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-Version 1.13.0:
- On Windows, wimlib now supports capturing and applying extended
- attributes (EAs). It is compatible with DISM with the /EA option,
- available since Windows 10 version 1607. wimlib's EA support is on by
- default and works on older versions of Windows too.
-
- Partially fixed a bug where [ExclusionException] entries didn't take
- effect when the containing directory is matched by [ExclusionList]. It
- now works when the [ExclusionException] patterns are absolute. For
- example, listing "/dir/file" in [ExclusionException] now works even if
- "/dir" is matched by [ExclusionList].
-
- Added a '--create' option to 'wimappend' which makes it create the WIM
- file (like 'wimcapture') if it doesn't exist yet.
-
- Added an '--include-integrity' option to various wimlib-imagex commands.
- '--include-integrity' is like '--check', but it will just include an
- integrity table in the output WIM(s), while skipping verification of any
- existing integrity tables. This can be useful to avoid unwanted
- verification of large WIM files, e.g. WIMs given by '--delta-from'.
-
- 'wimextract' now reads a pathlist file from standard input when "@-" is
- given as an argument.
-
- wimsplit (API: wimlib_split()) now correctly handles a dot in the path
- to the first split WIM part, prior to the filename extension.
-
- 'wimlib-imagex --version' now shows the version of the library it is
- actually using (in case it is different from wimlib-imagex's version).
-
-Version 1.12.0:
- Fixed a bug that was causing the LZMS decompressor to be miscompiled
- with GCC 7 (this broke extracting "solid" archives).
-
- The Windows 10 Recycle Bin directory (\$RECYCLE.BIN) has been added to
- the default exclusion list.
-
- Added a '--quiet' option to wimlib-imagex.
-
- The 'mkwinpeimg' script now also looks for the syslinux BIOS modules in
- the directory /usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios.
-
- Files with timestamps before the year 1970 are now extracted correctly
- to UNIX-style filesystems, are displayed correctly by
- 'wimdir --detailed', and show up correctly in mounted WIM images.
-
- Files with timestamps after the year 2038 are now displayed correctly by
- the 32-bit Windows build of wimlib.
-
-Version 1.11.0:
- Fixed a data corruption bug (incorrect compression) when storing an
- already highly-compressed file in an LZX-compressed WIM with a chunk
- size greater than or equal to 64K. Note that this is not the default
- setting and such WIMs are not supported by Microsoft's WIM software, so
- only users who used the --chunk-size option to wimlib-imagex or the
- wimlib_set_output_chunk_size() API function may have been affected.
- This bug was introduced in wimlib v1.10.0. See
- https://wimlib.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=300 for more details.
-
- On all platforms, sparse files are now extracted as sparse.
-
- Sparse files captured from UNIX-style filesystems are now marked as
- sparse in the resulting WIM image.
-
- Added support for storing Linux-style extended attributes in WIM images.
- When the --unix-data option is used on Linux, wimlib-imagex now captures
- and applies extended attributes, in addition to the already-supported
- standard UNIX file permissions (owner/group/mode) and special files.
-
- --delta-from is now supported by wimappend. (Previously it was only
- supported by wimcapture.)
-
- On Windows, improved the way in which files deduplicated with Windows'
- Data Deduplication feature are captured.
-
- The development files needed to link with wimlib using Visual Studio are
- now included in the Windows release archives.
-
- wimlib.h can now be included by Visual Studio without errors.
-
- The example programs can now be compiled in C++ mode, and they also now
- work on Windows.
-
- Updated 'mkwinpeimg' to work correctly on images that have a "windows"
- (lower case) directory rather than a "Windows" (upper case) directory.
-
- Fixed configuring with --enable-ssse3-sha1 from release tarball
- (the file nasm_lt.sh was missing).
-
- Made some documentation improvements.
-
-Version 1.10.0:
- The LZX compression ratio has been slightly improved. The default mode,
- LZX level 50, is now almost as good as the old LZX level 100, while
- being nearly the same speed as before.
-
- Decompression performance has been slightly improved.
-
- Filenames are now always listed in NTFS collation order.
-
- On UNIX-like systems, wimlib can now process Windows filenames that are
- not valid Unicode due to the presence of unpaired surrogates.
-
- On UNIX-like systems, wimlib now always assumes UTF-8 encoding with the
- addition of surrogate codepoints. Consequently, the environmental
- variable WIMLIB_IMAGEX_USE_UTF8 and the flag
- WIMLIB_INIT_FLAG_ASSUME_UTF8 no longer have any effect.
