Implement setting of Windows-specific XML information

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-Version 1.8.3-BETA:
+Version 1.9.0-BETA:
+       Added experimental support for Windows VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service).
+       The new '--snapshot' argument to 'wimcapture' makes wimlib automatically
+       create and use a temporary VSS snapshot when capturing a WIM image.
+
+       Implemented setting of Windows-specific XML information, such as
+       architecture, system root, and version details.  This information is now
+       automatically set in newly captured WIM images, when appropriate.
+
+       Added a new '--image-property' option to 'wimcapture', 'wimappend', and
+       'wiminfo'.  This option lets you assign values to elements in a WIM
+       file's XML document by name.
+
+       The wimlib_get_image_property() and wimlib_set_image_property() API
+       functions now support numerically indexed elements.
+
+       Fixed a bug where, on Windows, wimlib would change the security
+       descriptor of the target directory of an extraction even when the
+       '--no-acls' option was specified.
+
+Version 1.8.3:
        Fixed a bug with libntfs-3g extraction present since v1.8.1.  Sometimes,
        some Microsoft software would not correctly recognize data in the
-       resulting filesystem.  Users of the (UNIX-only) NTFS-3g based WIM
-       extraction support should not use wimlib v1.8.1 or wimlib v1.8.2.
+       resulting filesystem.
+
+       Made some small improvements to the compression algorithms:
+               LZX compression ratio was slightly improved.
+               XPRESS compression ratio and speed was slightly improved.
+               LZMS compression speed was slightly improved.
+
+       Improved handling of WIM XML data.  wimlib no longer drops unrecognized
+       elements when exporting images.  In addition, two API functions were
+       added for better access to elements in the XML document:
+       wimlib_get_image_property() and wimlib_set_image_property().
+
+       Added support for (unsafe) in-place compaction of WIM files.
+
+       Improved performance of image export by reusing metadata resources
+       instead of always rebuilding and recompressing them.
+
+       Improved performance of wimlib_update_image() by delaying the update to
+       the WIM's XML document until a write is requested.
+
+       On Windows, the target of an extraction may now be a reparse point
+       (which will be dereferenced).
+
+       On Windows, wimlib now correctly restores non-Microsoft reparse points.
+       However, this remains broken in NTFS-3g mode due to a libntfs-3g bug.
+
+       On Windows, wimlib now has improved performance when archiving files
+       from a filesystem backed by a WIM (a "WIMBoot" setup).
 
        Several improvements to System Compression (compact mode) support:
 
@@ -15,6 +61,8 @@ Version 1.8.3-BETA:
                For compatibility with the Windows bootloader, the requested
                compression format now is overridden on certain files.
 
+       Other minor bugfixes.
+
 Version 1.8.2:
        This release primarily contains various minor bug fixes and
        improvements, including: