X-Git-Url: https://wimlib.net/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=a242e7f6f0ec8285a1e02d420ba1ee28dd2f650f;hb=e3fa4970e13d2830093f9b23881c2908ca40135c;hp=ed7ee1e0e4a55dd802acef4ccfab54aed15c7d40;hpb=09e9bf4f6dfc6a196aa2c85f85b7da81e6bd70f7;p=wimlib diff --git a/README b/README index ed7ee1e0..a242e7f6 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ INTRODUCTION -This is wimlib version 1.6.1 (January 2014). wimlib is a C library for +This is wimlib version 1.7.0-BETA (May 2014). wimlib is a C library for creating, modifying, extracting, and mounting files in the Windows Imaging Format (WIM files). These files are normally created using the ImageX (imagex.exe) or Dism (Dism.exe) utilities on Windows, but wimlib is distributed @@ -36,6 +36,10 @@ images. A WIM file may be either stand-alone or split into multiple parts. Split WIMs are read-only and cannot be modified. +Since version 1.6.0, wimlib also supports ESD (.esd) files, except when +encrypted. These are still WIM files but they use a newer version of the file +format. + IMAGEX IMPLEMENTATION wimlib itself is a C library, and it provides a documented public API (See: @@ -65,7 +69,7 @@ wimlib (and wimlib-imagex) can create XPRESS, LZX, or LZMS compressed WIM archives. wimlib includes its own compression codecs and does not use the compression API available on some versions of Windows. The below table provides the results (file size, in bytes, and time to create, in seconds) of capturing a -WIM containing a x86 Windows PE image, using various compression types and +WIM containing an x86 Windows PE image, using various compression types and options. When applicable, the results with the equivalent Microsoft implementation in WIMGAPI, which is the library used by ImageX and Dism, are included. @@ -178,7 +182,7 @@ platform-dependent way: For both platforms the code for NTFS capture and extraction is complete enough that it is possible to apply an image from the "install.wim" contained in recent -Windows installation media (Vista, Windows 7, or Windows 8) directly to a NTFS +Windows installation media (Vista, Windows 7, or Windows 8) directly to an NTFS filesystem, and then boot Windows from it after preparing the Boot Configuration Data. In addition, a Windows installation can be captured (or backed up) into a WIM file, and then re-applied later. @@ -276,12 +280,6 @@ This section documents the most important options that may be passed to the from libcrypto (part of OpenSSL). The default is to use libcrypto if it is found on the system. ---enable-xattr, --disable-xattr - Enable or disable support for the extended-attributes interface to NTFS - alternate data streams in mounted WIMs. To support these, wimlib - requires that the setxattr() function and the attr/xattr.h header are - available. The default is to autodetect whether support is possible. - --disable-multithreaded-compression By default, data will be compressed using multiple threads when writing a WIM, unless only 1 processor is detected. Specify this option to @@ -368,7 +366,8 @@ WIM, I recommend you take a look at SquashFS (http://squashfs.sourceforge.net/). LICENSE As of version 1.0.0, wimlib and all programs and scripts distributed with it are -released under the GNU GPL version 3.0 or later. +released under the GNU GPL version 3.0 or later. See COPYING for details. +Some individual source files are also released under more permissive licenses. 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.