-
- wimlib no longer depends on iconv.
-
- Reduced memory usage slightly.
-
- When a WIM image is applied in NTFS-3G mode, security descriptors are
- now created in NTFS v3.0 format when supported by the volume.
-
- Workarounds for bugs in libntfs-3g version 2013.1.13 and earlier have
- been removed. Users are advised to upgrade to a later version of
- libntfs-3g.
-
- On Windows, wimlib now supports case-sensitive filename extraction when
- supported by the underlying operating system and filesystem (operating
- system support requires a registry setting).
-
-Version 1.9.2:
- On UNIX, wimlib can now overwrite readonly files when extracting.
-
- On Windows, fixed a bug where wimlib could leave a null DACL (a.k.a. "no
- NTFS permissions") set on some existing directories after extraction.
-
- On Windows, when applying a WIM image in "WIMBoot mode" when the WOF
- driver is not loaded, wimlib can now correctly register a new WIM file
- with the target volume when the target volume previously had had WIM
- files unregistered.
-
- Added a new testing program.
-
- Clarified the main license text and updated public domain dedications
- for certain files to be more thorough.
-
-Version 1.9.1:
- Object IDs are now saved and restored on Windows and in NTFS-3G mode.
-
- Reduced memory usage when exporting large numbers of WIM images.
-
- Non UTF-8 locales are now detected correctly.
-
- Addressed compiler warnings and enabled "silent" make rules by default.
-
- Windows-specific updates:
- Fixed a bug where duplicate backslashes could be generated in
- link targets when extracting symbolic links and junctions.
-
- Fixed a bug where the .cmd shortcuts for wimlib-imagex wouldn't
- work if their full path contained a space.
-
- Fixed bugs related to scanning SMB filesystems.
-
- Added warning message about known issue with WindowsApps folder.
-
- Added instructions for building from source on Windows.
-
- VSS support is no longer marked "experimental".
-
- Added missing license file for libdivsufsort-lite.
-
-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.
-
- 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.
-
- 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
- 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.
-
- 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:
-
- wof.sys (or wofadk.sys) is now automatically attached to the
- target volume if needed.
-
- Compact-mode extractions now work correctly with wofadk.sys on
- older versions of Windows.
-
- 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:
-
- Improved handling of deep directory structures.
-
- Fixed a bug where on 32-bit systems, the library could enter an
- infinite loop if a WIM file was malformed in a specific way.
-
- Added a workaround for a case where libntfs-3g may report
- duplicate streams in an NTFS file.
-
- Windows symbolic links and junctions in mounted WIM images are
- now automatically rewritten to be valid in the mounted location.
-
- Reparse point fixes: correctly handle the "ReparseReserved"
- field, and correctly handle "empty" (data-less) reparse points.
-
- On Windows, wimlib now acquires SeManageVolumePrivilege, which
- is needed to create externally backed files using the
- "wofadk.sys" driver.
-
- Improved validation of filenames.
-
- Improved LZMS decompression speed.
-
- The configure script now honors alternate pkg-config settings.
-
- Links have been updated to point to the new website.
-
- In addition, experimental support has been added for compressing
- extracted files using System Compression on Windows 10. This
- functionality is available through the new '--compact' option to
- 'wimapply' and 'wimextract' as well as new library flags.
-
-Version 1.8.1:
- Fixed a bug in the LZX decompressor: malicious input data could cause
- out of bounds writes to memory (since wimlib v1.2.2).
-
- The output of the 'wiminfo' command now consolidates various boolean
- flags (such as "Relative path junction") into a single line.
-
- A file can now have both an unnamed data stream ("file contents") and a
- reparse point stream. Such files can exist as a result of the use of
- certain Windows features, such as offline storage, including "OneDrive".
- wimlib will now store and restore both streams on Windows as well as in
- NTFS-3g mode. Microsoft's WIMGAPI also has this behavior.
-
- On Windows, named data streams of encrypted files are no longer stored
- twice in WIM archives.
-
- On Windows, named data streams are now correctly extracted to existing
- "readonly" directories. Before, an error would be reported.
-
- On Windows, it is now possible to do a "WIMBoot mode" extraction with
- non-standalone WIMs such as delta WIMs.
