Update version: v1.7.0-BETA

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 Only the most important changes more recent than version 0.6 are noted here.
 
-Version 1.6.3-BETA:
+Version 1.7.0-BETA:
        Improved compatibility with version 3584 WIM / ESD files.
 
        Performance improvements, including for extraction.
@@ -13,6 +13,14 @@ Version 1.6.3-BETA:
        documentation for the new '--wimboot' option to wimcapture and wimapply
        for more information.
 
+       The format of UNIX data 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 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.
 
@@ -30,6 +38,9 @@ Version 1.6.3-BETA:
                  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.
+
                - '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(),