Only the most important changes more recent than version 0.6 are noted here.
+Version 1.7.0-BETA:
+ Improved compatibility with version 3584 WIM / ESD files.
+
+ Performance improvements, including for extraction.
+
+ 'add' commands passed to wimupdate will now replace existing
+ nondirectory files by default. Use the --no-replace option to get the
+ old behavior.
+
+ Added support for "WIMBoot" capture and extraction. See the
+ documentation for the new '--wimboot' option to wimcapture and wimapply
+ for more information.
+
+ On UNIX-like systems, you can now backup and restore device nodes, named
+ pipes, and sockets. In addition, 32-bit user and group IDs are now
+ supported.
+
+ The way that UNIX data is stored in WIM files has been changed. If you
+ captured any WIMs with the --unix-data option, to upgrade them you'll
+ need to apply them with --unix-data using wimlib-imagex v1.6.2, then
+ re-capture them with --unix-data using this version.
+
+ wimlib now understands tagged metadata items, such as object IDs, that
+ can be stored in WIM directory entries.
+
+ Removed the --hardlink and --symlink options to wimapply, since I don't
+ think they are too useful and they got in the way of improving the code.
+
+ WIMs will now retain their GUIDs when rebuilt (e.g. with wimoptimize).
+
+ The 'mkwinpeimg' script now supports writing the ISO image to standard
+ output.
+
+ On Windows, sparse file attributes are no longer set on extracted files.
+
+ The shared library version has been bumped up. The main
+ incompatibilities are:
+
+ - WIMLIB_COMPRESSION_TYPE_XPRESS is now 1 and
+ WIMLIB_COMPRESSION_TYPE_LZX is now 2 (so it's the same as
+ WIMGAPI).
+
+ - Progress functions, including their prototypes as well as how
+ they are provided to the library, have been changed.
+
+ - 'struct wimlib_capture_config' has been removed. The library
+ now takes the path to the configuration file directly. This
+ affects wimlib_add_image(), wimlib_add_image_multisource(),
+ and wimlib_update_image(). However no code changes are
+ necessary if a NULL configuration was being used.
+
+ - Removed deprecated functions: some (de)compression functions,
+ wimlib_extract_files(), and wimlib_print_metadata().
+
+ - Removed extraction flags: WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_HARDLINK,
+ WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_SYMLINK, and
+ WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_FILE_ORDER.
+
+ - Removed progress messages:
+ WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_APPLY_TIMESTAMPS,
+ WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_DIR_STRUCTURE_BEGIN,
+ WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_DIR_STRUCTURE_END.
+
+ - WIM paths passed to progress functions now have a leading
+ slash.
+
+Version 1.6.2:
+ Case-insensitive comparisons of strings (e.g. filenames) containing
+ UTF-16 codepoints above 32767 are now done correctly.
+
+ Fixed build failure on Mac OS X.
+
+ wimunmount now provides the '--new-image' option to cause changes to a
+ read-write mounted image to be committed as a new image rather than as
+ an update of the mounted image. (The corresponding new library flag is
+ WIMLIB_UNMOUNT_FLAG_NEW_IMAGE.)
+
+ The LZMS ("recovery") compression chunk size, or "dictionary size", may
+ now be up to 1 GiB (1,073,741,824 bytes).
+
+ The performance of LZX ("maximum") and LZMS ("recovery") compression
+ with large chunk sizes has been slightly improved.
+
+Version 1.6.1:
+ Stored files with size exactly 4 GiB (4,294,967,296 bytes) are now
+ decompressed correctly.
+
+ Fixed a bug in the LZX compressor introduced in v1.5.3. The bug
+ occurred in an unlikely case, and due to validity checks it did not
+ affect successfully created archives.
+
+ Fixed a minor compatibility issue with the LZMS compressor and
+ decompressor. This is *not* the default compression type and was only
+ introduced in v1.6.0. In the unlikely event that you created an
+ LZMS-compressed WIM with v1.6.0 and a checksum error is reported when
+ applying it with v1.6.1, decompress it with v1.6.0 then compress it with
+ v1.6.1.
+
+ Memory usage for LZMS and LZX compression has been decreased.
+
+ wimextract now allows wildcard characters in paths specified on the
+ command line. Also, the '--strict-wildcards' option has been removed
+ and replaced with the inverse option '--nullglob'. See the
+ documentation for wimextract for more details and changes.
+
+ The wimlib_extract_files() function is now considered deprecated in
+ favor of wimlib_extract_paths().