-
- On Windows, when doing an extraction in "WIMBoot mode", files larger
- than 4 gigabytes are now never extracted as externally backed. This
- works around a bug in Microsoft's "WOF" driver.
-
- The '--enable-verify-compression' configure option has been removed. If
- you want to verify a WIM file, use the 'wimverify' program.
-
- The way the "file count", "directory count", "total bytes", and "hard
- link bytes" image statistics (stored in the WIM XML data) is calculated
- has been slightly changed.
-
- In mounted WIM images, the disk usage provided for each file (st_blocks)
- is now the compressed size rather than the uncompressed size.
-
- The performance of the NTFS-3g and Windows capture modes has been
- slightly improved.
-
- On UNIX-like systems, symbolic links whose targets contain the backslash
- character are now handled correctly (losslessly).
-
-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.
-
- Fixes for "WIMBoot" extraction mode (Windows only):
-
- When not using the WOF driver, extraction no longer fails if the
- disk containing the WIM file has too many partitions.
-
- When matching patterns in [PrepopulateList], all hard links of
- each file are now considered.
-
- The system registry files are now automatically treated as being
- in [PrepopulateList].
-
- 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.
-
- A number of improvements to the Windows port:
-
- Fixes for setting short filenames.
-
- Faster "WIMBoot" extraction.
-
- Updated and slimmed down the dependent DLLs.
-
- ACL inheritence bits are now restored.
-
- Mandatory integrity labels are now backed up and restored.
-
- Added a workaround for an issue where in rare cases, wimlib could create
- a compressed data stream that could not be read correctly by Windows
- after an extraction in "WIMBoot" mode.
-
- Library changes:
- Added file count progress data for
- WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_FILE_STRUCTURE and
- WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_METADATA.
-
- Added support for testing file exclusions via the user-provided
- progress function.
-
- Some documentation improvements.
-
- Made some clarifications to the license text in the COPYING file.
-
-Version 1.7.1:
- Made more improvements to the XPRESS, LZX, and LZMS compressors.
-
- The default compression mode for wimcapture is now LZX compression in
- its default mode, which is the same as '--compress=maximum'.
-
- You can now specify an optional integer compression level to the
- '--compress' option; e.g. '--compress=lzx:75'.
-
- Made a minor change to the LZMS compressor and decompressor to fix an
- incompatibility with the Microsoft implementation. In the unlikely
- event that you created an LZMS-compressed WIM with wimlib v1.7.0 or
- earlier and a checksum error is reported when extracting files from it
- with wimlib v1.7.1, decompress it with v1.7.0 then compress it with
- v1.7.1.
-
- Added 'verify' subcommand to wimlib-imagex.
-
- Notable 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.
-
- Library users can now specify a custom file for warning and
- error messages to be sent to, rather than the default of
- standard error.
-
- New progress messages:
- WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_FILE_STRUCTURE,
- WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_METADATA.
-
- New function: wimlib_verify_wim().
-
-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.
-
- On UNIX-like systems, you can now backup and restore device nodes, named
- pipes, and sockets. In addition, 32-bit user and group IDs are now
- supported.
-
- The way that UNIX data is stored in WIM files has been changed. If you
- captured any WIMs with the --unix-data option, to upgrade them you'll
- need to apply them with --unix-data using wimlib-imagex v1.6.2, then
- re-capture them with --unix-data using this version.
-
- wimlib now understands tagged metadata items, such as object IDs, that
- can be stored in WIM directory entries.
-
- Removed the --hardlink and --symlink options to wimapply, since I don't
- think they are too useful and they got in the way of improving the code.
-
- WIMs will now retain their GUIDs when rebuilt (e.g. with wimoptimize).
-
- The 'mkwinpeimg' script now supports writing the ISO image to standard
- output.
-
- 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;
- 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_XPRESS is now 1 and
- WIMLIB_COMPRESSION_TYPE_LZX is now 2 (so it's the same as
- WIMGAPI).
-
- - 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, 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().
-
- - Removed extraction flags: WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_HARDLINK,
- WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_SYMLINK, WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_FILE_ORDER,
- and WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_SEQUENTIAL.
-
- - Removed some progress messages:
- WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_APPLY_TIMESTAMPS,
- WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_DIR_STRUCTURE_BEGIN,
- WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_DIR_STRUCTURE_END. Numbering
- stays the same.
-
- - Removed some error codes. Numbering stays the same.
-
- - Replaced WIMLIB_UNMOUNT_FLAG_LAZY with
- WIMLIB_UNMOUNT_FLAG_FORCE.
