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-Version 1.7.4-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.  (Broken since v1.7.0, but actually a
-       result of a Microsoft bug.)
+       the target files do not yet exist.
 
-       More fixes for wimlib on non-x86 architectures such as ARM.
+       Improved the performance of XPRESS compression and LZMS decompression.
 
-       Slight performance improvements in compression and 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.