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-Version 1.9.0-BETA:
+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.
        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.


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        architecture, system root, and version details.  This information is now
        automatically set in newly captured WIM images, when appropriate.
 
        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.
 
        Progress information for directory tree scans now counts all hard links.
 
        The progress messages printed by wimlib-imagex while writing WIM files
        have been slightly tweaked.
 
        Progress information for directory tree scans now counts all hard links.

+       Also, on Windows "\\?\" is no longer stripped from the current path.

 
        Added a new '--image-property' option to 'wimcapture', 'wimappend', and
        'wiminfo'.  This option lets you assign values to elements in a WIM
 
        Added a new '--image-property' option to 'wimcapture', 'wimappend', and
        'wiminfo'.  This option lets you assign values to elements in a WIM