-
- - WIM paths passed to progress functions now have a leading
- slash.
-
-Version 1.6.2:
- Case-insensitive comparisons of strings (e.g. filenames) containing
- UTF-16 codepoints above 32767 are now done correctly.
-
- Fixed build failure on Mac OS X.
-
- wimunmount now provides the '--new-image' option to cause changes to a
- read-write mounted image to be committed as a new image rather than as
- an update of the mounted image. (The corresponding new library flag is
- WIMLIB_UNMOUNT_FLAG_NEW_IMAGE.)
-
- The LZMS ("recovery") compression chunk size, or "dictionary size", may
- now be up to 1 GiB (1,073,741,824 bytes).
-
- The performance of LZX ("maximum") and LZMS ("recovery") compression
- with large chunk sizes has been slightly improved.
-
-Version 1.6.1:
- Stored files with size exactly 4 GiB (4,294,967,296 bytes) are now
- decompressed correctly.
-
- Fixed a bug in the LZX compressor introduced in v1.5.3. The bug
- occurred in an unlikely case, and due to validity checks it did not
- affect successfully created archives.
-
- Fixed a minor compatibility issue with the LZMS compressor and
- decompressor. This is *not* the default compression type and was only
- introduced in v1.6.0. In the unlikely event that you created an
- LZMS-compressed WIM with v1.6.0 and a checksum error is reported when
- applying it with v1.6.1, decompress it with v1.6.0 then compress it with
- v1.6.1.
-
- Memory usage for LZMS and LZX compression has been decreased.
-
- wimextract now allows wildcard characters in paths specified on the
- command line. Also, the '--strict-wildcards' option has been removed
- and replaced with the inverse option '--nullglob'. See the
- documentation for wimextract for more details and changes.
-
- The wimlib_extract_files() function is now considered deprecated in
- favor of wimlib_extract_paths().
-
- Fixed more permissions problems when extracting files on Windows.
-
- A new '--no-attributes' option has been added to wimapply and
- wimextract. The library flag is WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_NO_ATTRIBUTES.
-
- The default chunk size is now set correctly when changing the
- compression type of a WIM, for example with 'wimoptimize'.
-
- The '--metadata' option to wiminfo has been replaced with the
- '--detailed' option to wimdir.
-
- In relevant wimlib-imagex commands, '--solid' may now be used as an
- alias for '--pack-streams'.
-
-Version 1.6.0:
- Support for extracting and updating the new version 3584 WIMs has been
- added. These WIMs typically pack many streams ("files") together into a
- single compressed resource, thereby saving space. This degrades the
- performance of random access (such as that which occurs on a mounted
- image), but optimizations have been implemented for extraction. These
- new WIM files also typically use a new compression format (LZMS), which
- is similar to LZMA and can offer a better compression ratio than LZX.
- These new WIM files can be created using `wimcapture' with
- the '--compress=lzms --pack-streams' options. Note: this new WIM format
- is used by the Windows 8 web downloader, but important segments of the
- raw '.esd' files are encrypted, so wimlib will not be able to extract
- such files until they are first decrypted.
-
- wimlib now supports extracting files and directories from a WIM image
- based on a "listfile" that itself contains the list of paths to extract.
- For `wimextract', the syntax is to specify @LISTFILE instead of a PATH,
- and for the library itself, the new APIs are wimlib_extract_pathlist()
- and wimlib_extract_paths(). Path globs containing wildcard characters
- are supported.
-
- For searching WIM files, wimlib now has configurable case sensitivity.
- The default on Windows is still case-insensitive and the default on
- UNIX-like systems is still case-sensitive, but this can be overridden
- on either platform through flags to wimlib_global_init(). For
- `wimlib-imagex', the environmental variable WIMLIB_IMAGEX_IGNORE_CASE
- can be set to 1 or 0 for case-insensitive or case-sensitive behavior,
- respectively.
-
- Support for compression chunk sizes greater than the default of 32768
- bytes has been added. A larger chunk size typically results in a better
- compression ratio. However, the MS implementation is seemingly not
- compatible with all chunk sizes, especially for LZX compression, so the
- defaults remain unchanged, with the exception of the new LZMS-compressed
- WIMs, which use a larger chunk size by default.
-
- The compression/decompression API exported by wimlib has been changed.
- Now one set of functions handles all supported compression formats.
