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-Version 1.7.1-BETA:
-       Made more improvements to the compression algorithms.
+Version 1.7.3-BETA:
+       The library now permits making in-memory changes to a WIMStruct backed
+       by a read-only WIM file.
 
-       The default compression mode for wimcapture is now LZX compression in
-       its default mode, which is the the same as '--compress=maximum'.
+       Extraction in "WIMBoot mode" without the WOF driver available no longer
+       fails if the disk containing the WIM file has too many partitions.
 
-       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.
+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.
 
-       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.
+               ACL inheritence bits are now restored.
 
-       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.
+               Mandatory integrity labels are now backed up and restored.
 
-       The new (as of v1.7.0) extraction code will no longer run out of file
-       handles when extracting many (1000+) identical files.
+       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.
 
-               Custom compressor parameters have been removed from the library
-               in favor of the simpler level-based API.
+               Added support for testing file exclusions via the user-provided
+               progress function.
 
-               Decompressor parameters have been removed entirely.
+               Some documentation improvements.
 
-               The maximum XPRESS chunk size has been reduced, as mentioned
-               above.
+       Made some clarifications to the license text in the COPYING file.
 
-               Library users can now initialize and de-initialize the library
-               multiple times in one run of an application program.
+Version 1.7.1:
+       Made more improvements to the XPRESS, LZX, and LZMS compressors.
 
-               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.
+       The default compression mode for wimcapture is now LZX compression in
+       its default mode, which is the same as '--compress=maximum'.
 
-               Added experimental new write flag:
-               WIMLIB_WRITE_FLAG_SEND_DONE_WITH_FILE_MESSAGES.
+       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.