2 Updated 'mkwinpeimg' to work correctly on images that have a "windows"
3 (lower case) directory rather than a "Windows" (upper case) directory.
5 Sparse files are now extracted as sparse.
7 On Windows, improved the way in which files deduplicated with Windows'
8 Data Deduplication feature are captured.
10 Fixed configuring with --enable-ssse3-sha1 from release tarball
11 (the file nasm_lt.sh was missing).
13 The development files needed to link with wimlib using Visual Studio are
14 now included in the Windows release archives.
16 wimlib.h can now be included by Visual Studio without errors.
18 The example programs can now be compiled in C++ mode, and they also now
22 The LZX compression ratio has been slightly improved. The default mode,
23 LZX level 50, is now almost as good as the old LZX level 100, while
24 being nearly the same speed as before.
26 Decompression performance has been slightly improved.
28 Filenames are now always listed in NTFS collation order.
30 On UNIX-like systems, wimlib can now process Windows filenames that are
31 not valid Unicode due to the presence of unpaired surrogates.
33 On UNIX-like systems, wimlib now always assumes UTF-8 encoding with the
34 addition of surrogate codepoints. Consequently, the environmental
35 variable WIMLIB_IMAGEX_USE_UTF8 and the flag
36 WIMLIB_INIT_FLAG_ASSUME_UTF8 no longer have any effect.
38 wimlib no longer depends on iconv.
40 Reduced memory usage slightly.
42 When a WIM image is applied in NTFS-3G mode, security descriptors are
43 now created in NTFS v3.0 format when supported by the volume.
45 Workarounds for bugs in libntfs-3g version 2013.1.13 and earlier have
46 been removed. Users are advised to upgrade to a later version of
49 On Windows, wimlib now supports case-sensitive filename extraction when
50 supported by the underlying operating system and filesystem (operating
51 system support requires a registry setting).
54 On UNIX, wimlib can now overwrite readonly files when extracting.
56 On Windows, fixed a bug where wimlib could leave a null DACL (a.k.a. "no
57 NTFS permissions") set on some existing directories after extraction.
59 On Windows, when applying a WIM image in "WIMBoot mode" when the WOF
60 driver is not loaded, wimlib can now correctly register a new WIM file
61 with the target volume when the target volume previously had had WIM
64 Added a new testing program.
66 Clarified the main license text and updated public domain dedications
67 for certain files to be more thorough.
70 Object IDs are now saved and restored on Windows and in NTFS-3G mode.
72 Reduced memory usage when exporting large numbers of WIM images.
74 Non UTF-8 locales are now detected correctly.
76 Addressed compiler warnings and enabled "silent" make rules by default.
78 Windows-specific updates:
79 Fixed a bug where duplicate backslashes could be generated in
80 link targets when extracting symbolic links and junctions.
82 Fixed a bug where the .cmd shortcuts for wimlib-imagex wouldn't
83 work if their full path contained a space.
85 Fixed bugs related to scanning SMB filesystems.
87 Added warning message about known issue with WindowsApps folder.
89 Added instructions for building from source on Windows.
91 VSS support is no longer marked "experimental".
93 Added missing license file for libdivsufsort-lite.
96 Added experimental support for Windows VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service).
97 The new '--snapshot' argument to 'wimcapture' makes wimlib automatically
98 create and use a temporary VSS snapshot when capturing a WIM image.
100 Implemented setting of Windows-specific XML information, such as
101 architecture, system root, and version details. This information is now
102 automatically set in newly captured WIM images, when appropriate.
104 Improved performance of directory tree scans on Windows.
106 On Windows, to improve capture performance, wimlib now sometimes opens
107 files by inode number rather than by path. This is enabled for
108 wimcapture and wimappend, but for now other applications have to opt-in.
110 The progress messages printed by wimlib-imagex while writing WIM files
111 have been slightly tweaked.
113 Progress information for directory tree scans now counts all hard links.
114 Also, on Windows "\\?\" is no longer stripped from the current path.
116 Added a new '--image-property' option to 'wimcapture', 'wimappend', and
117 'wiminfo'. This option lets you assign values to elements in a WIM
118 file's XML document by name.
120 The wimlib_get_image_property() and wimlib_set_image_property() API
121 functions now support numerically indexed elements.
123 Fixed a bug where, on Windows, wimlib would change the security
124 descriptor of the target directory of an extraction even when the
125 '--no-acls' option was specified.
128 Fixed a bug with libntfs-3g extraction present since v1.8.1. Sometimes,
129 some Microsoft software would not correctly recognize data in the
130 resulting filesystem.
