lz_sarray: Performance and memory usage optimizations

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@@ -1,5 +1,17 @@
 Only the most important changes more recent than version 0.6 are noted here.
 
+Version 1.6.1:
+       Stored files with size exactly 4 GiB (4,294,967,296 bytes) are now
+       decompressed correctly.
+
+       Paths passed to wimlib_extract_paths() and wimlib_iterate_dir_tree() may
+       now use either forwards or backwards slashes, as documented.
+
+       Fixed a potential stack overflow when extracting solid archives (packed
+       streams) containing more than about 100000 files.
+
+       Memory usage for LZMS and LZX compression has been decreased.
+
 Version 1.6.0:
        Support for extracting and updating the new version 3584 WIMs has been
        added.  These WIMs typically pack many streams ("files") together into a
@@ -8,12 +20,11 @@ Version 1.6.0:
        image), but optimizations have been implemented for extraction.  These
        new WIM files also typically use a new compression format (LZMS), which
        is similar to LZMA and can offer a better compression ratio than LZX.
-       These new WIM files can be created with Dism using '/compress recovery',
-       or using `wimcapture' using '--pack-streams', although wimlib's LZMS
-       compressor is not yet very good, the latter is not recommended.  Note:
-       this new WIM format is used by the Windows 8 web downloader, but
-       important segments of the raw '.esd' files are encrypted, so wimlib will
-       not be able to extract such files until they are first decrypted.
+       These new WIM files can be created using `wimcapture' with
+       the '--compress=lzms --pack-streams' options.  Note: this new WIM format
+       is used by the Windows 8 web downloader, but important segments of the
+       raw '.esd' files are encrypted, so wimlib will not be able to extract
+       such files until they are first decrypted.
 
        wimlib now supports extracting files and directories from a WIM image
        based on a "listfile" that itself contains the list of paths to extract.
@@ -24,7 +35,7 @@ Version 1.6.0:
 
        For searching WIM files, wimlib now has configurable case sensitivity.
        The default on Windows is still case-insensitive and the default on
-       UNIX-like systems is still case-sensitive, but this can be overwridden
+       UNIX-like systems is still case-sensitive, but this can be overridden
        on either platform through flags to wimlib_global_init().  For
        `wimlib-imagex', the environmental variable WIMLIB_IMAGEX_IGNORE_CASE
        can be set to 1 or 0 for case-insensitive or case-sensitive behavior,
@@ -38,7 +49,7 @@ Version 1.6.0:
        WIMs, which use a larger chunk size by default.
 
        The compression/decompression API exported by wimlib has been changed.
-       Now one set of functions support all supported compression formats.
+       Now one set of functions handles all supported compression formats.
 
        `wimcapture' and `wimappend' will now display the progress of scanning
        the directory tree to capture, in addition to the progress of writing
@@ -49,10 +60,10 @@ Version 1.6.0:
        `mkwinpeimg' now correctly handles the '--start-script' option when the
        start script is not in the working directory.
 
-       Sequential extraction, previously required by using
+       Sequential extraction, previously requested by using
        WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_SEQUENTIAL, is now the default.
-       WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_FILE_ORDER can be used to get the old behavior
-       (extract in file order).
+       WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_FILE_ORDER can be used to get the old default
+       behavior (extract in file order).
 
 Version 1.5.3:
        The new LZX compressor added in v1.5.2 has been improved and is now