This release primarily contains various minor bug fixes and
improvements, including:
- Reduced the stack space used by directory tree scans.
+ Improved handling of deep directory structures.
Fixed a bug where on 32-bit systems, the library could enter an
infinite loop if a WIM file was malformed in a specific way.
+ Added a workaround for a case where libntfs-3g may report
+ duplicate streams in an NTFS file.
+
Windows symbolic links and junctions in mounted WIM images are
now automatically rewritten to be valid in the mounted location.
Reparse point fixes: correctly handle the "ReparseReserved"
field, and correctly handle "empty" (data-less) reparse points.
- Improved validation of filenames.
-
- Fixed the test scripts to work in a Turkish locale.
+ On Windows, wimlib now acquires SeManageVolumePrivilege, which
+ is needed to create externally backed files using the
+ "wofadk.sys" driver.
- Fixed handling of EINTR during data I/O.
-
- Optimized memory usage of some data structures.
+ Improved validation of filenames.
Improved LZMS decompression speed.
The configure script now honors alternate pkg-config settings.
- In addition, *experimental* support has been added for compressing
+ Links have been updated to point to the new website.
+
+ In addition, experimental support has been added for compressing
extracted files using System Compression on Windows 10. This
functionality is available through the new '--compact' option to
'wimapply' and 'wimextract' as well as new library flags.