-
- `wimcapture' and `wimappend' will now display the progress of scanning
- the directory tree to capture, in addition to the progress of writing
- data to the WIM. The '--verbose' option no longer does anything. The
- library API change for this is the addition of several members to
- `struct wimlib_progress_info_scan' available to progress callbacks.
-
- `mkwinpeimg' now correctly handles the '--start-script' option when the
- start script is not in the working directory.
-
- Sequential extraction, previously requested by using
- WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_SEQUENTIAL, is now the default.
- WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_FILE_ORDER can be used to get the old default
- behavior (extract in file order).
-
-Version 1.5.3:
- The new LZX compressor added in v1.5.2 has been improved and is now
- enabled by default, except when `wimcapture' or `wimappend' is run
- *without* the '--compress' option, in which case the faster LZX
- compressor is used (the same as before). This behavior is reasonably
- consistent with ImageX which actually uses "fast" (XPRESS) compression
- by default. In those cases, use '--compress=maximum' to explicitly
- capture a WIM image using the new (slower but better) LZX compressor.
-
- The '--compress-slow' option still exists to `wimlib-imagex optimize',
- but its new behavior is to tweak the new LZX compressor even more to
- produce an even better compression ratio at the cost of more time spent
- compressing.
-
- `wimlib-imagex optimize' now supports the '--compress=TYPE' option,
- which recompresses the WIM file using the specified compression TYPE.
- The new library API function used for this is
- wimlib_set_output_compression_type().
-
- Added the wimlib_get_xml_data() function to allow library clients to
- easily retrieve the raw XML data from a WIM file if needed.
-
- Fixed a bug that could cause an error code to be incorrectly returned
- when writing XML data containing a <WINDOWS> element.
-
- Mounted WIM images will now correctly show the default file stream even
- if appears in the alternate data stream entries of the corresponding WIM
- directory entry.
-
-Version 1.5.2:
- Added a new experimental LZX compressor which can be enabled by passing
- '--compress-slow' to `wimlib-imagex capture' or `wimlib-imagex
- optimize'. (The latter is only applicable if the WIM is already
- LZX-compressed and the '--recompress' option is also given.) The
- experimental compressor is much slower but compresses the data slightly
- more --- currently usually to within a fraction of a percent of the
- results from WIMGAPI/ImageX.
-
- A workaround has been added for compatibility with versions of WinPE
- that interpret alternate data stream entries in the boot WIM
- incorrectly.
-
- An alignment bug that caused a crash in the LZX decompressor on some
- builds was fixed.
-
- wimlib now attempts to clear the WIM_HDR_FLAG_WRITE_IN_PROGRESS flag in
- the WIM header when restoring the previous state of a WIM it failed to
- successfully update.
-
- Added a workaround to avoid an access denied error on Windows when
- replacing a WIM file that another process has opened.
-
-Version 1.5.1:
- wimlib can now open WinPE WIMs from WAIK v2.1, which had a quirk that
- needed to be handled.
-
- A bug in the interpretation of negative IMAGE indices in the
- --update-of=[WIMFILE:]IMAGE option to `wimlib-imagex capture' and
- `wimlib-imagex append' has been fixed.
-
- A workaround has been added to successfully apply security descriptors
- with empty DACLs when the NTFS-3g apply mode is being used with NTFS-3g
- 2013.1.13 or earlier.
-
- `wimlib-imagex capture' can now accept the '--delta-from' option
- multiple times.
-
-Version 1.5.0:
- Added support for "pipable" WIMs. Pipable WIMs allow capturing images
- to standard output and applying images from standard input, but they are
- not compatible with Microsoft's software and are not created by default.
- See the documentation for --pipable flag of `wimlib-imagex capture' for
- more information.
-
- To better support incremental backups, added support for declaring an
- image as a modified form of another image. See the documentation for
- the '--update-of' option of `wimlib-imagex append' and `wimlib-imagex
- capture'.
-
- Added supported for "delta" WIMs. See the documentation for the
- '--delta-from' option of `wimlib-imagex capture'.
-
- The library support for managing split WIMs has been changed to support
- other arrangements, such as delta WIMs, and be easier to use. This
- change is visible in `wimlib-imagex', which also can now accept the
- '--ref' option multiple times, and also now supports "delta" WIMs as
- mentioned above.
