LZX and LZMS algorithms on non-x86 architectures, such as ARM. - On Windows, wimlib will now attempt to enable short name generation on - the target volume if any files being extracted have short names. + New progress message: WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_HANDLE_ERROR. Applications + may use this to treat some types of errors as non-fatal. - No API changes, but a few documentation improvements. + 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.