+
+ Fixed more permissions problems when extracting files on Windows.
+
+ A new '--no-attributes' option has been added to wimapply and
+ wimextract. The library flag is WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_NO_ATTRIBUTES.
+
+ The default chunk size is now set correctly when changing the
+ compression type of a WIM, for example with 'wimoptimize'.
+
+ The '--metadata' option to wiminfo has been replaced with the
+ '--detailed' option to wimdir.
+
+ In relevant wimlib-imagex commands, '--solid' may now be used as an
+ alias for '--pack-streams'.
+
+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
+ single compressed resource, thereby saving space. This degrades the
+ performance of random access (such as that which occurs on a mounted
+ 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 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.
+ For `wimextract', the syntax is to specify @LISTFILE instead of a PATH,
+ and for the library itself, the new APIs are wimlib_extract_pathlist()
+ and wimlib_extract_paths(). Path globs containing wildcard characters
+ are supported.
+
+ 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 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,
+ respectively.
+
+ Support for compression chunk sizes greater than the default of 32768
+ bytes has been added. A larger chunk size typically results in a better
+ compression ratio. However, the MS implementation is seemingly not
+ compatible with all chunk sizes, especially for LZX compression, so the
+ defaults remain unchanged, with the exception of the new LZMS-compressed
+ WIMs, which use a larger chunk size by default.
+
+ The compression/decompression API exported by wimlib has been changed.
+ 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
+ data to the WIM. The '--verbose' option no longer does anything. The
+ library API change for this is the addition of several members to
+ `struct wimlib_progress_info_scan' available to progress callbacks.
+
+ `mkwinpeimg' now correctly handles the '--start-script' option when the
+ start script is not in the working directory.
+
+ 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 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
+ enabled by default, except when `wimcapture' or `wimappend' is run
+ *without* the '--compress' option, in which case the faster LZX
+ compressor is used (the same as before). This behavior is reasonably
+ consistent with ImageX which actually uses "fast" (XPRESS) compression
+ by default. In those cases, use '--compress=maximum' to explicitly
+ capture a WIM image using the new (slower but better) LZX compressor.
+
+ The '--compress-slow' option still exists to `wimlib-imagex optimize',
+ but its new behavior is to tweak the new LZX compressor even more to
+ produce an even better compression ratio at the cost of more time spent
+ compressing.
+
+ `wimlib-imagex optimize' now supports the '--compress=TYPE' option,
+ which recompresses the WIM file using the specified compression TYPE.
+ The new library API function used for this is
+ wimlib_set_output_compression_type().
+
+ Added the wimlib_get_xml_data() function to allow library clients to
+ easily retrieve the raw XML data from a WIM file if needed.
+
+ Fixed a bug that could cause an error code to be incorrectly returned
+ when writing XML data containing a <WINDOWS> element.
+
+ Mounted WIM images will now correctly show the default file stream even
+ if appears in the alternate data stream entries of the corresponding WIM
+ directory entry.
+
+Version 1.5.2:
+ Added a new experimental LZX compressor which can be enabled by passing
+ '--compress-slow' to `wimlib-imagex capture' or `wimlib-imagex
+ optimize'. (The latter is only applicable if the WIM is already
+ LZX-compressed and the '--recompress' option is also given.) The
+ experimental compressor is much slower but compresses the data slightly
+ more --- currently usually to within a fraction of a percent of the
+ results from WIMGAPI/ImageX.
+
+ A workaround has been added for compatibility with versions of WinPE
+ that interpret alternate data stream entries in the boot WIM
+ incorrectly.
+
+ An alignment bug that caused a crash in the LZX decompressor on some
+ builds was fixed.
+
+ wimlib now attempts to clear the WIM_HDR_FLAG_WRITE_IN_PROGRESS flag in
+ the WIM header when restoring the previous state of a WIM it failed to
+ successfully update.
+
+ Added a workaround to avoid an access denied error on Windows when
+ replacing a WIM file that another process has opened.
+
+Version 1.5.1:
+ wimlib can now open WinPE WIMs from WAIK v2.1, which had a quirk that
+ needed to be handled.
+
+ A bug in the interpretation of negative IMAGE indices in the
+ --update-of=[WIMFILE:]IMAGE option to `wimlib-imagex capture' and
+ `wimlib-imagex append' has been fixed.
+
+ A workaround has been added to successfully apply security descriptors
+ with empty DACLs when the NTFS-3g apply mode is being used with NTFS-3g
+ 2013.1.13 or earlier.
