Only the most important changes more recent than version 0.6 are noted here.
-Version 1.6.3-BETA:
+Version 1.7.0-BETA:
Improved compatibility with version 3584 WIM / ESD files.
Performance improvements, including for extraction.
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.
On Windows, sparse file attributes are no longer set on extracted files.
+ On UNIX, configuring with --disable-xattr or --enable-xattr is no longer
+ supported. Mounting WIM images now always requires extended attribute
+ support. Use --without-fuse to disable support for mounting WIM images.
+
The shared library version has been bumped up. The main
incompatibilities are:
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(),
git://wimlib.net / wimlib / blobdiff