-Only the most important changes more recent than version 0.6 are noted here.
+Version 1.7.1-BETA:
+ Made more improvements to the compression algorithms.
-Version 1.7.0-BETA:
- Improved compatibility with version 3584 WIM / ESD files.
+ The default compression mode for wimcapture is now LZX compression in
+ its default mode, which is the the same as '--compress=maximum'.
- Performance improvements, including for extraction.
+ You can now specify an optional integer compression level to the
+ '--compress' or '--solid-compress' options; e.g. '--compress=lzx:75'.
+ Currently, the default level in all cases is 50. This capability
+ deprecates the '--compress-slow' (or '--recompress-slow') option to
+ several wimlib-imagex commands.
+
+ The '--pack-streams', '--pack-compress', and '--pack-chunk-size' options
+ to several wimlib-imagex commands have been deprecated in favor of more
+ "standard" names: '--solid', '--solid-compress', and
+ '--solid-chunk-size', respectively.
+
+ The XPRESS compressor no longer supports chunks larger than 65536 bytes.
+ There is little point in having larger chunks, since the LZ77 sliding
+ window for XPRESS cannot be larger than 65536 bytes. This change does
+ not affect the default XPRESS chunk size, which is 32768.
+
+ The new (as of v1.7.0) extraction code will no longer run out of file
+ handles when extracting many (1000+) identical files.
+
+ Library changes:
+
+ Custom compressor parameters have been removed from the library
+ in favor of the simpler level-based API.
+
+ Decompressor parameters have been removed entirely.
+
+ The maximum XPRESS chunk size has been reduced, as mentioned
+ above.
+
+ Library users can now initialize and de-initialize the library
+ multiple times in one run of an application program.
+
+ Library users will now receive WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_WRITE_STREAMS
+ and WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_STREAMS messages more frequently
+ when writing or extracting large WIM files.
+
+ Added experimental new write flag:
+ WIMLIB_WRITE_FLAG_SEND_DONE_WITH_FILE_MESSAGES.
+
+ Library users can now specify a custom file for warning and
+ error messages to be sent to, rather than the default of
+ standard error.
+
+Version 1.7.0:
+ Improved compression, decompression, and extraction performance.
+
+ Improved compatibility with version 3584 WIM / ESD files:
+ - Add support for reading and writing multiple solid blocks per
+ archive, which WIMGAPI/DISM can create when appending an image.
+ - Correctly create solid blocks larger than 4 GiB.
'add' commands passed to wimupdate will now replace existing
nondirectory files by default. Use the --no-replace option to get the
old behavior.
+ The license for the library now contains an exception that allows using
+ it under the LGPL. See the COPYING file for details.
+
+ In reparse-point fixup mode (the default for capture), symbolic links
+ and junctions that point outside the tree being captured are no longer
+ excluded from capture.
+
Added support for "WIMBoot" capture and extraction. See the
documentation for the new '--wimboot' option to wimcapture and wimapply
for more information.
The 'mkwinpeimg' script now supports writing the ISO image to standard
output.
- The <ARCH> element in WIM XML data will now be exported correctly.
+ The <ARCH> element in WIM XML data is now exported correctly.
On Windows, sparse file attributes are no longer set on extracted files.
Oddly enough, this actually saves disk space in some cases.
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.
+ support. Use --without-fuse to disable support for mounting WIM images;
+ this will also disable the need for extended attribute support.
+
+ Configuring with --enable-ssse3-sha1 now works correctly.
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.
+ - User-provided progress functions are now registered using a
+ separate function, wimlib_register_progress_function(). The
+ 'progress_func' argument to many functions no longer exists.
+
+ - The return value from user-provided progress functions is now
+ significant.
+
+ - A context argument has been added to the prototype of
+ user-provided progress functions.
- '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(),
- and wimlib_update_image(). However no code changes are
- necessary if a NULL configuration was being used.
+ and wimlib_update_image(). However, a NULL value passed in
+ the argument retains the same meaning.
- Removed deprecated functions: some (de)compression functions,
wimlib_extract_files(), and wimlib_print_metadata().
WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_SYMLINK, WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_FILE_ORDER,
and WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_SEQUENTIAL.
- - Removed progress messages:
+ - Removed some progress messages:
WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_APPLY_TIMESTAMPS,
WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_DIR_STRUCTURE_BEGIN,
WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_DIR_STRUCTURE_END. Numbering
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