win32_capture.c: retry NtReadFile() requests

[wimlib] / NEWS

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 82632cd41a24c953c11b8284da763b52092cfb12..9b33a457b21f0d094fc6c45d52689db366010b0f 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,4 +1,12 @@
-Version 1.9.0-BETA:
+Version 1.9.1-BETA:
+       Reduced memory usage when exporting large numbers of WIM images.
+
+       VSS support is no longer marked "experimental".
+
+       Made some minor build-related updates.  Notably, enabled "silent" make
+       rules; this makes the output cleaner when building from source.
+
+Version 1.9.0:
        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.
@@ -7,13 +15,17 @@ Version 1.9.0-BETA:
        architecture, system root, and version details.  This information is now
        automatically set in newly captured WIM images, when appropriate.
 
-       Significantly improved performance of directory scans of full NTFS
-       volumes on Windows 8 and later.
+       Improved performance of directory tree scans on Windows.
+
+       On Windows, to improve capture performance, wimlib now sometimes opens
+       files by inode number rather than by path.  This is enabled for
+       wimcapture and wimappend, but for now other applications have to opt-in.
 
        The progress messages printed by wimlib-imagex while writing WIM files
        have been slightly tweaked.
 
        Progress information for directory tree scans now counts all hard links.
+       Also, on Windows "\\?\" is no longer stripped from the current path.
 
        Added a new '--image-property' option to 'wimcapture', 'wimappend', and
        'wiminfo'.  This option lets you assign values to elements in a WIM