132 Made some small improvements to the compression algorithms:
133 LZX compression ratio was slightly improved.
134 XPRESS compression ratio and speed was slightly improved.
135 LZMS compression speed was slightly improved.
137 Improved handling of WIM XML data. wimlib no longer drops unrecognized
138 elements when exporting images. In addition, two API functions were
139 added for better access to elements in the XML document:
140 wimlib_get_image_property() and wimlib_set_image_property().
142 Added support for (unsafe) in-place compaction of WIM files.
144 Improved performance of image export by reusing metadata resources
145 instead of always rebuilding and recompressing them.
147 Improved performance of wimlib_update_image() by delaying the update to
148 the WIM's XML document until a write is requested.
150 On Windows, the target of an extraction may now be a reparse point
151 (which will be dereferenced).
153 On Windows, wimlib now correctly restores non-Microsoft reparse points.
154 However, this remains broken in NTFS-3g mode due to a libntfs-3g bug.
156 On Windows, wimlib now has improved performance when archiving files
157 from a filesystem backed by a WIM (a "WIMBoot" setup).
159 Several improvements to System Compression (compact mode) support:
161 wof.sys (or wofadk.sys) is now automatically attached to the
162 target volume if needed.
164 Compact-mode extractions now work correctly with wofadk.sys on
165 older versions of Windows.
167 For compatibility with the Windows bootloader, the requested
168 compression format now is overridden on certain files.
170 Other minor bugfixes.
173 This release primarily contains various minor bug fixes and
174 improvements, including:
176 Improved handling of deep directory structures.
178 Fixed a bug where on 32-bit systems, the library could enter an
179 infinite loop if a WIM file was malformed in a specific way.
181 Added a workaround for a case where libntfs-3g may report
182 duplicate streams in an NTFS file.
184 Windows symbolic links and junctions in mounted WIM images are
185 now automatically rewritten to be valid in the mounted location.
187 Reparse point fixes: correctly handle the "ReparseReserved"
188 field, and correctly handle "empty" (data-less) reparse points.
190 On Windows, wimlib now acquires SeManageVolumePrivilege, which
191 is needed to create externally backed files using the
194 Improved validation of filenames.
196 Improved LZMS decompression speed.
198 The configure script now honors alternate pkg-config settings.
200 Links have been updated to point to the new website.
202 In addition, experimental support has been added for compressing
203 extracted files using System Compression on Windows 10. This
204 functionality is available through the new '--compact' option to
205 'wimapply' and 'wimextract' as well as new library flags.
208 Fixed a bug in the LZX decompressor: malicious input data could cause
209 out of bounds writes to memory (since wimlib v1.2.2).
211 The output of the 'wiminfo' command now consolidates various boolean
212 flags (such as "Relative path junction") into a single line.
214 A file can now have both an unnamed data stream ("file contents") and a
215 reparse point stream. Such files can exist as a result of the use of
216 certain Windows features, such as offline storage, including "OneDrive".
217 wimlib will now store and restore both streams on Windows as well as in
218 NTFS-3g mode. Microsoft's WIMGAPI also has this behavior.
220 On Windows, named data streams of encrypted files are no longer stored
221 twice in WIM archives.
223 On Windows, named data streams are now correctly extracted to existing
224 "readonly" directories. Before, an error would be reported.
226 On Windows, it is now possible to do a "WIMBoot mode" extraction with
227 non-standalone WIMs such as delta WIMs.
229 On Windows, when doing an extraction in "WIMBoot mode", files larger
230 than 4 gigabytes are now never extracted as externally backed. This
231 works around a bug in Microsoft's "WOF" driver.
233 The '--enable-verify-compression' configure option has been removed. If
234 you want to verify a WIM file, use the 'wimverify' program.
236 The way the "file count", "directory count", "total bytes", and "hard
237 link bytes" image statistics (stored in the WIM XML data) is calculated
238 has been slightly changed.
240 In mounted WIM images, the disk usage provided for each file (st_blocks)
241 is now the compressed size rather than the uncompressed size.
243 The performance of the NTFS-3g and Windows capture modes has been
246 On UNIX-like systems, symbolic links whose targets contain the backslash
247 character are now handled correctly (losslessly).
250 Improved the LZX compressor. It is now 15-20% faster than before and
251 provides a slightly better compression ratio.
253 Improved the LZMS compressor. It now provides a compression ratio
254 slightly better than WIMGAPI while still being faster and using slightly
257 The compression chunk size in solid resources, e.g. when capturing or
258 exporting a WIM file using the '--solid' option, now defaults to 64 MiB
259 (67108864 bytes) instead of 32 MiB (33554432 bytes). This provides a
260 better compression ratio and is the same value that WIMGAPI uses. The
261 memory usage is less than 50% higher than wimlib v1.7.4 and is slightly
262 lower than WIMGAPI's memory usage, but if it is too much, it is still
263 possible to choose a lower value, e.g. with the '--solid-chunk-size'
264 option to wimlib-imagex.
