Only the most important changes more recent than version 0.6 are noted here.
Version 1.5.0:
- Added support for "pipable" WIMs. This support allows capturing images
- to standard output or applying images from standard input, but they are
+ 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 documentation for --pipable flag of `wimlib-imagex capture' for more
- information. Two new functions have been added to the library to fully
- support this: wimlib_write_to_fd() and wimlib_extract_image_from_pipe().
+ See the documentation for --pipable flag of `wimlib-imagex capture' for
+ more information. Two new functions have been added to the library to
+ fully support this: wimlib_write_to_fd() and
+ wimlib_extract_image_from_pipe().
wimlib now preserve WIM integrity tables by default, even if
WIMLIB_WRITE_FLAG_CHECK_INTEGRITY is not specified. This changes the
ratio by default, which is usually what is desired, at a cost of some
speed.
+ For convenience, `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.
+
+ `wimlib-imagex' no longer recognizes the 'mount', 'mountrw', and
+ 'unmount' commands on Windows, since they didn't work on Windows anyway.
+
Security descriptors are now extracted correctly on Windows.
`mkwinpeimg' now supports grabbing files from the WAIK supplement rather
The test suite no longer fails when run in a locale where the decimal
separator is not a period.
- WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_DENTRY has been removed and
- WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_VERBOSE re-reserved for future use.
+ From the library, WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_DENTRY has been removed
+ and WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_VERBOSE re-reserved for future use. Also,
+ WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_JOIN_STREAMS has been removed, but
+ WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_WRITE_STREAMS will be received instead and now
+ provides WIM part numbers.
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.
+ The LZX compression and decompression code now compiles correctly on the
+ ARM architecture (where 'char' is unsigned).
+
+ wimlib_split() progress messages now report the total number of parts
+ being written.
+
+ Fixed storing DOS names in NTFS-3g capture mode.
+
A few changes were made to the error codes returned by library routines.
+ To make wimlib easier to use on Windows, wimlib_global_init() now
+ automatically attempts to acquire additional privileges on Windows, so
+ library clients need not do this (although they can provide a flag to
+ get the old behavior and manage privileges themselves).
+
+ This update bumps the shared library version number up to 9, since it
+ doesn't quite maintain binary compatibility 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.
git://wimlib.net / wimlib / blobdiff