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-Version 1.7.3-BETA:
+Version 1.8.0:
+       Improved the LZX compressor.  It is now 15-20% faster than before and
+       provides a slightly better compression ratio.
+
+       Improved the LZMS compressor.  It now provides a compression ratio
+       slightly better than WIMGAPI while still being faster and using slightly
+       less memory.
+
+       The compression chunk size in solid resources, e.g. when capturing or
+       exporting a WIM file using the '--solid' option, now defaults to 64 MiB
+       (67108864 bytes) instead of 32 MiB (33554432 bytes).  This provides a
+       better compression ratio and is the same value that WIMGAPI uses.  The
+       memory usage is less than 50% higher than wimlib v1.7.4 and is slightly
+       lower than WIMGAPI's memory usage, but if it is too much, it is still
+       possible to choose a lower value, e.g. with the '--solid-chunk-size'
+       option to wimlib-imagex.
+
+       The '--chunk-size' and '--solid-chunk-size' options to wimlib-imagex now
+       accept the 'K', 'M', and 'G' suffixes.
+
+       Files are now sorted by name extension when creating a solid WIM file.
+
+       Fixed various issues related to capture/apply of EFS-encrypted files on
+       Windows.
+
+       The file list printed by 'wimdir' is now sorted by the platform-specific
+       case sensitivity setting, rather than always case sensitively.  This
+       also affects the library function wimlib_iterate_dir_tree().
+
+       On Windows, some error and warning messages have been improved.
+
+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.
+
+       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.
+
+Version 1.7.3:
+       Fix for very slow export from solid WIM / ESD files.
+
+       Fix for LZX and LZMS algorithms on non-x86 architectures, such as ARM.
+
+       New progress message: WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_HANDLE_ERROR.  Applications
+       may use this to treat some types of errors as non-fatal.
+
        The library now permits making in-memory changes to a WIMStruct backed
        by a read-only WIM file.
 
@@ -13,9 +68,8 @@ Version 1.7.3-BETA:
                The system registry files are now automatically treated as being
                in [PrepopulateList].
 
-       Added a workaround that tries to prevent short filename conflicts.  It
-       can have an effect primarily on versions of Windows that do not support
-       removing short names from files (earlier than Windows 7).
+               Added a hack to try to work around an intermittent bug in
+               Microsoft's WOF (Windows Overlay Filesystem) driver.
 
 Version 1.7.2:
        Made more improvements to the XPRESS, LZX, and LZMS compressors.