-
- wimlib now preserves WIM integrity tables by default, even if
- WIMLIB_WRITE_FLAG_CHECK_INTEGRITY is not specified. This changes the
- behavior of `wimlib-imagex' whenever the WIM being operated on contains
- an integrity table and the '--check' option is not specified.
-
- `wimlib-imagex capture' now creates LZX-compressed WIMs by default
- (when --compress is not specified). This provides the best compression
- ratio by default, which is usually what is desired, at a cost of some
- speed.
-
- `wimlib-imagex' now supports being invoked as wimCOMMAND, where COMMAND
- is the command as in `wimlib-imagex COMMAND'; for example, it can be
- invoked as `wimapply' as an alternative to `wimlib-imagex apply'. The
- appropriate hard links are created in UNIX installations of
- `wimlib-imagex', while for the Windows distribution of `wimlib-imagex',
- batch files that emulate this behavior are generated.
-
- Security descriptors are now extracted correctly on Windows.
-
- Fixed archiving DOS names in NTFS-3g capture mode.
-
- The extraction code has been rewritten and it will now be easier to
- support new features on all supported backends (currently Win32, UNIX,
- and NTFS-3g). For example, hard-linked extraction mode (--hardlink) is
- now supported on all backends, not just UNIX.
-
- `mkwinpeimg' now supports grabbing files from the WAIK supplement rather
- than the WAIK itself.
-
- wimlib_global_init() now, by default, attempts to acquire additional
- privileges on Windows, so library clients need not do this.
-
- This update bumps the shared library version number up to 9, since it is
- not binary compatibible with previous releases.
-
-Version 1.4.2:
- Fixed bug in `wimlib-imagex export' that made it impossible to export an
- image from a WIM that is readonly at the filesystem level.
-
- Return error code rather than segfaulting when trying to list files from
- a non-first part of a split WIM.
-
- Joining a WIM will now preserve the RP_FIX and READONLY flags.
-
-Version 1.4.1:
- On Windows, paths given to wimlib-imagex are now treated case
- insensitively.
-
- Improved behavior regarding invalid filenames; in particular, on
- Windows, wimlib-imagex will, when extracting, now omit (with an option
- to override this default) filenames differing only in case, or filenames
- containing characters not valid on Windows.
-
- On Windows, wimlib now supports capturing and extracting long paths
- (longer than the so-called MAX_PATH).
-
- On Windows, `wimlib-imagex update' now acquires proper privileges when
- running as an Administrator.
-
- `wimlib-imagex update' will now complain if no image is specified when
- trying to update a multi-image WIM.
-
- `wimlib-imagex update' now supports specifying a single update command
- directly on the command line using the --command option.
-
- wimlib-imagex will now choose different units for progress messages,
- depending on the amount of data that needs to be processed.
-
- `wimlib-imagex append' will now generate a unique WIM image name if no
- name is specified and the defaulted name already exists in the WIM.
-
- wimlib now allows you to create unnamed WIM images, which can then only
- be referred to by index.
-
- wimlib now allows you to explicitly declare you want write access to a
- WIM by providing the WIMLIB_OPEN_FLAG_WRITE_ACCESS flag to
- wimlib_open_wim().
-
- wimlib now respects the WIM_HDR_FLAG_READONLY flag when set in the WIM
- header.
-
- Progress callbacks have been added to wimlib's wimlib_update_image()
- function.
-
- Added wimlib_get_wim_info(), wimlib_set_wim_info(),
- wimlib_iterate_dir_tree(), and wimlib_iterate_lookup_table() functions
- to the library.
-
- NTFS-3g capture now only warns about two conditions previously treated
- as errors.
-
- Fixed a couple issues with using wimlib-imagex on UDF filesystems on
- Windows.
-
- wimlib now correctly detects and returns an error when reading a WIM
- image with a cyclic directory structure. (Fun fact: such a WIM will
- crash Microsoft's software.)
-
-Version 1.4.0:
- Added new "extract" and "update" subcommands to wimlib-imagex, along
- with associated APIs in the library. These commands are intended mainly
- for Windows use but can be used on UNIX as well.
-
- Many documentation improvements.
-
- Fixed a bug in the Windows build where relative symbolic links were not
- captured in reparse-point fixup mode.
-
- Fixed a bug in the Windows build where file handles were left open to
- the WIM file, causing `wimlib_imagex optimize' to fail in some cases.
-
- Fixed a bug in the Windows build of wimlib-imagex where globbing
- split-WIM parts could cause the program to crash.
