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-Version 1.7.4-BETA:
-       The Windows binary distribution no longer contain third party DLLs.
-       These dependencies are instead compiled directly into libwim.dll.
+Version 1.7.4:
+       The Windows binary distribution no longer contains third party DLLs.
+       These dependencies are instead compiled directly into the libwim DLL.
 
        Added more fixes for wimlib on non-x86 architectures such as ARM.
 
        Extracting files to a Windows PE in-memory filesystem no longer fails if
        the target files do not yet exist.
 
-       Made more improvements to compression and decompression.  Most notable
-       is about 10% faster XPRESS compression with a tiny improvement in
-       compression ratio.
+       Improved the performance of XPRESS compression and LZMS decompression.
+
+       Enabled SSSE3 accelerated SHA-1 computation in x86_64 Windows builds.
+       It will automatically be faster on newer Intel and AMD processors.
 
        Removed the --with-imagex-progname and --enable-more-assertions
        configure options.