266 The '--chunk-size' and '--solid-chunk-size' options to wimlib-imagex now
267 accept the 'K', 'M', and 'G' suffixes.
269 Files are now sorted by name extension when creating a solid WIM file.
271 Fixed various issues related to capture/apply of EFS-encrypted files on
274 The file list printed by 'wimdir' is now sorted by the platform-specific
275 case sensitivity setting, rather than always case sensitively. This
276 also affects the library function wimlib_iterate_dir_tree().
278 On Windows, some error and warning messages have been improved.
281 The Windows binary distribution no longer contains third party DLLs.
282 These dependencies are instead compiled directly into the libwim DLL.
284 Added more fixes for wimlib on non-x86 architectures such as ARM.
286 Extracting files to a Windows PE in-memory filesystem no longer fails if
287 the target files do not yet exist.
289 Improved the performance of XPRESS compression and LZMS decompression.
291 Enabled SSSE3 accelerated SHA-1 computation in x86_64 Windows builds.
292 It will automatically be faster on newer Intel and AMD processors.
294 Removed the --with-imagex-progname and --enable-more-assertions
298 Fix for very slow export from solid WIM / ESD files.
300 Fix for LZX and LZMS algorithms on non-x86 architectures, such as ARM.
302 New progress message: WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_HANDLE_ERROR. Applications
303 may use this to treat some types of errors as non-fatal.
305 The library now permits making in-memory changes to a WIMStruct backed
306 by a read-only WIM file.
308 Fixes for "WIMBoot" extraction mode (Windows only):
310 When not using the WOF driver, extraction no longer fails if the
311 disk containing the WIM file has too many partitions.
313 When matching patterns in [PrepopulateList], all hard links of
314 each file are now considered.
316 The system registry files are now automatically treated as being
317 in [PrepopulateList].
319 Added a hack to try to work around an intermittent bug in
320 Microsoft's WOF (Windows Overlay Filesystem) driver.
323 Made more improvements to the XPRESS, LZX, and LZMS compressors.
325 A number of improvements to the Windows port:
327 Fixes for setting short filenames.
329 Faster "WIMBoot" extraction.
331 Updated and slimmed down the dependent DLLs.
333 ACL inheritence bits are now restored.
335 Mandatory integrity labels are now backed up and restored.
337 Added a workaround for an issue where in rare cases, wimlib could create
338 a compressed data stream that could not be read correctly by Windows
339 after an extraction in "WIMBoot" mode.
342 Added file count progress data for
343 WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_FILE_STRUCTURE and
344 WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_METADATA.
346 Added support for testing file exclusions via the user-provided
349 Some documentation improvements.
351 Made some clarifications to the license text in the COPYING file.
354 Made more improvements to the XPRESS, LZX, and LZMS compressors.
356 The default compression mode for wimcapture is now LZX compression in
357 its default mode, which is the same as '--compress=maximum'.
359 You can now specify an optional integer compression level to the
360 '--compress' option; e.g. '--compress=lzx:75'.
362 Made a minor change to the LZMS compressor and decompressor to fix an
363 incompatibility with the Microsoft implementation. In the unlikely
364 event that you created an LZMS-compressed WIM with wimlib v1.7.0 or
365 earlier and a checksum error is reported when extracting files from it
366 with wimlib v1.7.1, decompress it with v1.7.0 then compress it with
369 Added 'verify' subcommand to wimlib-imagex.
371 Notable library changes:
373 Custom compressor parameters have been removed from the library
374 in favor of the simpler level-based API.
376 Decompressor parameters have been removed entirely.
378 Library users can now specify a custom file for warning and
379 error messages to be sent to, rather than the default of
382 New progress messages:
383 WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_FILE_STRUCTURE,
384 WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_METADATA.
386 New function: wimlib_verify_wim().
389 Improved compression, decompression, and extraction performance.
391 Improved compatibility with version 3584 WIM / ESD files:
392 - Add support for reading and writing multiple solid blocks per
393 archive, which WIMGAPI/DISM can create when appending an image.
394 - Correctly create solid blocks larger than 4 GiB.
396 'add' commands passed to wimupdate will now replace existing
397 nondirectory files by default. Use the --no-replace option to get the
400 The license for the library now contains an exception that allows using
401 it under the LGPL. See the COPYING file for details.
403 In reparse-point fixup mode (the default for capture), symbolic links
404 and junctions that point outside the tree being captured are no longer
405 excluded from capture.
407 Added support for "WIMBoot" capture and extraction. See the
408 documentation for the new '--wimboot' option to wimcapture and wimapply
409 for more information.