+
+ `wimlib-imagex capture' can now accept the '--delta-from' option
+ multiple times.
+
Version 1.5.0:
Added support for "pipable" WIMs. Pipable WIMs allow capturing images
to standard output and applying images from standard input, but they are
not compatible with Microsoft's software and are not created by default.
See the documentation for --pipable flag of `wimlib-imagex capture' for
- more information. Two new functions have been added to the library to
- fully support this: wimlib_write_to_fd() and
- wimlib_extract_image_from_pipe().
+ more information.
+
+ To better support incremental backups, added support for declaring an
+ image as a modified form of another image. See the documentation for
+ the '--update-of' option of `wimlib-imagex append' and `wimlib-imagex
+ capture'.
- wimlib now preserve WIM integrity tables by default, even if
+ Added supported for "delta" WIMs. See the documentation for the
+ '--delta-from' option of `wimlib-imagex capture'.
+
+ The library support for managing split WIMs has been changed to support
+ other arrangements, such as delta WIMs, and be easier to use. This
+ change is visible in `wimlib-imagex', which also can now accept the
+ '--ref' option multiple times, and also now supports "delta" WIMs as
+ mentioned above.
+
+ wimlib now preserves WIM integrity tables by default, even if
WIMLIB_WRITE_FLAG_CHECK_INTEGRITY is not specified. This changes the
behavior of `wimlib-imagex' whenever the WIM being operated on contains
an integrity table and the '--check' option is not specified.
ratio by default, which is usually what is desired, at a cost of some
speed.
- For convenience, `wimlib-imagex' now supports being invoked as
- wimCOMMAND, where COMMAND is the command as in `wimlib-imagex COMMAND';
- for example, it can be invoked as `wimapply' as an alternative to
- `wimlib-imagex apply'. The appropriate hard links are created in UNIX
- installations of `wimlib-imagex', while for the Windows distribution of
- `wimlib-imagex', batch files that emulate this behavior are generated.
-
- `wimlib-imagex' no longer recognizes the 'mount', 'mountrw', and
- 'unmount' commands on Windows, since they didn't work on Windows anyway.
+ `wimlib-imagex' now supports being invoked as wimCOMMAND, where COMMAND
+ is the command as in `wimlib-imagex COMMAND'; for example, it can be
+ invoked as `wimapply' as an alternative to `wimlib-imagex apply'. The
+ appropriate hard links are created in UNIX installations of
+ `wimlib-imagex', while for the Windows distribution of `wimlib-imagex',
+ batch files that emulate this behavior are generated.
Security descriptors are now extracted correctly on Windows.
- `mkwinpeimg' now supports grabbing files from the WAIK supplement rather
- than the WAIK itself.
-
- The test suite no longer fails when run in a locale where the decimal
- separator is not a period.
-
- From the library, WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_DENTRY has been removed
- and WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_VERBOSE re-reserved for future use. Also,
- WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_JOIN_STREAMS has been removed, but
- WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_WRITE_STREAMS will be received instead and now
- provides WIM part numbers.
+ Fixed archiving DOS names in NTFS-3g capture mode.
The extraction code has been rewritten and it will now be easier to
support new features on all supported backends (currently Win32, UNIX,
and NTFS-3g). For example, hard-linked extraction mode (--hardlink) is
now supported on all backends, not just UNIX.
- The LZX compression and decompression code now compiles correctly on the
- ARM architecture (where 'char' is unsigned).
-
- wimlib_split() progress messages now report the total number of parts
- being written.
-
- Fixed storing DOS names in NTFS-3g capture mode.
-
- A few changes were made to the error codes returned by library routines.
+ `mkwinpeimg' now supports grabbing files from the WAIK supplement rather
+ than the WAIK itself.
- To make wimlib easier to use on Windows, wimlib_global_init() now
- automatically attempts to acquire additional privileges on Windows, so
- library clients need not do this (although they can provide a flag to
- get the old behavior and manage privileges themselves).
+ wimlib_global_init() now, by default, attempts to acquire additional
+ privileges on Windows, so library clients need not do this.
- This update bumps the shared library version number up to 9, since it
- doesn't quite maintain binary compatibility with previous releases.
+ This update bumps the shared library version number up to 9, since it is
+ not binary compatibible with previous releases.
Version 1.4.2:
Fixed bug in `wimlib-imagex export' that made it impossible to export an
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