-
- Fixed a bug where the creation time of WIM images would be shown instead
- of the last modification time.
-
- With the Windows build it is now possible to restore a WIM containing
- symbolic links as a non-Administrator; however you will receive warnings
- about not being able to extract the symbolic links.
-
-Version 1.3.3:
- Capturing a WIM image should now be significantly faster in most cases
- due to improved use of the operating system's cache and avoiding reading
- files twice whenever possible.
-
- The Windows build should now work on Windows XP.
-
- The Windows build now supports capturing and restoring hidden,
- compressed, sparse, and encrypted files.
-
- The Windows build now supports capturing and applying WIM images from
- filesystems other than NTFS (with some reduced functionality).
-
- The Windows build now extracts short names correctly.
-
- Added support for "reparse-point" fixups (i.e. fixing up of symbolic
- links). See docs for --rpfix and --norpfix flags of `wimlib-imagex
- capture' and `wimlib-imagex apply'.
-
- The performance of splitting and joining WIMs should be slightly
- improved.
-
- The LZX and XPRESS compression and decompression functions are now
- exported from the library.
-
-Version 1.3.2:
- Improvements and bugfixes for the Windows build.
-
- Added --strict-acls options.
-
- Fixed the way that wimlib determines the order of images in the WIM.
-
-Version 1.3.1:
- Since wimlib can now be used on Windows, wimlib's implementation of
- ImageX has been renamed to wimlib-imagex to avoid confusion with
- Microsoft's implementation of ImageX, which would have the same file
- name ("imagex.exe"). If you really don't like this you can pass the
- --with-imagex-progname option to `configure' to choose a different name,
- or even simply rename the binary yourself (but the former way will
- configure the man pages to use the chosen name).
-
- Various bugs fixed in the Windows build. Mainly to do with capturing
- and restoring alternate data streams correctly in weird cases, and
- requesting the correct privileges when opening files. Also added the
- --noacls options to wimlib-imagex capture, append, and apply.
-
- Windows build again: FindFirstStreamW() and FindNextStreamW() are now
- dynamically loaded, so this may make the library compatible with Windows
- XP (however, there may still be other problems).
-
-Version 1.3.0:
- Added experimental support for native Windows builds. Binaries can be
- downloaded from the SourceForge page.
-
- --source-list option added to `imagex capture' and `imagex append'.
-
- Better support for different character encodings.
-
-Version 1.2.6:
- Storing UNIX file owners, groups, and modes in WIM images is now
- possible using `imagex capture' with the --unix-data flag.
-
- Minor bug fixes and documentation fixes.
-
-Version 1.2.5:
- NTFS capture: Fixed capturing duplicate reparse points.
-
- NTFS capture: Capture first unnamed stream if there are more than one
- (print warning instead of error).
-
- Allow multiple test cases to execute concurrently (e.g. make -j2 check).
-
-Version 1.2.4:
- Added --arch switch to mkwinpeimg script to support getting AMD64 WinPE
- from the WAIK.
-
- Update to work with ntfs-3g version 2013.1.13.
-
-Version 1.2.3:
- Fixed truncating file to shorter but non-zero length on read-write
- mounted WIM image.
-
- Various code cleanups and minor documentation fixes.
-
-Version 1.2.2:
- LZX and XPRESS decompression have received some additional optimizations
- and should now be even faster. (Although, they were already pretty
- fast--- much faster than typical I/O speeds.)
-
- Fixed a bug introduced in v1.2.1 that would cause a directory tree
- containing hard links to be captured incorrectly in some cases.
-
-Version 1.2.1:
- By default, unmounting a read-write mounted WIM with 'imagex unmount
- --commit' will now change the WIM in-place without needing to write the
- entire WIM again. Use 'imagex unmount --commit --rebuild' to get the
- old behavior.
-
- 'imagex unmount' no longer has a hard-coded limit of 10 minutes to wait
- for a response from the daemon servicing the mounted WIM. Instead,
- every second 'imagex unmount' will check if the daemon is still alive,
- and keep waiting if so, otherwise terminate with an error.
-
- 'imagex unmount --commit' on a read-write mounted WIM will now print
- progress information regarding the writing of new or modified streams
- the WIM, just like when capturing or appending a WIM.
-
- A small change has been made to XPRESS compression and it should improve
- the compression ratio slightly.
-
- A change was made that may improve performance slightly when applying a
- WIM image to a NTFS volume.