411 On UNIX-like systems, you can now backup and restore device nodes, named
412 pipes, and sockets. In addition, 32-bit user and group IDs are now
415 The way that UNIX data is stored in WIM files has been changed. If you
416 captured any WIMs with the --unix-data option, to upgrade them you'll
417 need to apply them with --unix-data using wimlib-imagex v1.6.2, then
418 re-capture them with --unix-data using this version.
420 wimlib now understands tagged metadata items, such as object IDs, that
421 can be stored in WIM directory entries.
423 Removed the --hardlink and --symlink options to wimapply, since I don't
424 think they are too useful and they got in the way of improving the code.
426 WIMs will now retain their GUIDs when rebuilt (e.g. with wimoptimize).
428 The 'mkwinpeimg' script now supports writing the ISO image to standard
431 The <ARCH> element in WIM XML data is now exported correctly.
433 On Windows, sparse file attributes are no longer set on extracted files.
434 Oddly enough, this actually saves disk space in some cases.
436 On UNIX, configuring with --disable-xattr or --enable-xattr is no longer
437 supported. Mounting WIM images now always requires extended attribute
438 support. Use --without-fuse to disable support for mounting WIM images;
439 this will also disable the need for extended attribute support.
441 Configuring with --enable-ssse3-sha1 now works correctly.
443 The shared library version has been bumped up. The main
444 incompatibilities are:
446 - WIMLIB_COMPRESSION_TYPE_XPRESS is now 1 and
447 WIMLIB_COMPRESSION_TYPE_LZX is now 2 (so it's the same as
450 - User-provided progress functions are now registered using a
451 separate function, wimlib_register_progress_function(). The
452 'progress_func' argument to many functions no longer exists.
454 - The return value from user-provided progress functions is now
457 - A context argument has been added to the prototype of
458 user-provided progress functions.
460 - 'struct wimlib_capture_config' has been removed. The library
461 now takes the path to the configuration file directly. This
462 affects wimlib_add_image(), wimlib_add_image_multisource(),
463 and wimlib_update_image(). However, a NULL value passed in
464 the argument retains the same meaning.
466 - Removed deprecated functions: some (de)compression functions,
467 wimlib_extract_files(), and wimlib_print_metadata().
469 - Removed extraction flags: WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_HARDLINK,
470 WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_SYMLINK, WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_FILE_ORDER,
471 and WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_SEQUENTIAL.
473 - Removed some progress messages:
474 WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_APPLY_TIMESTAMPS,
475 WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_DIR_STRUCTURE_BEGIN,
476 WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_DIR_STRUCTURE_END. Numbering
479 - Removed some error codes. Numbering stays the same.
481 - Replaced WIMLIB_UNMOUNT_FLAG_LAZY with
482 WIMLIB_UNMOUNT_FLAG_FORCE.
484 - WIM paths passed to progress functions now have a leading
488 Case-insensitive comparisons of strings (e.g. filenames) containing
489 UTF-16 codepoints above 32767 are now done correctly.
491 Fixed build failure on Mac OS X.
493 wimunmount now provides the '--new-image' option to cause changes to a
494 read-write mounted image to be committed as a new image rather than as
495 an update of the mounted image. (The corresponding new library flag is
496 WIMLIB_UNMOUNT_FLAG_NEW_IMAGE.)
498 The LZMS ("recovery") compression chunk size, or "dictionary size", may
499 now be up to 1 GiB (1,073,741,824 bytes).
501 The performance of LZX ("maximum") and LZMS ("recovery") compression
502 with large chunk sizes has been slightly improved.
505 Stored files with size exactly 4 GiB (4,294,967,296 bytes) are now
506 decompressed correctly.
508 Fixed a bug in the LZX compressor introduced in v1.5.3. The bug
509 occurred in an unlikely case, and due to validity checks it did not
510 affect successfully created archives.
512 Fixed a minor compatibility issue with the LZMS compressor and
513 decompressor. This is *not* the default compression type and was only
514 introduced in v1.6.0. In the unlikely event that you created an
515 LZMS-compressed WIM with v1.6.0 and a checksum error is reported when
516 applying it with v1.6.1, decompress it with v1.6.0 then compress it with
519 Memory usage for LZMS and LZX compression has been decreased.
521 wimextract now allows wildcard characters in paths specified on the
522 command line. Also, the '--strict-wildcards' option has been removed
523 and replaced with the inverse option '--nullglob'. See the
524 documentation for wimextract for more details and changes.
526 The wimlib_extract_files() function is now considered deprecated in
527 favor of wimlib_extract_paths().
529 Fixed more permissions problems when extracting files on Windows.
531 A new '--no-attributes' option has been added to wimapply and
532 wimextract. The library flag is WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_NO_ATTRIBUTES.
