-Version 1.8.3-BETA:
+Version 1.11.0:
+ Fixed a data corruption bug (incorrect compression) when storing an
+ already highly-compressed file in an LZX-compressed WIM with a chunk
+ size greater than or equal to 64K. Note that this is not the default
+ setting and such WIMs are not supported by Microsoft's WIM software, so
+ only users who used the --chunk-size option to wimlib-imagex or the
+ wimlib_set_output_chunk_size() API function may have been affected.
+ This bug was introduced in wimlib v1.10.0. See
+ https://wimlib.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=300 for more details.
+
+ On all platforms, sparse files are now extracted as sparse.
+
+ Sparse files captured from UNIX-style filesystems are now marked as
+ sparse in the resulting WIM image.
+
+ Added support for storing Linux-style extended attributes in WIM images.
+ When the --unix-data option is used on Linux, wimlib-imagex now captures
+ and applies extended attributes, in addition to the already-supported
+ standard UNIX file permissions (owner/group/mode) and special files.
+
+ --delta-from is now supported by wimappend. (Previously it was only
+ supported by wimcapture.)
+
+ On Windows, improved the way in which files deduplicated with Windows'
+ Data Deduplication feature are captured.
+
+ The development files needed to link with wimlib using Visual Studio are
+ now included in the Windows release archives.
+
+ wimlib.h can now be included by Visual Studio without errors.
+
+ The example programs can now be compiled in C++ mode, and they also now
+ work on Windows.
+
+ Updated 'mkwinpeimg' to work correctly on images that have a "windows"
+ (lower case) directory rather than a "Windows" (upper case) directory.
+
+ Fixed configuring with --enable-ssse3-sha1 from release tarball
+ (the file nasm_lt.sh was missing).
+
+ Made some documentation improvements.
+
+Version 1.10.0:
+ The LZX compression ratio has been slightly improved. The default mode,
+ LZX level 50, is now almost as good as the old LZX level 100, while
+ being nearly the same speed as before.
+
+ Decompression performance has been slightly improved.
+
+ Filenames are now always listed in NTFS collation order.
+
+ On UNIX-like systems, wimlib can now process Windows filenames that are
+ not valid Unicode due to the presence of unpaired surrogates.
+
+ On UNIX-like systems, wimlib now always assumes UTF-8 encoding with the
+ addition of surrogate codepoints. Consequently, the environmental
+ variable WIMLIB_IMAGEX_USE_UTF8 and the flag
+ WIMLIB_INIT_FLAG_ASSUME_UTF8 no longer have any effect.
+
+ wimlib no longer depends on iconv.
+
+ Reduced memory usage slightly.
+
+ When a WIM image is applied in NTFS-3G mode, security descriptors are
+ now created in NTFS v3.0 format when supported by the volume.
+
+ Workarounds for bugs in libntfs-3g version 2013.1.13 and earlier have
+ been removed. Users are advised to upgrade to a later version of
+ libntfs-3g.
+
+ On Windows, wimlib now supports case-sensitive filename extraction when
+ supported by the underlying operating system and filesystem (operating
+ system support requires a registry setting).
+
+Version 1.9.2:
+ On UNIX, wimlib can now overwrite readonly files when extracting.
+
+ On Windows, fixed a bug where wimlib could leave a null DACL (a.k.a. "no
+ NTFS permissions") set on some existing directories after extraction.
+
+ On Windows, when applying a WIM image in "WIMBoot mode" when the WOF
+ driver is not loaded, wimlib can now correctly register a new WIM file
+ with the target volume when the target volume previously had had WIM
+ files unregistered.
+
+ Added a new testing program.
+
+ Clarified the main license text and updated public domain dedications
+ for certain files to be more thorough.
+
+Version 1.9.1:
+ Object IDs are now saved and restored on Windows and in NTFS-3G mode.
+
+ Reduced memory usage when exporting large numbers of WIM images.
+
+ Non UTF-8 locales are now detected correctly.
+
+ Addressed compiler warnings and enabled "silent" make rules by default.
+
+ Windows-specific updates:
+ Fixed a bug where duplicate backslashes could be generated in
+ link targets when extracting symbolic links and junctions.
+
+ Fixed a bug where the .cmd shortcuts for wimlib-imagex wouldn't
+ work if their full path contained a space.
+
+ Fixed bugs related to scanning SMB filesystems.
+
+ Added warning message about known issue with WindowsApps folder.
+
+ Added instructions for building from source on Windows.
+
+ VSS support is no longer marked "experimental".
+
+ Added missing license file for libdivsufsort-lite.
+
+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.
+
+ Implemented setting of Windows-specific XML information, such as
+ architecture, system root, and version details. This information is now
+ automatically set in newly captured WIM images, when appropriate.
+
+ 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.
+ 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
+ file's XML document by name.
+
+ The wimlib_get_image_property() and wimlib_set_image_property() API
+ functions now support numerically indexed elements.
+
+ Fixed a bug where, on Windows, wimlib would change the security
+ descriptor of the target directory of an extraction even when the
+ '--no-acls' option was specified.
+
+Version 1.8.3:
Fixed a bug with libntfs-3g extraction present since v1.8.1. Sometimes,
some Microsoft software would not correctly recognize data in the
- resulting filesystem. Users of the (UNIX-only) NTFS-3g based WIM
- extraction support should not use wimlib v1.8.1 or wimlib v1.8.2.
+ resulting filesystem.
+
+ Made some small improvements to the compression algorithms:
+ LZX compression ratio was slightly improved.
+ XPRESS compression ratio and speed was slightly improved.
+ LZMS compression speed was slightly improved.
+
+ Improved handling of WIM XML data. wimlib no longer drops unrecognized
+ elements when exporting images. In addition, two API functions were
+ added for better access to elements in the XML document:
+ wimlib_get_image_property() and wimlib_set_image_property().
+
+ Added support for (unsafe) in-place compaction of WIM files.
+
+ Improved performance of image export by reusing metadata resources
+ instead of always rebuilding and recompressing them.
+
+ Improved performance of wimlib_update_image() by delaying the update to
+ the WIM's XML document until a write is requested.
+
+ On Windows, the target of an extraction may now be a reparse point
+ (which will be dereferenced).
+
+ On Windows, wimlib now correctly restores non-Microsoft reparse points.
+ However, this remains broken in NTFS-3g mode due to a libntfs-3g bug.
+
+ On Windows, wimlib now has improved performance when archiving files
+ from a filesystem backed by a WIM (a "WIMBoot" setup).
Several improvements to System Compression (compact mode) support:
Compact-mode extractions now work correctly with wofadk.sys on
older versions of Windows.
- For compatibility with the Windows bootloader, XPRESS4K
- compression is now automatically forced on certain files.
+ For compatibility with the Windows bootloader, the requested
+ compression format now is overridden on certain files.
+
+ Other minor bugfixes.
Version 1.8.2:
This release primarily contains various minor bug fixes and
git://wimlib.net / wimlib / blobdiff