-
- Microsoft has managed to introduce even more bugs into their software,
- and now the WIMs for Windows 8 have incorrect (too low) reference counts
- for some streams. This is unsafe because such streams can be removed
- when they are in actuality still referenced in the WIM (perhaps by a
- different image). wimlib will now work around this problem by fixing
- the stream reference counts. This is only done when wimlib_delete_image() is
- called ('imagex delete') or when wimlib_mount_image() is called with
- WIMLIB_MOUNT_FLAG_READWRITE ('imagex mountrw'). Please note that this
- requires reading the metadata for all images in the WIM, so this will
- make these operations noticably slower on WIMs with multiple images.
-
- Various other bugfixes.
-
-Version 1.2.0:
- Appending images to a WIM is now be done by default without re-building
- the whole WIM. Use the --rebuild flag to get the old behavior (which
- was to re-build the entire WIM when a new image is appended).
-
- A new command `imagex optimize' is now available to manually re-build a
- WIM that has wasted space due to repeated appends.
-
- Progress information has been improved, and now arbitrary callback
- functions can be used to show the progress of a WIM operation.
-
- A possible bug with changing the bootable image of a WIM was fixed.
-
- Some advisory locking is now done to prevent two processes from
- modifying a WIM at the same time (but only in some cases). For example,
- you cannot mount two images from a WIM read-write at the same time.
-
- Some functions have been reorganized:
- * wimlib_mount() renamed to wimlib_mount_image().
- * wimlib_unmount() renamed to wimlib_unmount_image().
- * wimlib_overwrite_xml_and_header() removed as
- wimlib_overwrite() suffices now.
- * wimlib_apply_image_to_ntfs_volume() removed as
- wimlib_extract_image() suffices now.
- * wimlib_add_image_from_ntfs_volume() removed as
- * wimlib_add_image() suffices now.
-
- Previously, the soname of libwim.so has been 0.0.0, despite many
- interface changes. The soname is now updated to 1.0.0 and will now be
- updated each release.
-
-Version 1.1.0:
- Resources will now be compressed using multiple threads by default.
- (This applies to `imagex capture', `imagex append', and `imagex
- export').
-
- Some performance improvements in mounted WIMs.
-
- More progress information is shown when capturing a WIM.
-
-Version 1.0.4:
- Lots of minor fixes, code cleanups, and some documentation updates.
- Nothing in particular is really noteworthy.
-
-Version 1.0.3:
- LZX and XPRESS compression improvements.
-
- Fixed calculation of Directory Count, File Count, Total Bytes, and Hard
- Link Bytes of the WIM.
-
-Version 1.0.2:
- Fixed bug when capturing NTFS file with multiple named data streams.
-
- Internally, we are now using inode structures, even though these don't
- appear literally in the WIM file. This simplifies some of the code
- (mainly for WIM mounting) and likely fixed a few problems, although it
- needs more testing.
-
-Version 1.0.1:
- Fixed problem when exporting images from XPRESS to LZX compressed WIM or
- vice versa
-
-Version 1.0.0:
- Enough changes to call it version 1.0.0!
-
- Capturing a WIM directly from a NTFS volume, and applying a WIM directly
- to a NTFS volume, is now supported.
-
- Hard links and symbolic links have much improved support. They are
- supported for WIM capture, WIM application, and mounted WIMs (you can
- even make them on read-write mounted WIMs).
-
- Alternate data streams are now supported on mounted WIMs through an
- xattr or a Windows-style stream interface. Also they are supported when
- capturing a WIM from NTFS or applying a WIM to NTFS.
-
- Split WIMs are better supported. You may now apply an image directly
- from a split WIM, mount an image from a split WIM read-only, or export
- an image from a split WIM.
-
- Using a capture configuration file is now supported (but not fully yet).
-
- SHA1 message digests are checked in more places, so we can make sure
- applied and captured data is correct.
-
- Man pages have been updated and consolidated.
-
-Version 0.7.2:
- Fixed segfault when unmounting read-only WIM.
-
-Version 0.7.1:
- Support for joining and splitting WIMs.
- Also, security data is now preserved by default.
-
-Version 0.6.3:
- Can now build with older gcc and system headers, like on CentOS 5.
-
-Version 0.6.2:
- Fixed bug that made it impossible to overwrite files in read-write
- mount.
-
-Version 0.6.1:
- Write byte-order mark before WIM XML data. (imagex.exe requires this to
- be there.)
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