534 The default chunk size is now set correctly when changing the
535 compression type of a WIM, for example with 'wimoptimize'.
537 The '--metadata' option to wiminfo has been replaced with the
538 '--detailed' option to wimdir.
540 In relevant wimlib-imagex commands, '--solid' may now be used as an
541 alias for '--pack-streams'.
544 Support for extracting and updating the new version 3584 WIMs has been
545 added. These WIMs typically pack many streams ("files") together into a
546 single compressed resource, thereby saving space. This degrades the
547 performance of random access (such as that which occurs on a mounted
548 image), but optimizations have been implemented for extraction. These
549 new WIM files also typically use a new compression format (LZMS), which
550 is similar to LZMA and can offer a better compression ratio than LZX.
551 These new WIM files can be created using `wimcapture' with
552 the '--compress=lzms --pack-streams' options. Note: this new WIM format
553 is used by the Windows 8 web downloader, but important segments of the
554 raw '.esd' files are encrypted, so wimlib will not be able to extract
555 such files until they are first decrypted.
557 wimlib now supports extracting files and directories from a WIM image
558 based on a "listfile" that itself contains the list of paths to extract.
559 For `wimextract', the syntax is to specify @LISTFILE instead of a PATH,
560 and for the library itself, the new APIs are wimlib_extract_pathlist()
561 and wimlib_extract_paths(). Path globs containing wildcard characters
564 For searching WIM files, wimlib now has configurable case sensitivity.
565 The default on Windows is still case-insensitive and the default on
566 UNIX-like systems is still case-sensitive, but this can be overridden
567 on either platform through flags to wimlib_global_init(). For
568 `wimlib-imagex', the environmental variable WIMLIB_IMAGEX_IGNORE_CASE
569 can be set to 1 or 0 for case-insensitive or case-sensitive behavior,
572 Support for compression chunk sizes greater than the default of 32768
573 bytes has been added. A larger chunk size typically results in a better
574 compression ratio. However, the MS implementation is seemingly not
575 compatible with all chunk sizes, especially for LZX compression, so the
576 defaults remain unchanged, with the exception of the new LZMS-compressed
577 WIMs, which use a larger chunk size by default.
579 The compression/decompression API exported by wimlib has been changed.
580 Now one set of functions handles all supported compression formats.
582 `wimcapture' and `wimappend' will now display the progress of scanning
583 the directory tree to capture, in addition to the progress of writing
584 data to the WIM. The '--verbose' option no longer does anything. The
585 library API change for this is the addition of several members to
586 `struct wimlib_progress_info_scan' available to progress callbacks.
588 `mkwinpeimg' now correctly handles the '--start-script' option when the
589 start script is not in the working directory.
591 Sequential extraction, previously requested by using
592 WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_SEQUENTIAL, is now the default.
593 WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_FILE_ORDER can be used to get the old default
594 behavior (extract in file order).
597 The new LZX compressor added in v1.5.2 has been improved and is now
598 enabled by default, except when `wimcapture' or `wimappend' is run
599 *without* the '--compress' option, in which case the faster LZX
600 compressor is used (the same as before). This behavior is reasonably
601 consistent with ImageX which actually uses "fast" (XPRESS) compression
602 by default. In those cases, use '--compress=maximum' to explicitly
603 capture a WIM image using the new (slower but better) LZX compressor.
605 The '--compress-slow' option still exists to `wimlib-imagex optimize',
606 but its new behavior is to tweak the new LZX compressor even more to
607 produce an even better compression ratio at the cost of more time spent
610 `wimlib-imagex optimize' now supports the '--compress=TYPE' option,
611 which recompresses the WIM file using the specified compression TYPE.
612 The new library API function used for this is
613 wimlib_set_output_compression_type().
615 Added the wimlib_get_xml_data() function to allow library clients to
616 easily retrieve the raw XML data from a WIM file if needed.
618 Fixed a bug that could cause an error code to be incorrectly returned
619 when writing XML data containing a <WINDOWS> element.
621 Mounted WIM images will now correctly show the default file stream even
622 if appears in the alternate data stream entries of the corresponding WIM
626 Added a new experimental LZX compressor which can be enabled by passing
627 '--compress-slow' to `wimlib-imagex capture' or `wimlib-imagex
628 optimize'. (The latter is only applicable if the WIM is already
629 LZX-compressed and the '--recompress' option is also given.) The
630 experimental compressor is much slower but compresses the data slightly
631 more --- currently usually to within a fraction of a percent of the
632 results from WIMGAPI/ImageX.
634 A workaround has been added for compatibility with versions of WinPE
635 that interpret alternate data stream entries in the boot WIM
638 An alignment bug that caused a crash in the LZX decompressor on some
641 wimlib now attempts to clear the WIM_HDR_FLAG_WRITE_IN_PROGRESS flag in
642 the WIM header when restoring the previous state of a WIM it failed to
645 Added a workaround to avoid an access denied error on Windows when
646 replacing a WIM file that another process has opened.
649 wimlib can now open WinPE WIMs from WAIK v2.1, which had a quirk that
650 needed to be handled.
652 A bug in the interpretation of negative IMAGE indices in the
653 --update-of=[WIMFILE:]IMAGE option to `wimlib-imagex capture' and
654 `wimlib-imagex append' has been fixed.
656 A workaround has been added to successfully apply security descriptors
657 with empty DACLs when the NTFS-3g apply mode is being used with NTFS-3g
658 2013.1.13 or earlier.
660 `wimlib-imagex capture' can now accept the '--delta-from' option
664 Added support for "pipable" WIMs. Pipable WIMs allow capturing images
665 to standard output and applying images from standard input, but they are
666 not compatible with Microsoft's software and are not created by default.
667 See the documentation for --pipable flag of `wimlib-imagex capture' for
670 To better support incremental backups, added support for declaring an
671 image as a modified form of another image. See the documentation for
672 the '--update-of' option of `wimlib-imagex append' and `wimlib-imagex
675 Added supported for "delta" WIMs. See the documentation for the
676 '--delta-from' option of `wimlib-imagex capture'.
678 The library support for managing split WIMs has been changed to support
679 other arrangements, such as delta WIMs, and be easier to use. This
680 change is visible in `wimlib-imagex', which also can now accept the
681 '--ref' option multiple times, and also now supports "delta" WIMs as
684 wimlib now preserves WIM integrity tables by default, even if
685 WIMLIB_WRITE_FLAG_CHECK_INTEGRITY is not specified. This changes the
686 behavior of `wimlib-imagex' whenever the WIM being operated on contains
687 an integrity table and the '--check' option is not specified.
689 `wimlib-imagex capture' now creates LZX-compressed WIMs by default
690 (when --compress is not specified). This provides the best compression
691 ratio by default, which is usually what is desired, at a cost of some
694 `wimlib-imagex' now supports being invoked as wimCOMMAND, where COMMAND
695 is the command as in `wimlib-imagex COMMAND'; for example, it can be
696 invoked as `wimapply' as an alternative to `wimlib-imagex apply'. The
697 appropriate hard links are created in UNIX installations of
698 `wimlib-imagex', while for the Windows distribution of `wimlib-imagex',
699 batch files that emulate this behavior are generated.
701 Security descriptors are now extracted correctly on Windows.
703 Fixed archiving DOS names in NTFS-3g capture mode.
705 The extraction code has been rewritten and it will now be easier to
706 support new features on all supported backends (currently Win32, UNIX,
707 and NTFS-3g). For example, hard-linked extraction mode (--hardlink) is
708 now supported on all backends, not just UNIX.
710 `mkwinpeimg' now supports grabbing files from the WAIK supplement rather
711 than the WAIK itself.
713 wimlib_global_init() now, by default, attempts to acquire additional
714 privileges on Windows, so library clients need not do this.
716 This update bumps the shared library version number up to 9, since it is
717 not binary compatibible with previous releases.
720 Fixed bug in `wimlib-imagex export' that made it impossible to export an
721 image from a WIM that is readonly at the filesystem level.
723 Return error code rather than segfaulting when trying to list files from
724 a non-first part of a split WIM.
726 Joining a WIM will now preserve the RP_FIX and READONLY flags.
729 On Windows, paths given to wimlib-imagex are now treated case
732 Improved behavior regarding invalid filenames; in particular, on
733 Windows, wimlib-imagex will, when extracting, now omit (with an option
734 to override this default) filenames differing only in case, or filenames
735 containing characters not valid on Windows.
737 On Windows, wimlib now supports capturing and extracting long paths
738 (longer than the so-called MAX_PATH).
740 On Windows, `wimlib-imagex update' now acquires proper privileges when
741 running as an Administrator.
743 `wimlib-imagex update' will now complain if no image is specified when
744 trying to update a multi-image WIM.
746 `wimlib-imagex update' now supports specifying a single update command
747 directly on the command line using the --command option.
749 wimlib-imagex will now choose different units for progress messages,
750 depending on the amount of data that needs to be processed.
752 `wimlib-imagex append' will now generate a unique WIM image name if no
753 name is specified and the defaulted name already exists in the WIM.
755 wimlib now allows you to create unnamed WIM images, which can then only
756 be referred to by index.
758 wimlib now allows you to explicitly declare you want write access to a
759 WIM by providing the WIMLIB_OPEN_FLAG_WRITE_ACCESS flag to
762 wimlib now respects the WIM_HDR_FLAG_READONLY flag when set in the WIM
765 Progress callbacks have been added to wimlib's wimlib_update_image()
768 Added wimlib_get_wim_info(), wimlib_set_wim_info(),
769 wimlib_iterate_dir_tree(), and wimlib_iterate_lookup_table() functions
772 NTFS-3g capture now only warns about two conditions previously treated
775 Fixed a couple issues with using wimlib-imagex on UDF filesystems on
778 wimlib now correctly detects and returns an error when reading a WIM
779 image with a cyclic directory structure. (Fun fact: such a WIM will
780 crash Microsoft's software.)
783 Added new "extract" and "update" subcommands to wimlib-imagex, along
784 with associated APIs in the library. These commands are intended mainly
785 for Windows use but can be used on UNIX as well.
787 Many documentation improvements.
789 Fixed a bug in the Windows build where relative symbolic links were not
790 captured in reparse-point fixup mode.
792 Fixed a bug in the Windows build where file handles were left open to
793 the WIM file, causing `wimlib_imagex optimize' to fail in some cases.
795 Fixed a bug in the Windows build of wimlib-imagex where globbing
796 split-WIM parts could cause the program to crash.
798 Fixed a bug where the creation time of WIM images would be shown instead
799 of the last modification time.
801 With the Windows build it is now possible to restore a WIM containing
802 symbolic links as a non-Administrator; however you will receive warnings
803 about not being able to extract the symbolic links.
806 Capturing a WIM image should now be significantly faster in most cases
807 due to improved use of the operating system's cache and avoiding reading
808 files twice whenever possible.
810 The Windows build should now work on Windows XP.
812 The Windows build now supports capturing and restoring hidden,
813 compressed, sparse, and encrypted files.
815 The Windows build now supports capturing and applying WIM images from
816 filesystems other than NTFS (with some reduced functionality).
818 The Windows build now extracts short names correctly.
820 Added support for "reparse-point" fixups (i.e. fixing up of symbolic
821 links). See docs for --rpfix and --norpfix flags of `wimlib-imagex
822 capture' and `wimlib-imagex apply'.
824 The performance of splitting and joining WIMs should be slightly
827 The LZX and XPRESS compression and decompression functions are now
828 exported from the library.
831 Improvements and bugfixes for the Windows build.
833 Added --strict-acls options.
835 Fixed the way that wimlib determines the order of images in the WIM.
838 Since wimlib can now be used on Windows, wimlib's implementation of
839 ImageX has been renamed to wimlib-imagex to avoid confusion with
840 Microsoft's implementation of ImageX, which would have the same file
841 name ("imagex.exe"). If you really don't like this you can pass the
842 --with-imagex-progname option to `configure' to choose a different name,
843 or even simply rename the binary yourself (but the former way will
844 configure the man pages to use the chosen name).
846 Various bugs fixed in the Windows build. Mainly to do with capturing
847 and restoring alternate data streams correctly in weird cases, and
848 requesting the correct privileges when opening files. Also added the
849 --noacls options to wimlib-imagex capture, append, and apply.
851 Windows build again: FindFirstStreamW() and FindNextStreamW() are now
852 dynamically loaded, so this may make the library compatible with Windows
853 XP (however, there may still be other problems).
856 Added experimental support for native Windows builds. Binaries can be
857 downloaded from the SourceForge page.
859 --source-list option added to `imagex capture' and `imagex append'.
861 Better support for different character encodings.
864 Storing UNIX file owners, groups, and modes in WIM images is now
865 possible using `imagex capture' with the --unix-data flag.
867 Minor bug fixes and documentation fixes.
870 NTFS capture: Fixed capturing duplicate reparse points.
872 NTFS capture: Capture first unnamed stream if there are more than one
873 (print warning instead of error).
875 Allow multiple test cases to execute concurrently (e.g. make -j2 check).
878 Added --arch switch to mkwinpeimg script to support getting AMD64 WinPE
881 Update to work with ntfs-3g version 2013.1.13.
884 Fixed truncating file to shorter but non-zero length on read-write
887 Various code cleanups and minor documentation fixes.
890 LZX and XPRESS decompression have received some additional optimizations
891 and should now be even faster. (Although, they were already pretty
892 fast--- much faster than typical I/O speeds.)
894 Fixed a bug introduced in v1.2.1 that would cause a directory tree
895 containing hard links to be captured incorrectly in some cases.
898 By default, unmounting a read-write mounted WIM with 'imagex unmount
899 --commit' will now change the WIM in-place without needing to write the
900 entire WIM again. Use 'imagex unmount --commit --rebuild' to get the
903 'imagex unmount' no longer has a hard-coded limit of 10 minutes to wait
904 for a response from the daemon servicing the mounted WIM. Instead,
905 every second 'imagex unmount' will check if the daemon is still alive,
906 and keep waiting if so, otherwise terminate with an error.
908 'imagex unmount --commit' on a read-write mounted WIM will now print
909 progress information regarding the writing of new or modified streams
910 the WIM, just like when capturing or appending a WIM.
912 A small change has been made to XPRESS compression and it should improve
913 the compression ratio slightly.
915 A change was made that may improve performance slightly when applying a
916 WIM image to a NTFS volume.
918 Microsoft has managed to introduce even more bugs into their software,
919 and now the WIMs for Windows 8 have incorrect (too low) reference counts
920 for some streams. This is unsafe because such streams can be removed
921 when they are in actuality still referenced in the WIM (perhaps by a
922 different image). wimlib will now work around this problem by fixing
923 the stream reference counts. This is only done when wimlib_delete_image() is
924 called ('imagex delete') or when wimlib_mount_image() is called with
925 WIMLIB_MOUNT_FLAG_READWRITE ('imagex mountrw'). Please note that this
926 requires reading the metadata for all images in the WIM, so this will
927 make these operations noticably slower on WIMs with multiple images.
929 Various other bugfixes.
932 Appending images to a WIM is now be done by default without re-building
933 the whole WIM. Use the --rebuild flag to get the old behavior (which
934 was to re-build the entire WIM when a new image is appended).
936 A new command `imagex optimize' is now available to manually re-build a
937 WIM that has wasted space due to repeated appends.
939 Progress information has been improved, and now arbitrary callback
940 functions can be used to show the progress of a WIM operation.
942 A possible bug with changing the bootable image of a WIM was fixed.
944 Some advisory locking is now done to prevent two processes from
945 modifying a WIM at the same time (but only in some cases). For example,
946 you cannot mount two images from a WIM read-write at the same time.
948 Some functions have been reorganized:
949 * wimlib_mount() renamed to wimlib_mount_image().
950 * wimlib_unmount() renamed to wimlib_unmount_image().
951 * wimlib_overwrite_xml_and_header() removed as
952 wimlib_overwrite() suffices now.
953 * wimlib_apply_image_to_ntfs_volume() removed as
954 wimlib_extract_image() suffices now.
955 * wimlib_add_image_from_ntfs_volume() removed as
956 * wimlib_add_image() suffices now.
958 Previously, the soname of libwim.so has been 0.0.0, despite many
959 interface changes. The soname is now updated to 1.0.0 and will now be
960 updated each release.
963 Resources will now be compressed using multiple threads by default.
964 (This applies to `imagex capture', `imagex append', and `imagex
967 Some performance improvements in mounted WIMs.
969 More progress information is shown when capturing a WIM.
972 Lots of minor fixes, code cleanups, and some documentation updates.
973 Nothing in particular is really noteworthy.
976 LZX and XPRESS compression improvements.
978 Fixed calculation of Directory Count, File Count, Total Bytes, and Hard
979 Link Bytes of the WIM.
982 Fixed bug when capturing NTFS file with multiple named data streams.
984 Internally, we are now using inode structures, even though these don't
985 appear literally in the WIM file. This simplifies some of the code
986 (mainly for WIM mounting) and likely fixed a few problems, although it
990 Fixed problem when exporting images from XPRESS to LZX compressed WIM or
994 Enough changes to call it version 1.0.0!
996 Capturing a WIM directly from a NTFS volume, and applying a WIM directly
997 to a NTFS volume, is now supported.
999 Hard links and symbolic links have much improved support. They are
1000 supported for WIM capture, WIM application, and mounted WIMs (you can
1001 even make them on read-write mounted WIMs).
1003 Alternate data streams are now supported on mounted WIMs through an
1004 xattr or a Windows-style stream interface. Also they are supported when
1005 capturing a WIM from NTFS or applying a WIM to NTFS.
1007 Split WIMs are better supported. You may now apply an image directly
1008 from a split WIM, mount an image from a split WIM read-only, or export
1009 an image from a split WIM.
1011 Using a capture configuration file is now supported (but not fully yet).
1013 SHA1 message digests are checked in more places, so we can make sure
1014 applied and captured data is correct.
1016 Man pages have been updated and consolidated.
1019 Fixed segfault when unmounting read-only WIM.
1022 Support for joining and splitting WIMs.
1023 Also, security data is now preserved by default.
1026 Can now build with older gcc and system headers, like on CentOS 5.
1029 Fixed bug that made it impossible to overwrite files in read-write
1033 Write byte-order mark before WIM XML data. (imagex.exe requires this to
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